Mid Level opening details

Position
A very busy, federally qualified community health center in Bucksport, Maine is looking for an experienced Family Nurse Practitioner. This is a full time opportunity working Monday through Friday, and every 5th Saturday 8a.m. to 12p.m. Call is 1:5. A candidate with an interest or experience in women’s health would be preferred.

Currently there are 3 full time and 1 part time physicians as well as a social worker on staff here. The hired FNP will have their own panel of patients (ranging in age from infants to seniors) as well as a dedicated support nurse. This health center has onsite lab services as well as onsite radiology. Soon there will be dental services onsite as well. The hired candidate will receive a very competitive salary and benefits package.

Hospitals
Inpatient care is provided by two area hospitals, Eastern Maine Medical Center and St. Joseph Hospital, located in Bangor, Maine.

• Eastern Maine Medical Center, located right in the city of Bangor, is Maine's second largest hospital (a 400-bed facility) and the first medical center in the state to win the "100 Top Hospitals" award (in 1999). This organization has an active medical staff of over 300 serving a greater community of some 120,000 area residents. EMMC provides specialty and intensive service to the northern two-thirds of the state.

  In 1998, EMMC became one of three designated trauma centers in the Maine Trauma System, a voluntary trauma response network involving all Maine hospitals and the state’s Emergency Medical Service.

• St. Joseph Hospital, under the umbrella of St. Joseph Healthcare, is a 112-bed acute care, not-for-profit community hospital located in Bangor, Maine. The hospital recognizes a service area exceeding 120,000 Maine residents. Founded in 1947 by the Felician Sisters of Enfield, Connecticut, St. Joseph Healthcare's mission embodies wellness promotion, and the healing of the whole person: mind, body and spirit.

  St. Joseph Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and is licensed by the Maine Department of Human Services. The hospital’s facilities were recently updated through a series of major renovations that improved virtually all patient care areas including patient rooms (80% of which are now private), a state-of-the-art emergency department and operating suites, a new MRI Center, and a new Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. Also improved were radiology, cardiology, nuclear medicine, the laboratory, lymphedema clinic, pain management, pre-admission testing, physical and occupational therapy, respiratory care and case management. The result is a modernized operation ready to provide a broad range of care services today and for years to come.

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• Recreation
  Bucksport Bay brings together the best of coastal and inland Maine. Bucksport is less than an hour’s drive to some of Maine’s most popular coastal areas like Bar Harbor, Camden, and Blue Hill. It is within 30 minutes of the shopping hubs of Bangor, Brewer, and Ellsworth. And for skiing enthusiasts, it’s only two hours from Squaw, Sunday River, and Sugarloaf Mountains. Some treasures, like the Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery, the oldest salmon hatchery in the nation is in neighboring East Orland.

  In the Spring of 2002, Bucksport broke ground for a new cultural arts center, that draws national talent to its 500-seat auditorium. The Bucksport Area Cultural Arts Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to support and promote the cultural and performing arts for Bucksport and surrounding communities.

  For the history buff in the family make sure you take an afternoon to visit Fort Knox located just a few minutes away in Prospect, Maine. Fort Knox is one of the best preserved fortifications on the New England seacoast. The Fort has many architectural features present only to itself, as well as a rich history behind its cannon batteries. When you’re done exploring at the fort, make sure and visit the newly constructed Penobscot Narrows Bridge that boasts an observation tower, rising 420 feet above sea level, which may only be accessed through the Fort. The observation tower provides a breathtaking view of the Penobscot River Valley, and is the only observatory like it in the Western Hemisphere!

  

• Schools
  The school system in Bucksport is terrific and achieves learning results that are equivalent with the best schools in the state of Maine. Students in grades K-4 attend Miles Lane School, grades 5-8 attend Bucksport Middle School, and grades 9-12 attend Bucksport High School. All three schools offer a well rounded curriculum providing student’s with classes they need to attend some of the most prestige’s colleges in the country and extra curricular options as well. These range from traditional activities such as sports, arts, and music to Bucksport High’s “School to Work” Class which recently built its own high-powered computer server.

• Economy
  From a business standpoint, a glance down Bucksport’s list of licensed businesses gives a sense of the relaxed, wholesome quality of life you can enjoy. Here, you will find all the "staples": banking, lodging, restaurants, clothing stores, a grocery market, a bookstore, a theatre, even a McDonald’s. But you’ll also see businesses you don’t see everywhere else. A saw shop. A vintage film library. An auctioneer. Farm stands. A working waterfront. A lobster co-op.

• Real Estate
  There will be a place in Bucksport or surrounding areas, that you can call home no matter what your lifestyle or budget is. You can live in a historic home in the downtown district, a country farmhouse out of town a little ways, a new home in a nice neighborhood, or buy land and construct your dream home!

• History / Fun Facts
  Colonel Buck's Cursed Tomb - The "tomb" of the town's founder, Colonel Jonathan Buck, features a mysterious stain -- the image of a woman's stocking foot or boot. The leg stain on the memorial, according to legend, came about when Colonel Buck burned a witch and her leg rolled out of the fire. His heirs tried to clean the foot off the stone and are said to have replaced the monument twice – but, the foot kept coming back! The curse was called down upon the Colonel by the deformed son of the witch. "Your Tomb shall thee bear the mark of a witch's foot, for all eternity!"

Contact: Desirea Chase, CMSR

Email: dchase@themha.org