Save the date! Your attendance is requested at the annual meeting to introduce the new physician at Castine Community Health Center.

Jul 05, 2024

CCH ANNUAL MEETING: MEET DR. WARREN AND PROVIDE INPUT ON FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE IN CASTINE

The Castine Community Hospital Corporation (CCHC) is excited to announce that Dr. Gwendolyn Warren has accepted a position with Northern Light as the new physician at the Castine Health Center. Dr. Warren will begin seeing patients in October out of the Castine Health Center offices located at 102 Court St in Castine. We invite members of the surrounding community to join us on Wednesday, October 2nd at 5:00pm at the Wilson Museum in Castine for our annual meeting, where members of the public will be able to meet Dr. Warren and provide their input on the future of healthcare in Castine and the surrounding area. 

You may find yourself asking: “What is CCHC? How are they different from Northern Light? Are they part of the Town of Castine?” Allow us to introduce ourselves: The Castine Community Hospital Corporation is an independent nonprofit separate from the town of Castine founded in 1928. Our mission is to ensure physician directed care for Castine, Penobscot, Sedgwick, Brooksville, and the surrounding communities and to provide public health and education programming/outreach. We control an endowment to provide for community healthcare, which we have historically used to incentivize physicians and other healthcare workers to accept roles at the Castine Health Center and to provide for educational programming.

CCHC also owns the grounds and building where the Castine health center operates and leases the building to Northern Light, who operates the health center. At our annual meeting, we will showcase our plans to renovate the Castine health center and seek input from the community. CCHC was incorporated in 1928 and has served the healthcare needs of Castine and the surrounding community for the past century. As CCHC looks towards the next 100 years, we are committed to renovating the Castine health center to enable our partners to provide an increased level of service to Castine and the surrounding communities. For example, the health center is now set up for telemedicine appointments. We seek to make further improvements, including more regular appointment times and an increased range of services including but not limited to mental health care and physical therapy. 

We invite the public to review our plans at our annual meeting and to provide feedback so that we can better understand and respond to the needs of the community. For more information on CCHC and our annual meeting, please visit castinecommunityhealth.org (website is currently a work in progress)