Press Release

Release Date: January 16, 2008
HRCHC Contact: Communications Department
Telephone: (207) 861-3466
Email: Communications@HealthReach.org

Burton Knapp, MD Joins HealthReach Community Health Centers

Waterville-HealthReach Community Health Centers is pleased to welcome new medical provider Burton Knapp, MD to the organization. Knapp will be seeing patients at all of HealthReach’s health centers as a float provider.

Knapp earned his BA from Middlebury College in Vermont and his MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. Knapp is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.

Before moving to central Maine, Knapp practiced at Gorham Village Family Health in Gorham and held part-time faculty status at the University of Vermont. Knapp and his wife, who is also a doctor working for HealthReach, recently retired from their practices in the Portland area and moved to central Maine where their children and grandchildren live. Knapp is currently seeing patients at the Rangeley Regional Health Center and will continue seeing patients at the other HealthReach health centers.

HealthReach Community Health Centers is a system of eleven federally qualified, community-based health centers located in central and western Maine. Dedicated providers deliver high-quality, affordable healthcare to 36,000 underserved residents in over 80 rural communities. HealthReach is a private, non-profit organization with a 30-year history, funded by patient fees, grants and individual donations.