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Giving Voice: Politics and gratitude
By Anita Ruff, Executive Director, Oasis Free Clinics It is the week before Thanksgiving, and I have been thinking a lot about gratitude. Some of it is just the time of year. Some of it, though, is related to politics. Before you think I’m going to get political, I am...
Giving Voice: Our village
By Anita Ruff, Executive Director, Oasis Free Clinics Last week, Oasis Free Clinics turned the page on a new chapter in our almost 30-year history by celebrating the opening of our new and expanded clinic. Located at 331 Maine St. in Brunswick, our new clinic is the...
Giving Voice: How We Think About Charity
By Anita Ruff, Executive Director, Oasis Free Clinics This morning, I found myself watching a Ted Talk from 2013. These short, no-notes presentations are designed to be engaging, entertaining, and often thought-provoking. I stumbled on Dan Pallotta’s speech while idly...
Helping Our Neighbors: Max’s Story
Max first came to Oasis in January 2016. In his late 20s, Max hoped we could help him with his physical ailments. What he found at Oasis was much more than that. “You guys have made a tremendous difference in my life between curing me of Hepatitis C, fixing all my...
Giving Voice: A new understanding of Oasis
By Calla Ruff, Summer Intern, Oasis Free Clinics My mother, Anita Ruff, began her work at Oasis Free Clinics as the executive director the day after Christmas when I was in fifth grade. I began volunteering for Oasis within a few months (though voluntold might be a...
Brunswick clinic to host garden tour fundraiser
By Kristian Moravec, The Times Record Oasis Free Clinics is set to host its annual garden tour, an initiative that helps fund operations at the Brunswick-based health care provider. This year’s Brunswick in Bloom will mark the third year of fundraising through garden...
Giving Voice: The Impact of Giving Voice
By Anita Ruff, Executive Director, Oasis Free Clinics In 2018, an incredible and tenacious lady in the community, Caroline Russell, volunteered at several area nonprofits, including The Gathering Place, Tedford Housing, and Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program....
Giving Voice: At Oasis, the two constants are change and values
BY MICHELLE BARBER, Oasis Free Clinics For the past four years, I have had the privilege of being the primary medical provider at Oasis Free Clinics. I was drawn to Oasis because we have common values. I believe all people deserve access to quality health care. I...
Giving Voice: Looking Back and Forward
BY BY ANITA RUFF, Executive Director - Oasis Free Clinics It was this time four years ago that our world turned upside down.Returning home from a trip in early March 2020, I noticed a few people wearing masks on theairplane. Despite my public health training, I...
Giving Voice: The Oasis Free Clinics expansion
BY BY ANITA RUFF, Executive Director - Oasis Free Clinics At the end of January, we at Oasis Free Clinics did something groundbreaking: we kicked off the construction and renovation of our new and expanded clinic.Located at 331 Maine St., this expansion...
Free clinics in Maine are seeing an increasingly high demand for care
BY PATTY WIGHT, Maine Public At the Oasis Free Clinic in Brunswick, the rapport between nurse practitioner Bronwyn Sewell and patient Alex Vale is evident. They laugh even as Vale, who uses the pronouns they/them, describes pain they're experiencing. Vale has...
Brunswick free medical, dental clinic to expand
BY JASON CLAFFEY Times Record staff Oasis Free Clinics, which serves about 500 people in the Brunswick area, is doubling the size of its clinic with help of $833,000 in federal funding secured by lawmakers In 1992, Dr. Peter McGuire, recognizing the need for medical...
Brunswick’s Oasis Free Clinics gearing up for bigger facility, more patients
BY MIKAYLA PATEL, THE FORECASTER Renovations are beginning at the new site, which will allow Oasis to serve more uninsured medical and dental patients in the Midcoast. Renovations are underway at Oasis Free Clinics’ new Baribeau Drive facility in Brunswick, which...
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Giving Voice: A tribute to volunteers and staff, the heart of Oasis Free Clinics
BY CASEY MANGUM, OUTGOING BOARD PRESIDENT As my term serving as board president for Oasis Free Clinics comes to a close, I find myself reflecting on the extraordinary individuals who form the backbone of our organization. It’s these moments of introspection that make...
Giving Voice: Touched by Tragedy
BY ANITA RUFF, OASIS FREE CLINICS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR I have dreaded sitting down to write this week’s Giving Voice. My plan was to focus on the community reading of “Rough Sleepers” and how our community is taking care for those who experience homelessness. This book...
Giving Voice: Access to Health Care is Everyone’s Business
BY ANITA RUFF, OASIS FREE CLINICS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR In his regular weekly column in The Times Record, “From the Chamber,” my dear friend and colleague Cory King recently wrote about a serious health scare that thankfully was mitigated through early intervention and...
Rudy’s Journey: From the Harbor to Hope
Meet Rudy, a 62-year-old fisherman who has worked for 27 years in Georgetown’s harbor. Rudy’s days spent on the water and in the sun led to a spot developing on his face that he ignored. Like many fishermen, Rudy didn’t have health insurance. Even as the spot grew,...
My summer at Oasis Free Clinics
BY JACK SELIG, Oasis Free Clinics fellow Being from Arkansas, a landlocked state in the South, one might think that Maine is an alien place to me with its picturesque coastline, moose and winters in the negatives rather than a low of 30 degrees. However, since I have...
More than a garden tour
BY ANITA RUFF, Oasis Free Clinics Executive Director Like many days over the past few weeks (months?!), last Saturday morning was humid, damp and misty. A storm had rolled through the Midcoast in the wee hours, and I had been awakened to a downpour accompanied by...
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