HealthReach Opens Gardiner Area High School “Tiger” Health Center

Gardiner — HealthReach is proud to announce the opening of their second school-based health center (SBHC), located at Gardiner Area High School, near the nurse’s office. The health center is set to open with the start of the school year in September. HealthReach looks forward to orienting teachers and staff to the

Cassidy Doyon, FNP

health center ahead of the school year at the upcoming teacher workshop day and meeting families at the upcoming student open house and athletic night. MSAD # 11 and the Gardiner SBHC Advisory Committee invite community members to attend an open house on November 5, alongside parent-teacher conference night at 40 W Hill Rd. in Gardiner.

Services available at Gardiner Area High School “Tiger” Health Center will reflect the same services offered at any primary care office, providing an easy-to-access alternative to a traditional office for families and staff members in need of a convenient healthcare option. Tiger Health Center will be open Tuesdays through Fridays, 7am – 3pm on open school days and will close with any school closure days.

The health center will also welcome a new clinician to HealthReach: Cassidy Doyon, FNP. Doyon earned her Family Nurse Practitioner and Bachelor of Science in Nursing degrees from Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. Doyon’s 13 years of medical experience includes pediatric healthcare and certificates in CLC, PALS, STABLE, and NRP. Her robust background in child and adolescent care will make her an excellent clinician to serve Gardiner students and staff at Tiger Health Center.

Tiger Health Center, founded in 2026, is a HealthReach School-Based Health Center — headquartered in Waterville, Maine. HealthReach Community Health Centers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating 11 family medical practices and 2 school-based health centers. The HealthReach mission is to serve the otherwise medically underserved. HealthReach delivers high-quality, accessible healthcare services, including general primary and preventative healthcare, behavioral healthcare, substance use disorder treatment, dental, and podiatric care services. To ensure access for everyone, HealthReach accepts Medicare, MaineCare, and major insurance providers, and there are no eligibility requirements to access care through HealthReach; all are welcome. An Affordable Care Program is available to both uninsured and underinsured people. Assistance is available for applications to programs that help with your healthcare and medication costs, including enrollment support for Maine’s Health Insurance Marketplace.

The above is issued in furtherance of HealthReach Community Health Centers’ federally funded health center project. In 2025, HealthReach is projected to receive $4,436,654 in federal assistance, which is estimated as constituting 12% of project costs. Of total project costs for 2025, HealthReach estimates 88% to be financed with non-governmental sources.

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