A trip to Uganda sheds light on Spectrum’s worldwide mission to provide equitable care. With a shared commitment to improve the health of all populations in our global community, pathologist Emily Meserve, MD, MPH, and anesthesiologist Jonathan Meserve, MD, packed up their kids and headed to Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. As managing director of Spectrum […]
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Helping Physicians Thrive – at Spectrum and in Life
National Doctors’ Day is celebrated on March 30 — but Spectrum Healthcare Partners makes it a priority to support and celebrate both new and veteran physicians all year long. We do this through several programs: • A standardized orientation program • The MENTORme physician mentor program • Company-wide Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion education (DEI) • […]
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Supporting Our Community
Spectrum’s core tenets include caring not only for patients, but also the broader communities we serve. Although our philanthropic efforts span a wide range of charitable organizations, many of our partnerships are with groups that focus on some aspect of improving healthcare, such as Maine Cancer Foundation. Spectrum has been a supporter of Maine Cancer […]
Managing Pain with a Regional Block
Have you heard of Spectrum’s Regional Block Program? It is a special, localized type of pain management that our anesthesiologists can offer to surgical patients. As you likely know, nerves carry messages of sensation from various parts of your body to your brain. This is how you feel everything from a tickle, to a shoe […]
My Cast Is Getting Removed, Now What?
Great news, you’ve been told it’s time to have your cast removed! You no longer need that area immobile and are probably ready to shower without a trash bag over the cast. Then it hits you, how do they get this thing off of me? Don’t worry, the removal of a cast is painless! When […]
Cool days call for warm dinner
Depending on where you are in the state, you are either seeing rain or snow outside of your window. Either way, cool and wet days call for a warm delicious dinner. Check out this healthy recipe for lemon and herb roasted chicken and vegetables. Ingredients: 1 pound small red-skinned potatoes, quartered 2 medium carrots, cut […]
Winter is coming! Ski safety tips
Winter is coming! For many of us that means we get to enjoy some fun, sun, and fresh air on Maine’s great ski hills (Saddleback? Fingers crossed!), but for orthopaedic surgeons it also means taking care of a lot of folks who get injured on the slopes. Dr. Jamie Kuhn has some tips to help […]