Press Release

Release Date: September 28, 2009
HRCHC Contact: Communications Department
Telephone: (207) 861-3466
Email: Communications@HealthReach.org

Bingham Area Health Center welcomes Dr. Amethyst Arceo

WATERVILLE & BINGHAM – Connie Coggins, President/CEO of HealthReach Community Health Centers welcomes Dr. Amethyst Arceo to Bingham Area Health Center’s medical staff. She will be start providing medical care to patients on October 29.

Dr. Arceo is a National Health Service Corp scholar whose medical school fees were paid by the federal government in exchange for a commitment to practice primary care at an approved site in one of the designated Health Professional Shortage Areas of the United States.

She recently completed the Eastern Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program. As part of this program, she spent time at Bingham Area Health Center completing a rotation during the summer in order to begin learning about the practice and the community.

She received her Doctorate of Osteopathic Medicine from University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (ME) in 2006, and also completed an Anatomy/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship at UNE in 2005. She graduated from Bates College (ME) in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science in Biology having spent a semester in the Center for Rainforest Studies College in Queensland, Australia. Her clinical areas of interest include preventive medicine, women's and children's health, and osteopathic manipulative medicine.

Dr. Amethyst Arceo shared her reasons for choosing to practice in Bingham: "I joined the National Health Service Corps with the goal of practicing in rural Maine. Bingham seems a friendly and welcoming community located in a beautiful area. The clinic staff members are exceptionally amicable and helpful and the health center seems well run."

"What more could I ask for?" she continued. "My predecessor has practiced in Bingham for over 25 years, so I took that as a very good sign that I would be happy in Bingham."

Dr. Arceo joins Cynthia Robertson, MD in providing medical care to over 1,800 area residents each year from many towns in Upper Kennebec Valley. These include Bingham, Caratunk, Embden, Moscow, Pleasant Ridge, Solon, The Forks, and West Forks.

In addition, Lawrence Jacoby, DMD, MPH and Jacquelyn Arsenault-Watson, RDH provide dental services to area residents. 

Bingham Area Health Center is a practice of HealthReach Community Health Centers, a system of eleven federally qualified health centers in Central and Western Maine. Dedicated providers deliver high quality health care to citizens in over 80 rural communities. To ensure access for everyone, HealthReach accepts Medicare, MaineCare and major insurances. We also offer an Affordable Care Program based on family size and income to uninsured and underinsured residents and assist patients in enrolling in programs that help pay for health care and medications. A private, non-profit organization with a 30-year history, HealthReach is funded by patient fees, grants and individual donations.