Martin's Point to close Bangor health care center
Portland-based Martin's Point Health Care plans to close its Bangor health care center after serving patients there for more than 20 years.
A Martin’s Point spokesman confirmed to the Bangor Daily News on Thursday that the center on Mount Hope Avenue would be closing, but he didn’t say when or how many employees and patients will be affected in Bangor, the only location north of Brunswick.
The nonprofit organization provides primary care and other health services to more than 70,000 patients throughout southern Maine, Bangor and Portsmouth, N.H., according to its website. It also provides health insurance for Medicare beneficiaries and military retirees and their families.
The spokesman, Steve Amendo, told the BDN that the details of transitioning primary care services out of the Bangor area are still being finalized, but the goal is to ensure there is little impact for those patients.
Martin's Point has recently expanded in southern Maine, opening a $5 million facility in Gorham in 2014. And it said this summer that it hopes to open a health care center on the site of the former Scarborough Commons to replace a location in South Portland's Knightville neighborhood
The closure won’t impact the organization's other eight health care centers in Biddeford, Brunswick, Gorham, Portland, South Portland, Falmouth and Portsmouth, N.H. The organization employs nearly 800 people.
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