An exciting opportunity has become available with Lakes Region Primary Care, a multi-specialty primary care practice located in Windham, Maine. The position is a full time, 4 days per week, in an office practice setting. This practice works closely with the hospitalist services at Mercy Hospital and the Maine Medical Center in Portland. You will join five board certified physicians: a Family Practitioner, Internist, Med/Peds and Pediatrician, plus a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, delivering care to residents of this suburban community. Just minutes in one direction you will be in greater Portland, and in the other you will find beautiful lakes and ponds, and true country living. The practice is located in an attractive new building. This is a fast-growing practice with average patient panels of between 1800 and 2000 per physician. The practice will be moving to the EPIC Electronic Medical Records system this summer. A competitive compensation package is offered and will include an excellent assortment of benefits.
Maine Medical Partners is the largest multi-specialty medical group in Maine. Over 100 employed physicians and 600 staff members offer a wide spectrum of primary, specialty and subspecialty care through a network of 20 locations in and near the greater Portland area. As a subsidiary of Maine Medical Center, medical staff and their patients have immediate access to this large tertiary care center offering a mix of patient-centered care and high technology medicine.
Hospital
Maine Medical Center (MMC) is a 606-bed tertiary care and teaching institution with a multi-state referral base, located in Portland, Maine. It is the largest hospital in northern New England and fills the dual role as: Maine's premier referral hospital, offering services not available elsewhere in the state, and a community hospital serving the greater Portland region.
MMC currently supports over 200 residents and fellows in 10 residencies and 7 fellowships approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Each program is the responsibility of a full-time program director and more than 500 highly qualified attending physicians serve as faculty.
The Maine Medical Center for Research focuses on research that has a direct impact on patient care, emphasizing cancer, cardiology, bone and mineral disease. While much of the research is conducted at a facility in nearby Scarborough, clinical departments within the hospital also have research programs.
The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at MMC is a hospital without walls extending to children and families all over the state access to specialized pediatric care with an emphasis on integrated care from well-child to the most advanced procedures.
MMC was rated the fourth safest hospital in the U.S. and the nursing staff was recently rated in the top 3% in the world for nursing excellence. MMC strives to maintain and improve the health of the communities it serves by: caring for the community, educating tomorrow's caregivers, and researching new ways to provide care.
Community
With a metro population of 230,000, the Greater Portland area (Portland, South Portland, Westbrook, Cape Elizabeth, Gorham, Falmouth, and Cumberland) is home to almost one quarter of Maine's total population. Portland is an old seacoast town with a population of 64,000. The Greater Portland area has more than 35 miles of trails to hike, jog or cross-country
ski. From mountains to lakes, city to country, nature to nightlife- you can find everything within a 15-mile radius. Portland is a modern city filled with galleries, one-of-kind boutiques and shops, and incredible restaurants serving everything from traditional New England clam chowder to nouveau cuisine.
Map of Portland, ME US
- Recreation
Maine’s largest city is also home to two semi-pro sports teams: Portland Sea Dogs Baseball and Portland Pirates Hockey! The Portland Jetport is a modern airport, giving you immediate access to the world – or you can drive. From Portland, Boston is a short 90 minute car ride or travel down via southern Maine’s new commuter rail service.
If you enjoy the out of doors, you’ll find many fun-filled ways to spend your leisure time in Maine. Portland is minutes away from miles of sandy beaches along the coastline. Moor your sailboat or power boat in any number of local marinas. Our downhill skiing is spectacular! From Portland, you’re just an hour’s drive from premier ski resorts. You might also enjoy other winter activities such as snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and ice fishing.
- Schools
Maine schools are outstanding! Portland and surrounding communities boast some of the finest schools in the State. You have your choice of public, catholic and private schools. Not long ago the National Education Goals Panel ranked Maine as having the best education system in America – two years in a row. Maine ranked above all other states in high-school completion rate and student performance in reading, math and science.
Mainers also value higher education. The University of Southern Maine, with campuses in Portland and nearby Gorham, is a branch of the University of Maine system offering 50 majors and more than 40 academic programs to over 11,000 enrolled students. Also in Portland, the Southern Maine Community College offering technical, career development and liberal arts courses of study, and the Maine College of Art offering courses in a variety of artistic mediums.
- Economy
The economy has shifted over the years from relying primarily on fishing, manufacturing and agriculture towards a much more service-based economy. Today, Portland is Maine's business, financial and retail capital. Most national financial services organizations with significant operations in the state have their Maine base here. You will also find major international law firms, technology based companies, import/export companies, and modern high-rise office buildings in the Greater Portland Area.
Portland is said to be the strongest small-business sector of any large metropolitan area in the United States and is the hottest small business market in which to develop a company. When compared to national and state averages, Portland has a low unemployment rate as well as higher median incomes than most other Maine communities.
- Culture
Currently, Portland stands as one of the few working waterfronts left in the United States, acting as New England’s largest tonnage seaport and second largest fishing port.
Portland’s “Old Port” is one of the most successful revitalized warehouse districts in the country. Seamlessly connected to the waterfront, the Old Port is both working waterfront and a chic shopping, dining, and entertainment district. The Old Port is also the site for the Annual U.S. Cellular Old Port Festival. This energetic event has been going on since 1973 and offers guest 10 stages of music, food and arts/crafts vendors, as well as children’s activities.
Uptown, a few blocks from the waterfront, is Portland’s secret treasure—the Arts District. With Congress Street as its spine, this once traditional shopping street has turned into a Mecca of art galleries, antique shops, and artist studios. The world class Portland Museum of Art, the Children’s Museum of Maine, the Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art, the Center for Cultural Exchange, the State Theater, the Portland Stage Company, the Center for Maine History, and the stunningly-renovated Merrill Auditorium all line Congress Street.
Walking Congress Street provides a glimpse of office buildings intermingled with historically preserved buildings. The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is the 19th century childhood home of the poet. The First Parish Church has an original cannon ball from the revolutionary war as a chandelier. Portland’s City Hall was built by Carrere and Hastings, best known for their design of the New York Public Library. And, Portland High School is the oldest standing high school in the country.
- Real Estate
You will have a range of residential lifestyle choices around the Portland area. Choose a chic apartment or townhouse or condo, a historic Victorian home in town, a modern colonial in one of several wonderful suburban-type subdivisions, a country farmhouse with some acreage, or maybe travel a few minutes out of the city to find land on which to build. Portland has been rated one of the country's best cities when it comes to raising children in a study that ranks cities for “kid friendliness” based on population, health, education, public safety, economic and environmental indicators.
- History / Fun Facts
Portland was originally called Machigonne (Great Neck) by the Native Americans who first lived there.
Portland was the first capital of the state. (In 1832 the capital was moved to Augusta.)
Portland's Deering Ice Cream Company had been in business for 121 years.
The record snowfall for Portland in one winter was 141.5 inches, in 1970-71.
The first McDonald's to open in Maine was on Saint John Street in Portland, in May of 1963.
John Ford, of Portland, won an Academy Award in 1940 for directing The Grapes of Wrath.
The Great Portland Fire was on July 4, 1866. The fire ignited during the 4th of July celebration, destroyed most of the commercial buildings in the city, half the churches and hundreds of homes. More than 10,000 people were left homeless. After this fire, Portland was rebuilt with brick and took on a Victorian appearance. Citizens began building huge Victorian mansions along Portland's (now famous) western promenade.
Neal Dow was the mayor of Portland who ran for U.S. president on the Prohibition Party ticket in 1880.
The Falmouth Gazette, printed in Portland on January 1, 1785, was the first newspaper published in Maine.
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