The Boothbay Region Health Center is proud to announce the appointment of Melody Rees, a board-certified family nurse practitioner as a primary care provider. Melody will be seeing patients four days/week starting Wednesday, Oct. 5. Her office hours will be Tuesday thru Fridays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Call 633-1075 to make an appointment at our offices in the Meadow Mall.

Melody is excited to be joining our community health center. She is deeply committed to providing quality, compassionate, evidence-based care to patients and their families. She is looking forward to meeting and treating both year-round and seasonal patients of all ages.

Melody has been practicing medicine since 2010, first as an RN and then as a family nurse practitioner. She is a graduate of Simmons University School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Her clinical rotations included working at Mercy Primary Care in Falmouth, Waterville Pediatrics, Inland Primary Care in Waterville, Skyhaven Internal Medicine in Rochester, New Hampshire, Avesta Housing, where she did a special project on reducing CHF hospitalizations among residents, and at Portland Community Free Clinic. She has worked in skilled rehab at Durgin Pines, in Kittery, Maine; as a case manager at Beacon Hospice, Hospice of Southern Maine, and Compassus Hospice in Scarborough. She has handled Triage for Intermed, the largest, physician-owned primary care practice in Maine, and most recently, she has been doing home-based visits and risk assessments. And, she served as a summer camp nurse. Melody is looking forward to treating patients of all ages in our practice and will be working closely with Dr. Teel, as well as with Dr. Damon and FNP Susan Lord to provide continuity of care for our year-round and seasonal patients.

Melody is also the co-founder of a non-profit medical mission in Kenya, where she has been visiting and serving since 2011. Melody's first medical mission trip to Kenya in 2011 provided the opportunity for her to work with Kenyan nurse, Emmanuel Koti. The two went on to form a community-based organization, Tumaini Kenya, in the fall of 2013. The mission of Tumaini Kenya is to provide holistic support to children with HIV and their families in the desperately poor coastal region of Gongoni. Over the years this work has included regular distribution of food during seasons of food scarcity, parent support education, private education for sponsored children so that they can reach their full potential, homes for those most in need, clothing, household goods, medical care and oversight, covering hospital stays when needed, a goat-raising project for food and income, entrepreneurship training and small business startups, and establishing community clinics in Gongoni and Ganza. 

Please join us in welcoming Melody Rees to the Boothbay region!