MEREDA 2024 Notable Project: Seaport Community Health Center, Belfast
Photo / Courtesy of Ed Marsh, PCHC
Photo / Courtesy of Ed Marsh, PCHC
Photo / Courtesy of Ed Marsh, PCHC
Photo / Courtesy of Ed Marsh, PCHC
Photo / Courtesy of Ed Marsh, PCHC
Photo / Courtesy of Ed Marsh, PCHC
Penobscot Community Health Care’s new Seaport Community Health Center arose from a dire need to expand and no way to do so at its existing facility.
With a vision, PCHC turned to a largely vacant former MBNA Bank of America complex in Belfast. The five-building, 318,979 square foot, 142-acre campus provided the space needed.
PCHC acquired the entire campus with $9.6 million in financing from Evernorth Rural Ventures’ New Markets Tax Credit program, the Primary Care Development Corp., the Health Resources and Services Administration, PCHC itself and CapitalOne.
In one building, the makeover included creation of an exam area, behavioral health and consultation rooms; large patient lobby and reception area; staff offices, conference room, breakroom and kitchen — on a total of 35,295 square feet on the first floor. A second floor of the same square footage will be equipped for a dental practice and related services.
In the past, the health center had operated in less than 12,000 square feet elsewhere in Belfast.
The new facility enables an expanded Seaport Community Health Center to attract new providers and serve more patients, responding to a growing rural, medically underserved population.
Despite the high number of primary care practices in Waldo County, there was an unmet need for primary, mental, dental and substance use-disorder care.
As a result of the expansion Seaport Community Health projects a 35% increase in direct services at a minimum, over half of which will be for low-income people, with new outpatient infusion therapy, primary, dental, mental health and recovery and medically assisted treatment care.
PCHC’s investment invigorated the campus, laying the foundation for redevelopment of the remaining buildings and parcels, stimulating future private investment within the designated low-income community and build out of new housing and other services.
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