WATERVILLE – Five new members have joined the HealthReach Community Health Centers Governing Board of Directors, Connie Coggins, HealthReach president and CEO recently announced.
Terry Brann is chief financial officer at MaineGeneral Health. He has been a certified public accountant since 1996 and graduated from the University of Maine in Augusta with a B.S. in accounting. His career has included leadership roles in Maine state government where he worked for 27 years.
Elmer Doucette is chief financial officer at Redington-Fairview Hospital, where he brought 40 years of financial leadership experience in healthcare including hospital, nursing homes, home health and outpatient settings.
Norman Keith Durland, a lifelong Mainer is working towards a bachelor’s degree in Human Services at University of Maine, Augusta. “I am keenly interested in the quality of health care in Maine-particularly in the arena of drug and alcohol abuse and recovery,” he said.
Bruce Harrington is a native of Maine working in engineering consulting at Energy & Resource Solutions as vice president of operations and implementation services. He earned an AS in agricultural mechanization technology and a BS in business management from the University of Maine. His management experience includes 30 years in the fields of sales, marketing, customer service, multichannel marketing, business operations and manufacturing.
Brenda Stevens is a Maine native who retired from the field of education, where she worked as teacher, principal and superintendent in western Maine over a 40-year period. She earned an undergraduate education degree and a graduate degree in education leadership at the University of Maine. She said, “Education has been my life’s work and day job_; _however, I have always felt that to be a good educator one needs to model community service for my professional children as well as my biological kids.”
In 2019, John Opperman is chair of the Governing Board of Directors, Lois Bouchard as vice chair, and Brann as secretary/treasurer.
At the last board meeting in 2018, members and staff expressed appreciation to outgoing board Mmmbers Linda Gamble, Dana Kempton, John Thiele and Jody Watson, and thanked them for their service.
HealthReach Community Health Centers is a group of eleven Federally Qualified Health Centers in central and sestern Maine. Dedicated providers deliver high quality medical and behavioral health care to citizens in more than 80 rural communities and has heatlh centers in Belgrade, Bethel, Bingham, Albion, Madison, Avon, Rangeley, Richmond, Pittsfield, Strong and Livermore Falls. It’s headquartered in Waterville.
PHOTO: The Belgrade Regional Health Center is one of 11 HealthReach Health Centers in central and western Maine. (Maureen Milliken photo)
