Press Release

Release Date: August 15, 2005
HRCHC Contact: Communications Department
Telephone: (207) 861-3466
Email: Communications@HealthReach.org

Andrew Rice, MD Joins Lovejoy Health Center in Albion

(ALBION) — Lovejoy Health Center, a HealthReach Community Health Center, is pleased to welcome new provider Andrew Rice, MD to the team. Dr. Rice has joined Drs. Forrest West, Paul Forman and David Austin and Lynn Cote, FNP in providing quality health care, close-to-home, to area residents.

Dr. Rice completed his residency at the Maine Dartmouth Family Practice Residency Program. He completed his doctoral degree at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. His special areas of clinical interest include performing office procedures such as minor surgery, as well as orthopedics, pediatrics, and women’s health issues.

“I will enjoy family health care and the diversity that caring for men, women and children offers,” says Rice. “The community has been welcoming and supportive and I am excited about the opportunity to live and work in a rural community, it is a good fit for me.”

Lovejoy Health Center, located in Albion, provides primary and preventive health care services to over 5,000 area residents per year at approximately 18,000 visits. For more information or to make an appointment with Dr. Rice, please call the health center at 437-9388.

HealthReach Community Health Centers is a family of eleven federally qualified, community-based health centers and one dental center located in Central and Western Maine. Dedicated providers deliver high quality, affordable healthcare to 38,000 rural and underserved residents in over 80 communities. A private, non-profit organization with a 30-year history, HRCHC is funded by patient fees, grants and individual donations.