What’s New at Oasis
Rotary Club of Brunswick honors founder of Oasis Free Clinics
Times Record The Rotary Club of Brunswick honored Oasis Free Clinics founder Dr. Peter McGuire on April 25 with its highest recognition, the Paul Harris Fellow. Presented to a Rotarian or a member of the community who has made an outstanding contribution to the...
Giving Voice: Breathing Easy at Oasis Free Clinics
By Anita Ruff, Executive Director, Oasis Free Clinics In the 1950s and 1960s, over half of the men in the United States smoked. This was partially related to government issued cigarettes, most notably in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, when cigarettes...
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Giving Voice: Why Community Care Matters
By Anita Ruff, Executive Director, Oasis Free Clinics Boy, there is a lot going on right now. Both close to home and further afield, it is a constant swirl. Colds, flu, and norovirus have plagued our small team as have a disproportionate number of broken bones. People...
The Gift of Seeing Clearly
By Anita Ruff, Executive Director, Oasis Free Clinics Have you ever taken a moment to close your eyes and ask yourself what your life would be like if, when you opened them, everything remained dark? To have your vision gone? How would you navigate your world without...
Sweet Treats for a Sweet Cause: Scooping for Community Day at Gelato Fiasco
Date: February 11thLocation: Gelato Fiasco Looking for the perfect pre-Valentine’s Day date idea? We’ve got you covered! Join us on February 11th at Gelato Fiasco for Scooping for Community Day and enjoy a delicious treat while supporting Oasis Free Clinics. Here’s...
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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