Northern Light Health works with out-of-state providers to expand rural care

By Brianna Bush  Northern Light Health is expanding access to rural health care by bringing out-of-state physician assistant students to Maine. In 2023, Northern Light Health launched a collaboration with the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, one of the country’s oldest historically Black colleges and universities. It’s all part of an initiative to give students the opportunity to complete their clinical rotations at three health locations in Maine. “I think that it is important that everyone has access to quality care,” Katie Bandstra, a physician assistant at Northern Light Health, said. Bandstra, a former physician assistant student, took a leap of

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