PCHC Jackman clinic gets boost from Skowhegan Savings
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Jackman Community Health Center has been awarded a grant from Skowhegan Savings Bank for needed equipment upgrades.
A grant from Skowhegan Savings Bank will allow Penobscot Community Health Care to make needed upgrades at its Jackman Community Health Center over the next five years, as it continues to develop a pilot health care program for the northern Somerset County town.
The $25,000 grant is the bank's third in Jackman and supports Bangor-based PCHC's efforts to improve health care access for the remote area. The most recent funding will be used for both equipment replacements and upgrades needed to support day-to-day operations at the clinic. The upgrades are critical for the clinic, which provides both primary care and acute walk-in services and is the only medical center within a 90-minute drive.
“This award is a shining example of how Skowhegan Savings is committed to strengthening and enhancing the communities where our patients live, work and raise their families,” Heather Blackwell, director of grants and development for PCHC, said in a news release.
Skowhegan Savings also donated $25,000 to the Jackman Community Health Center in 2017 for renovations. The banks also recently made a $10,000 donation to the Jackman Community Health Advisory Team to help lower costs for a new program that elevates medical delivery by using specially trained paramedics.
The program, a partnership between PCHC, St. Joseph Medical Center in Bangor, Scarborough-based North East Mobile Health Services and the town, is a pilot that is filling a health care access gap in Jackman.
Key to the program is the telehealth connection between the paramedics and emergency room doctors in Bangor. Among the equipment upgrades to PCHC’s Jackman clinic supported by the latest grant are a replacement server and laptops; an audiometer (for hearing tests); an aspirator suction machine and a new crash cart for emergency uses.
“We understand the ongoing necessity of supporting the need for maintaining medical care and emergency services in the greater Jackman area,” David Cyr, president and CEO of Skowhegan Savings Bank, said in the release. “Penobscot Community Health has worked hard over the years to keep the Jackman Health Center open and these services are going to ensure that local residents don’t have to travel nearly 50 miles to get immediate medical care that they need.”
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