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“I think we spent most of our careers checking boxes to make sure that quality ‘measures’ were met, and it didn’t give us the opportunity from our nursing background, which is very holistically based.”

— Jackie Carter, a family nurse practitioner who left Northern Light Health last month to start an independent practice in Orland with her co-worker Corinne Malenfant. The clinic is one of a growing number in Maine that takes smaller patient loads and charges a flat monthly fee instead of billing insurance.

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