BANGOR, Maine — Residents will have access to a new walk-in care facility starting Nov. 26, when Sunbury Medical Associates opens its expanded facility at 133 Corporate Drive in Bangor.
“We always tried to identify the needs of the community,” Dr. Michael Bruehl said. “It has become obvious that there is a need to provide a more affordable place for patients to go to receive acute care. Sunbury wanted to give patients an option to be seen at nonclinical hours.”
Dr. Bruehl started practicing in the Orono area in 1978 and joined Sunbury in 1999. He has been seeing patients in Bangor since 2006.
Sunbury Medical Associates was formed in 1998 by several physicians who were practicing family medicine in smaller surrounding communities.
Sunbury founder Dr. Thomas Hayward noted that the goal is to maintain continuity in health care providers.
“We will have a small number of providers who work here. The walk-in care providers will [have] direct access to patients’ primary care physicians during regular hours if they were unable to get in for an appointment. [Our] continued mission is to provide quality care for our patients and the community.”
For information, call 992-0088. Sunbury Medical accepts all major health insurances, including MaineCare and Medicare.
Wow, this is great ! Always nice to hear this kind of thing.
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These health care opportunities are great to hear about, and great that they take most insurances, too bad there are so many people in the state of Maine have no access to health care because the are uninsured, and cannot afford to pay such high prices to see a doctor and wait too long until they are extremely ill before being forced to go to the emergency room. Too bad there isn’t more clinics that offer lower rates for those who are uninsured. But great to hear of service it is much needed.
I wished they would put a picture of Dr. Breuhl in the article. He’s been my doctor for almost 7 years. I write a lot of checks to Sunbury for him. I bet he’s a nice guy. I’ve never seen him, only some underpaid, overworked and sometimes woefully inexperienced nurse practicioner every time I go to Sunbury. I’ve discovered it’s best to show up with a diagnosis to help the poor young man or worman out (they have a high turnover). I guess I can’t complain about the care because they do try their very best, however I hate paying the rates for a Doctor I’ve never seen…..