Three experienced healthcare providers have joined the service team at NorthLakes Community Clinic’s new Augusta Clinic location. Behavioral Health Therapist Amanda Putnam, Family Nurse Practitioner Tina Opelt, and Family Physician Dr. Mark D. Gideonsen are now available to the Augusta community, each contributing extensive knowledge, expertise and vital health services to NorthLakes patients.
Three significant grants, totaling $415,000, have been recently awarded to NorthLakes Community Clinic to support its ongoing mission of expanding access to quality healthcare. The funding will directly address both facility and staffing needs, ensuring that NorthLakes can meet the growing demand for healthcare services in Oconto County.
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The recent expansion of staff and services at NorthLakes Community Clinic’s Clairemont Avenue location has been significantly bolstered by a $100,000 grant from the Otto Bremer Trust (OBT), which was awarded to NorthLakes in July 2024. The support from the OBT has been crucial in strengthening the clinic’s ability to provide comprehensive healthcare services to underserved populations in the Chippewa Valley.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Public Service Commission (PSC) of Wisconsin, NorthLakes Community Clinic has recently installed a state-of-the-art digital X-ray machine at its Lakewood Clinic. Arriving at the clinic over the summer, this cutting-edge equipment represents a significant advancement in patient care for the rural communities of Oconto County.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Miller-Dwan Foundation’s Van Gorden-Outreach Fund, NorthLakes Community Clinic has recently installed essential Physical Therapy equipment across its newly acquired clinics in Solon Springs and Poplar, as well as its previously established Iron River Clinic. This investment aims to provide comprehensive physical rehabilitation services to underserved, rural populations of all ages in northwestern Wisconsin.
I work with individuals seeking treatment for addiction every day, whether by self-referral or court order, and I have personally seen the harm that is done to people when they are trying to get better. Despite this desire to get well, their history of involvement in the justice system, as well as the societal stigma present even in the very facilities they reach out to, have become a barrier for them in achieving recovery. Individuals with substance use disorders need to receive evidence-based treatment instead of being sent to jail or prison because addiction is a disease that requires treatment of one’s mind, body, and spirit, and incarceration causes more harm than good.
The receipt of a generous grant from the Superior Health Foundation – which was awarded to NorthLakes Community Clinic in the fall of 2023 to support the Hurley Clinic’s Pediatric Therapies Lending Closet – is now in full effect. Support for the NorthLakes initiative has been paramount in making health resources more readily available to pediatric patients living in Gogebic County, Michigan and Iron County, Wisconsin.
NorthLakes Community Clinic is pleased to announce the addition of Taylor Goodland to its Board of Directors. Taylor Goodland is a client executive at M3 Insurance in Eau Claire. As a Federally Qualified Health Center, NorthLakes is governed by a patient-majority board of directors that reflect the communities it serves.
Sam Christman, LPC-IT, recently joined NorthLakes Community Clinic in Washburn to offer Behavioral Health Services to the surrounding community. Now available to see NorthLakes patients ages 4 and up, Christman offers care through intuitive listening and applying a trauma-informed lens.
The team of Pediatric Therapists at NorthLakes Community Clinic is excited to add Melissa Long, MS, CCC-SLP, IMH-E®, to their Rice Lake Clinic team. Having over 20 years of experience collaborating with families and growing her specialties in early childhood development, Melissa Long brings both knowledge and expertise to her Speech Language Pathologist role.
NorthLakes Community Clinic is expanding chiropractic care services at multiple clinic locations after two highly experienced chiropractors joined their care team last month. Cumberland Chiropractic Clinic closed in July, allowing chiropractors Brenda Reidt, DC, and Jim Reidt, DC, to join the NorthLakes team in Cumberland, Hayward and Minong.