Boothbay Region Health Center

Primary Care Health Center serving patients on the Boothbay, Maine peninsula and beyond

Boothbay Region Health Center
185 Townsend Ave • Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538 Phone: (207) 633-1075  • Fax: (877) 492-1491

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Health Center takes on Alzheimer’s disease

Photo Credit: Jenny Bennett, Boothbay Register
Dr. Allan Teel

This article, written by Jenny Bennett, appeared in the Boothbay Register on the 26th of February, 2020.

“We live in the oldest per capita county in the oldest per capita State of the Union,”said Dr. Allan Teel of Boothbay Region Health Center. “Aging matters around here and there’s a desperate need to pay attention to the things that make a difference.”

Due to this, Teel and the board of the non-profit health center have embarked on a yearlong research program aimed at reducing or reversing cognitive decline. With the help of 30 patients, the program will be based on research conducted by Dr. Dale Bredesen and described in his book “The End of Alzheimer’s.” 

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As a community we can:

1. Take local control of our primary health service.

2. Establish a patient-driven primary care practice model

3. Increase access and use primary health care services appropriately.

4. Make both individual and community-wide choices that will result in improved health status.

1. Get a higher percentage of the population into an ongoing relationship with a primary care provider.

2. Reduce perhaps by half the number of unnecessary Emergency Department and Urgent Care visits.

3. Achieve a demonstrable improvement in the health status of the community.