ALBION—The staff at Lovejoy Health Center will be welcoming Brandy
LeClair, clinical social worker, to the practice this winter. With the addition
of Brandy to the team, the practice is expanding its counseling services as
patients have been pleased with the opportunity to work on issues such as
managing a chronic condition and other life stressors and crises right at the
health center. Brandy brings experience in outpatient, community and
residential social work.
Brandy obtained both her undergraduate and graduate degrees in
social work at the University of Southern Maine. Her areas of expertise include
children and adolescent individual and group therapy.
Brandy recently shared, “I have decided to join the team at
Lovejoy due to my passion for holistic care. Lovejoy provides an
environment to combine medical and social work, which has great benefits
for patients.”
Brandy will be joining clinical social worker Deb Daigle as well
as physicians Dean Chamberlain and David Austin, physician assistant Bobby
Keith, family nurse practitioners Kaitlynn Read and Keiko Kurita, and
psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner Marta Hall.
Lovejoy Health Center is part of HealthReach Community Health
Centers, a group of eleven Federally Qualified Health Centers in Central and
Western Maine. Dedicated providers deliver high quality medical and behavioral
health care to citizens in over 80 rural communities. To ensure access to
everyone, HealthReach accepts Medicare, MaineCare and major insurances. In
addition, an Affordable Care Program is available to uninsured and underinsured
residents as well as assistance with applications for programs that help with
the cost of health care and medications including the Health Insurance
Marketplace.
A
private non-profit with a 45-year history, HealthReach is funded by patient
fees, grants and by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award
totaling $4,580,070 with 82.5 percent financed with non-governmental sources.
The contents are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the
official views of, nor are an endorsement by, the HRSA, HHS or the U.S.
Government.
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