Kelly Barton, President of Maine Behavioral Healthcare

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Today’s guest is Kelly Barton, President of Maine Behavioral Healthcare, part of the MaineHealth System. Maine Behavioral Healthcare offers a full spectrum of behavioral health care, from community-based counseling and rehabilitation to a dedicated behavioral health hospital.

In this podcast we talk about Kelly’s career journey starting as a unit coordinator in the emergency department through leadership roles in a variety of organizations. We discuss some of the challenges facing behavioral health providers currently, and we close on a discussion of leadership.

Links discussed on this podcast:

* Maine Behavioral Healthcare https://www.mainehealth.org/maine-behavioral-healthcare

* MaineHealth https://www.mainehealth.org/

* Community Health Network https://www.ecommunity.com/

* Gundersen Health System https://www.gundersenhealth.org/

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