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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER MAY 2013
MMCC Business to Business Showcase – A Success! By Bruce Harrington, Chair of the B2B Planning Committee expanding into or within our region. Perhaps most important in a successful products and services, and hundreds of busi- showcase is the foot traffic. The focus of the ness people made the 2013 MMCC Business showcase was on business to business – busito Business Showcase the most successful ness products and services for businesses and yet! The changes made to the showcase this business people. We had hundreds of visitors year helped to enhance what was already a to the showcase throughout the afternoon – great event in the Mid-Maine region. The almost all of whom came with a business most noticeable change was in the location card and were admitted for free. This means and size. The showcase was held at Colby that almost everyone who attended the showCollege in the field house for the first time, case fit the target market. In fact, many of our which helped to alleviate some space and vendors reported doing business at the show parking issues that had been felt in the past. or setting up follow-up meetings with people The new location supported 146 booths this who visited their booths to discuss doing year, up from 120 in 2012, with room to add some business. One vendor told me that another 30 or so as the event grows. she was able to set more appointments with Businesses could find everything needed to potential clients that visited her booth be successful – from CPA’s, attorneys, and throughout the day than she expected – bankers, to people who could design and enough to certainly justify her coming back print marketing materials, set up and mainto the showcase as a vendor again next tain complex computer and phone networks, year. or people who could find the people needed Feedback received from attendees was to staff the business. In addition, several local also very positive. I spoke to the owner of a colleges were represented to help train our new business that was able to make several workforce, and a number of economic devel- key connections to help grow her business. opment organizations were at the showcase Another attendee told me about marketing to help businesses who were interested in help that he needed and was able to find at
The new location, a great cross-section of
Highlights in this Issue: P. 2: From the President’s Chair P. 2: Network Security P. 4: Member Events Calendar P. 6: Small Business Tips P. 8: Biz Spotlight: Lakewood Continuing Care one of our vendors’ booths. The Colby reception that followed consisted of great food and great networking to end the night. This was a great event for chamber members and business people looking to do business with our members. We have started planning for next year’s event and are excited about the possibilities. If you are interested in being involved in the planning, please contact Christian Savage at the Mid-Maine Chamber office.
The 2013 B2B Showcase at Colby College.
How to Utilize Your Chamber Membership By Shawn Little ship opportunities in such publications as the InTouch newsletter, Living Better in MidHere are a few things you can do to take full Maine Guide Book Map & Guide, and the advantage of your chamber membership. Community Connection. Use the People Let's start with marketing opportunities. News, Member News and Member Calendar Fill out your web page. Every member has sections of the InTouch Newsletter to inform a web page where you can enter your contact fellow members of important events and information, upload a photo or logo, provide changes in your firm. links to your email and web site, directions, The chamber organizes many events durcontact person, and a brief description of ing the year that you can sponsor as well, your business in the “about us” section. The such as the Taste of Greater Waterville and Chamber website gets hundreds of thousands the Golf Classic. Call or email the office to of hits each year, so please keep your page up find out how. Or better yet, visit in person to date. and drop off some business cards and broThere are many advertising and sponsor- chures to display.
So, you've joined the Chamber. Now what?
Continue to spread the word, and save a few bucks too by participating in the Chamber Advantage Discount Program. This free program is available for all chamber members; just present your Chamber Advantage Discount Card to participating businesses to receive the discount. Participating in the gift certificate program is also free. Both of these programs are great ways to encourage people to shop locally and get word out about your business. Continued on Page 5
50 ELM STREET, WATERVILLE, ME 04901 • TEL: (207) 873-3315 • FAX: (207) 877-0087 info@midmainechamber.com • www.midmainechamber.com Brad Fisher, Chair of the Board • Kimberly N. Lindlof, President & CEO
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As Memorial Day approaches to kick off the summer tourism season, let me tell you about the direct marketing dollars that the Bowdoin Kennebec Valley Tourism CounPhotography cil (KVTC), on which I sit, has allocated to 4 local non-profit entities in our region to promote their initiatives to tourists. First let me say that you must be a member in good standing of KVTC in order to apply for the marketing partnership program. So these four entities: Waterville Main Street, Waterville Opera House, Maine International Film Festival (MIFF) and the Taste of Greater Waterville (MMCC) paid a combined total of $800 in dues and gained a gross total of $6,325.00 in marketing funds for our region! A recent Maine Arts Commission study estimates a $750,000 economic impact over the ten days of MIFF – extraordinary! Please be mindful of the tourist entering our region and contributing to our local economy. If your employees need a free, quick and easy tutorial to hone their customer service skills, go to www.welcomeMEtraining.com to take the online tutorial. It’s easy and each person who completes it can print off a certificate to post at your workplace. I recommend taking the hour to complete it. As always, the greater Waterville area will be filled with fun things to do this summer. Please keep an eye on our Web site calendar at www.midmainechamber.com, and if you have any events, please feel free to add them -they’re a member benefit!
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Pardon me…but your Network is showing! By Scott MacDonald How much would a cyber-attack cost your company?
What if I were to bet you $188,000 that I could break into your network in 5 minutes, would you take that bet? Statistics show us that I’d likely win over 70 percent of the time. In fact, according to a 2012 nationwide study by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance, 71 percent of small businesses are dependent on the internet for daily operations. Yet almost half believe that data hacks are ‘isolated incidents’ that won’t impact their business. But the horrific truth is that cyberattacks cost small and medium sized businesses an average of $188,242 and almost twothirds of victimized companies are forced out of business within six months of being attacked! We’ve all heard the horror stories and in fact probably know someone in the area that has been hacked or works at a company that has had a breach. Let me bring this even closer to home and ask each of you for your consideration to the following: The majority of personal and small business routers used today are branded either Linksys or Netgear. Now, most of us have what we feel is a secure password on our router and someone would have to crack that code to get any kind of access. The problem is this… I DON’T NEED YOUR PASSWORD TO HACK YOU! Just typing the standard IP address 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 into my browser, I now have access to your router interface. If I were to see it’s a Linksys router, I would simply log in with NO USERNAME and the password ‘admin’. So what could I do now? Well, I could listen in on all of your browsing sessions and see everything you’re entering on, say, your banking site. Continued on Page 3
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Spring Clean-Up: Universal Waste Solutions organizations looking to dispose of universal waste items. to light bulbs, nearly all Because of the nature of universal wastes, organizations use – and as well as to comply with governmental regutherefore eventually dislation, it is important to understand how and pose of – items classified as universal waste. where to properly dispose of these items. UniWhile the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce versal wastes include: has offered a universal waste collection day in Electronic devices and appliances, includyears past, this member service has become ing computers and computer peripherals, unnecessary as several Mid-Maine Chamber televisions, microwaves, etc. members now offer this important service to Certain batteries, including button cells, businesses and non-profits in our region. This lithium ion, alkaline with mercury, and year, we will instead be providing information others on the resources available to businesses and Cathode ray tubes, or CRTs Certain lamps, including HID and fluoresContinued from page 2 cent bulbs, both coated and uncoated Mercury devices, including thermometers I could also change the DNS servers on Ballasts, both polychlorinated biphenyl the network to redirect you to identity and non-PCB, transformers, and capacitheft websites. Basically, once this opentors ing is found the hacker is as good as in The following Mid-Maine Chamber memyour company’s front door scouring evebers provide universal waste disposal and rerything from passwords to banking inforcycling services to businesses specifically. mation, etc. Still not convinced? Well, Check with your chosen facility beforehand when’s the last time that you’ve gotten an for specific guidelines on universal waste, as email from a friend that looked like this: well as fees associated with its disposal. “Your UPS package couldn’t be delivered, Click Here to track UPS.” Or perhaps an Central Maine Disposal email from your friend that says, “you 6 Gerald Terrace won’t believe this, Click here to check it Fairfield, ME 04937 out… xytefhjnxyt.” Just by opening www.centralmainedisposal.com these emails, you could very possibly give Contact: (207) 872-8257 hackers access to your internal network. Wastes accepted: Electronics such as televiMy strong recommendation for those sions and computers. of you who haven’t changed your router password; Put down this article and Skills, Inc. Recycling change it immediately! If you feel you 60 Industrial Street need additional information, I’d strongly Waterville, ME 04901 recommend you talk to a technology comwww.skillsrecycling.com pany with expertise in this field. Contact: (207) 877-0522 This article was written by Scott MacWastes accepted: Computers, servers, laptops, Donald, Partner of Maine Technology peripherals, monitors, and networking and Group. telecommunications electronics.
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Home Depot 60 Waterville Commons Drive Waterville, ME 04901 www.homedepot.com Contact: (207) 873-9299 Wastes accepted: Compact fluorescent bulbs, rechargeable batteries, and cell phones. OneSteel Maine 25 Ayer Street Oakland, ME 04963 www.onesteelusa.com Contact: (207) 465-2212 Wastes accepted: Metal-based appliances. Pine Tree Waste, Inc. 3 Robert LaFleur Road Waterville, ME 04901 www.casella.com Contact: (800) 639-6205 Wastes accepted: Lamps, PCB ballasts, batteries, CRTs, mercury thermometers, mercury thermostats, mercury devices, and electronics. eWaste Recycling Solutions 100 Bark Mulch Drive Auburn, ME 04210 www.ewastemaine.com Contact: Dean Smith at (207) 841-2025 or smith@ewastemaine.com Wastes accepted: Cathode ray tubes (CRTs) and electronics. As you tackle this year’s spring cleaning, make use of the services provided by your fellow Chamber members! More information on universal waste and its disposal can be found at www.maine.gov/dep/hazardouswaste.
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May 1: KVCOG is hosting a FREE Workshop regarding “Current Use” Property Tax Programs for Farm and Woodlot Owners and their Communities from the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Held at KVCOG, 17 Main Street, Fairfield from 5:30-7:30PM. FMI: Joel Greenwood at KVCOG, 453-4258 Ext – 219 or jgreenwood@kvcog.org. May 3-5: In December of 2012, the Maine Film Center, presenters of the annual Maine International Film Festival, purchased Waterville’s Railroad Square Cinema with the goal of consolidating the community’s unique film resources and expanding film education and exhibition programs. In order to present its vision to the community, the Maine Film Center will be hosting a special Premiere Weekend at Railroad Square Cinema. FMI: www.mainefilmcenter.org. May 4: Somerset Stone Center hosts its 7th Annual Open House from 8AM-4PM at its new location, 1078 Kennedy Memorial Drive, Oakland. Receive 10% off any regular priced items, huge discounts on clearance items, food, prizes, and much more! May 6: Small Steps. Big Rewards program from 6-7:30PM at the Medical Arts Conference Room, Inland Hospital. Type 2 diabetes and other related health problems can be prevented or delayed through lifestyle changes that work for you. Take the first step today and it’ll help you develop a game plan for better health. FMI: 861-3392. May 7: Maine Active Communities and Trails Conference put on by Inland Hospital in downtown Waterville. This full day conference offers a keynote and 24 sessions providing a full spectrum of information about the ways our communities can promote active healthy lifestyles, increase physical activity,
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improve health and benefit local economies. Advanced registration is strongly encouraged. FMI: click on the Calendar of Events link at May 18: 2nd Annual Benton Alewife Festival www.healthymainepartnerships.org or from 10AM-9PM. This is a day-long celebradoug.beck@maine.gov. tion of Benton’s alewife fishery with a familyoriented fun day at various locations throughMay 9: Mainebiz will host a reception from out the town. FMI: www.bentonmaine.info. 5-7PM at the Governor Hill Mansion in Augusta to honor its 2013 Maine Business Lead- May 18: Active Agers Talent Show, presenters of the Year. FMI and to register: ed by Spectrum Generations and the Univerwww.mainebiz.biz/event/bloy2013. sity of Maine at Augusta Senior College, from 2-4PM at Jewett Hall, University of Maine at May 10 & 11: 119th Commencement Week- Augusta. Proceeds will benefit the Spectrum end at Thomas College. On the 10th all gradu- Generations Meals on Wheels Program. FMI: ates and their families are invited to the 2013 Lynda Johnson at 626-7777 or class reception on the Ayotte Audiljohnson@spectrumgenerations.org. torium lawn at 5:15PM. On the 11th the commencement is at the Harold May 21: Inaugural meeting of the Kennebec Alfond Athletic Center at 1PM. Volunteers Managers Peer-To-Peer Network FMI: www.thomas.edu/commencement. group sponsored by Spectrum Generations and HealthReach at the LearnMay 11: Pediatric Orthopedic & Burn Injury ing Gallery, Augusta City CenScreening Clinic, 9AM-noon at Inland Hos- ter, 16 Cony Street, 9-11AM. pital. Inland is proud to partner with Kora FMI & to RSVP: Jamie Ribisi-Braley at 620Shriners to offer a free pediatric screening 1677 or jbraley@spectrumgenerations.org. clinic for conditions that can be treated at a Shriners Hospital for Children at no cost to May 31: 13th Annual Downtown Conference the family. No appointment necesand Downtown Achievement Awards, a prosary; FMI: www.korashriners.org or gram of the Maine Development FoundaPaul Bacon at 465-2680. tion. Held at Point Lookout, Northport and Downtown Belfast from 8AM-5PM. FMI: May 15: Town of Pittsfield Annual Regional www.mdf.org. Job Fair from 3:30-6:30PM at the Warsaw Middle School gym and cafeteria, 167 School Legislation Tracker Street, Pittsfield. This event is free to attend. Concerned about the workings of If you’re looking for employees, be sure to state government? Want to keep register for a table today! FMI: Kathryn Ruth, track of legislation during the 126th 487-3136, townmanager@pittsfield.org, or Legislature’s First Regular session? www.pittsfield.org. The State’s Web site let’s you do just that. Track the progress and schedulMay 17: Maine Development Foundation’s ing online at: Leadership Unplugged series, “Dangerous maine.gov/legis/lio/publications.htm Convictions: What’s Really Wrong with the
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Chamber members enjoy many networking opportunities. Monthly Business Breakfasts and Business After Hours (BAH) give you the chance to meet and mingle with fellow business owners and professionals. While at any BAH enjoy some good food, tell us all about your business and maybe even win a door prize. Other good networking events include the Annual Awards and Super Raffle Dinners, the Chamber Golf Classic and the Business to Business Showcase. You can continue your networking efforts and take a leadership role by serving on one of our chamber's committees. You may have some great ideas on how to help us improve the local business climate. Share them with us, and help us all move forward. For more information on the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce, call 8733315 or email biz.dev@midmainechamber.com.
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From Left to Right: Russ Drechsel, Jussi Peitonen (both from UPM, parent company of Madison Paper), Peter Garrett (Kennebec Messalonskee Trails), Kimberly Lindlof (MMCC) and Ted Helberg (Acadia Hospital). Photo courtesy of Eric Yahn Photography. This was a walk-through of the Rotary Centennial Trail before Madison Paper and Hydro Kennebec generously gave land and trail access to complete the East Kennebec Trail route.
A big congratulations to Maine Academy of Natural Sciences teacher Emily Gribben for being recognized as teacher of the month by Townsquare Media’s B98.5 radio personalities Sharon Buck and Randy McCoy. Emily was nominated secretly by her student Kayla McKenney.
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Marilyn Geroux, who most recently served as the U.S. Small Business Administration's deputy district director in Maine, has been named director. Congratulations, Marilyn! Richard D. O’Connor, Board Chairman of Kennebec Savings Bank, recently announced the election of Mary A. Denison, Esq. to the Bank’s board of trustees, filling a vacancy left by the late Peter Dawson, who held the position for 35 years. Mary was also named a director to the Kennebec Savings Bank Foundation. For National Volunteer Month, Spectrum Generations has nominated two of its outstanding volunteers for the Governor’s Awards for Service and Volunteerism: John Eckert and Laura Baker. Kennebec Electric and Lighting would like to welcome Jan Burns as the newest member of its sales staff. Sara Burns, President and CEO of Central Maine Power Co. has been honored by Mainebiz for the 2013 Maine Business Leaders of the Year in the large company category. Congratulations!
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web. More and more professional web applications are attracting users by offering a free entry level package allowing the small business user access to a subset of features, or limited usage. Because these sites hope to turn you into a paying customer one day, you also get a professional level of service. The following tools are considered some of the best free web apps available: MailChimp, EventBrite, Weebly, Hootsuite, and Doodle.
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MailChimp is a terrific application for maintaining a mailing list. MailChimp includes easy to use interfaces to: add a sign up form to your website; allow people to unsubscribe easily; customize emails; schedule email campaigns for a particular time; and subdivide your lists to target specific people. You can send 12,000 emails a month to a list of up to 2,000 subscribers with MailChimp’s free plan. http:// mailchimp.com/ Eventbrite gives you all the online tools you need to bring people together for an event and sell tickets. Eventbrite is completely free to use if you are not charging for your tickets and they charge a percentage (which can be either deducted from your revenue or charged through to the ticket buyer, as you prefer) on paid-for tickets. http://www.eventbrite.com/ Weebly has an easy, drag & drop interface to create your own website. It's free, powerful, and professional. Weebly has been named one of TIME's 50 Best Websites. http://www.weebly.com/ HootSuite enhances your social media management. HootSuite is a web and mobile social media dashboard that helps individuals and organizations spread messages, monitor conversations and track results across multiple networks. http://hootsuite.com/ Doodle radically simplifies the process of scheduling events, whether they’re board or team meetings, dinners with friends, reunions, weekend trips, or anything else. The key to Doodle is simplicity; it simply brings people together. Doodle is free and doesn’t require registration by either the initiator or the participants of a meeting poll. http://www.doodle.com/ Tammy Rabideau is Business & Career Center Coordinator at the Waterville Public Library. FMI: 680.2611, trabideau@watervillelibrary.org, http://www.facebook.com/wplbcc, http://www.watervillelibrary.org/departments/business/.
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Upcoming Events May 2: Business Breakfast Series 7:15-9 AM Thomas College Getting the Attention of the Media in the Digital Age Getting the attention of the news media has changed over the past 10 to 15 years with the onset of social networking. Maine's "PR Maven," Nancy Marshall, will talk about how your organization can leverage the power of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and even YouTube to connect with the media and suggest story ideas. May 15: Business After Hours 5:30-7 PM MacKenzie Landscaping 372 Augusta Road, Winslow This is a great way to mix and mingle with other business professionals! June 3: Chamber Golf Classic Natanis Golf Course 11AM Shotgun Start The Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce invites you to participate in the 2013 Chamber Golf Classic, the most prize-laden tournament in central Maine!
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ADVENTURE DAY CAMPS at L.C. Bates Museum. Enroll your children this summer in its hands-on, interactive day programs. Children will learn about fascinating topics through active encounters that spark curiosity and creativity. Each program is from 9AM-noon. Sign up soon to save a spot!
eview Restaurant of St. Agatha; Cory LaPlante of Northern Maine Prosthetics; Fiore, LLC, Bar Harbor & Rockland; Allagash International, Inc., Portland; Fred Lebel of Maine Heritage Weavers, Inc., Kennebec Savings Bank announced plans to Lewiston; Pack Baskets of Maine, Orrington; expand its electronic banking center network and Dennis LaJoie of Community Concepts to a new Augusta location on Civic Center Finance Corporation, Lewiston! Drive. Andrew E. Silsby, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Business Answers, an online service designed KSB, said plans are to construct a similar to make it easier to start and conduct business project to the community showpiece built in in the State of Maine and provided by the Manchester in 2005, KSB anytime, which has Maine DECD, has seen tremendous growth become a national model for tellerless bank- since 2010. Updated in 2011 as part ing. of Governor LePage's effort to simplify doing business in the state, Central Maine Disposal is now Business Answers helps individuals offering Septic Pumping, Service, determine the business licenses and and Repair as well as Certified permits they need to start a business Septic Inspections and Portable Toilet Rentals. If you or someone you know David Alexander, Grand Knight of the Father is in need of any of these services, please John Anderson Council #11543 of St. Mikeep CMD in mind. It looks forward to serchael Parish in Augusta, donated a portion of vicing your septic and, as always, your trash the proceeds from the Knights of Columbus needs! FMI: 872-8257. “Tootsie Roll” fundraisers to Spectrum Generations Cohen Center Adult DayBreak ProWarren’s Office Supplies has moved to a gram in Hallowell. new location at 329 Jagger Mill Road in Sanford, 04073. The Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance announced that it has been awarded a Oakhurst Dairy launched its "Keep $75,000 grant from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Your Milk in Maine" marketing cam- Service’s North American Wetland Conserpaign, displaying a video profiling vation Act small grant program. The grant two Maine dairy families on its web- will be used for habitat restoration in Great site at keepyourmilkinmaine.com. Meadow Stream and the surrounding wetThe campaign, launched in response to Dean land, as well as for habitat restoration and Foods’ recent decision to move its bottling protection in the marsh at the southern end of operations out of state, encourages consumers Messalonskee Lake. to keep their dairy dollars in-state. Hardy Girls Healthy Women held the annuThe U.S. Small Business Administration al Girls Rock! Weekend in April. The event announced the 2013 SBA Award Winners. was a huge success, with over 450 particiCongratulations to this year’s honorees: Lak- pants over the weekend, including more than
200 girls in attendance at the 15th Annual Girls Unlimited Conference. As an IBM Premier Business Partner, Oxford Networks recently attended the 2013 IBM PartnerWorld conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The theme of the conference was Leadership on a Smarter Planet, focusing on how to provide solutions to and resources for customers’ changing technology needs. FMI: www.ibm.com/smarterplanet. The Bangor Savings Bank Foundation announced the winners of its Community Matters More grant-making initiative, which allocates $100,000 to 68 different non-profit organizations. The organization from each of eight regions receiving the most votes from the public will receive $5,000 each, and the Foundation will award an addition $1,000 each to 60 other organizations. Congratulations to all the organizations receiving grants! Reynolds Custom Woodworks is proud to announce the opening of its new showroom at 552 China Rd. in Winslow. The showroom features kitchen displays built in its custom cabinet shop, stock kitchens from Medallion Cabinetry, and granite countertops. Reynolds Custom Woodworks has kitchen cabinet packages for all budgets. FMI: Kris, 649-3764 or www.CustomCabinetPro.com. Kennebec Valley Community College is launching new programs in sustainable agriculture, with the 120-acre farm at KVCC's new Harold Alfond Campus in Hinckley becoming home to a cluster of new sustainable agriculture programs beginning this coming fall. The college will initially offer associate degrees in sustainable agriculture and culinary arts and plans to introduce one-year certificate options in 2014.
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bed facility comprised of a 25 bed skilled rehabilitation unit, a 32 bed secure Dementia/ Alzheimer's unit, and a 48 bed Long Term Care unit. It is located on the Inland Hospital campus on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Waterville. Our skilled rehabilitation unit has a 25 bed capacity and can take care of a multitude of acute medical needs. From total joint replacements to recovery from a stroke or heart attack, the rehabilitation staff at Lakewood will get you back on your feet and back home. One of our success stories is a woman named Sally Millett, who went from being completely bed ridden due to a complicated leg infection to walking and wearing shoes for the first time in a month. Sally says, “I was not ready to throw in the towel and Lakewood gave me the support and encouragement I needed to get back home and feel that I could be successful.” Our skilled rehabilitation unit is also home to outpatient therapy. This is to ensure conti-
nuity of care once a person completes skilled rehab and goes home. They will come back to Lakewood on an outpatient basis and work with the same therapists who worked with them on day one of their inpatient stay. Moonlight Bay, is our secure Dementia/ Alzheimer's Unit. This unit houses up to 32 residents and is a secure unit where residents can wander safely at their leisure. The focus on this unit is to reduce the usage of psycho-
is homelike and everyone is considered family, even our three resident chickens that have a home outside and are cared for by both residents and staff. Memory Lane is our Long Term Care unit and is home to 48 residents. When a person is no longer able to live independently at home, Memory Lane is an excellent option. Our dedicated staff works on an individual basis to develop a personalized care plan to meet each resident’s needs. Activities staff coordinate activities and community outings and focus on enriching resident’s lives. An in house beauty salon is available, and a barber makes his rounds as well. Lakewood has an in house chapel for spiritual or religious tropic medications and Lakewood has recent- needs, as well as local chaplains that will ly been recognized as having the lowest use come and visit when requested. of psychotropic medication in the state. The Lakewood Continuing Care Center is an reason for this is a behavior focused apaffiliate of Inland Hospital and part of the proach, where each resident’s individuality is EMHS system. If you would like a tour of recognized and a plan is developed on the Lakewood or would like more information, best way to work with each resident on an call 207-873-5125 or visit our website at individual basis. The atmosphere on this unit www.lakewoodcare.org.
Have some news you would like to share? Submit a short announcement to the Chamber office by the 3rd Friday of the prior month. Inserts are also available for $125 per month. Call 873-3315 or email info@midmainechamber.com. Disclaimer: The Mid-Maine Chamber’s InTouch newsletter is published monthly as a benefit to members and affiliates. All member news is compiled and submitted solely by our members; therefore, we reserve the right to omit and/or edit as appropriate, and cannot guarantee complete accuracy of all announcements. Sponsorship inserts do not necessarily reflect the position of the Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce.