WATERVILLE—The staff at HealthReach Community Health Centers will
welcome Susan Chase, PMHNP to its three health centers in Albion, Coopers Mills
and Richmond this year. Susan is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
who obtained both a Master of Science in
Psychiatric Nursing and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at the at the
University of Southern Maine. Additionally, she obtained Post Master
Certificates in Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Studies and
Child/Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing at Husson College, ME. She brings fourteen
years of local experience in psychiatric nursing settings.
Susan recently shared, “I have always believed that in order to
achieve true health and wellness, a person's mind and body must work in harmony
and cannot be healed one without the other. I look forward to joining the staff
at HealthReach and practicing with like-minded professionals in an
integrated model of care that values mental wellness and understands the
importance of treating individuals as a whole.”
Susan will be working at
three HealthReach practices together with primary care and behavioral health
clinicians to provide face-to-face and tele-video medication management visits to
patients. Responsibilities include psychiatric evaluation and treatment, as
well as consultations and collaboration with health center staff and patients
to develop treatment plans.
HealthReach is comprised
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
healthcare and medications, including the Health Insurance Marketplace.
A private, non-profit
with a 46-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 a an award totaling $4,815,606 with 82.2 percent financed with non-governmental
sources. The contents are those of the author and do not necessarily represent
the official views of, nor an endorsement by, the HRSA, HHS or the U.S.
Government.
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