What’s New at Oasis
Giving Voice: On grief and loss
On Loss and Grief by Anita Ruff, Executive Director I have been thinking about loss and grief a lot lately. Too much, if I’m being honest, but in my defense, the circumstances of our world and community lend themselves to these kinds of thoughts. When I add in my own...
Giving Voice: New dentist is making big difference at Oasis
When we temporarily closed the dental clinic in March, we understood the profound impact it would have on our patients’ oral health. Most of our patients have moderate to severe dental issues, requiring several visits to address the multiple issues that have impacted...
Virtual Cooking Classes & Fundraiser
Some of Maine’s best chefs are raising money for our free medical, dental and prescription services, and we hope you will join them! It is going to be a long winter, and we thought this would be a fun way to bring people together through the joy of cooking while...
Giving Voice: 25 years of changing lives and strengthening community
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Oasis Free Clinics becoming a non-profit free medical clinic in our community. We scheduled a gala to honor those who have served our patients for September. Our board of directors had recently revised our mission, vision and...
Giving Voice: Chance Encounters Change Lives
Those of us who have experienced cancer know firsthand the havoc it can cause in life. This is where I found myself in 2007, not too long after being diagnosed with stage three non-Hodgkin lymphoma. For the next few years, my doctors’ appointments and treatments...
Giving Voice: How I Found This Oasis
Growing up in the Midwest, I belonged to a family and close-knit community who eschewed health insurance. This was largely for religious reasons. The church we belonged to believed that any “thought for the morrow” was...
Oasis Free Clinics’ Response to Covid-19
We have had the opportunity to reflect on our administrative and clinical operations during this situation and have discovered there are different ways in which we can both operate our non-profit and deliver care. This includes telework and...
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