PATTEN, Maine — Rose Fuchs, MD, a board-certified family medicine physician, is starting a private practice in family medicine opening March 1, 2019, in Patten.
Dr. Fuchs’s new practice is Cornerstone Family Practice and is located at 17 Founders St., also known as the Milliken Medical Center and Dr. Ronald Blum’s past practice.
Most recently practicing at the Katahdin Valley Health Center in Patten for the past five years, Dr. Fuchs will continue to care for infants, children, adolescents and adults, as well as residents of the Gardiner Health Care Facility and Madigan Estates Nursing Home.
She is a full-scope family medicine physician who also performs minor surgical procedures including skin biopsies, laceration repair, drainage of abscesses, casting and splinting, circumcision, and joint and trigger point injections.
She earned a Bachelor of Nursing degree in Hawaii prior to graduating from the Medical College of Georgia with the degree of medical doctor. She completed her family medicine residency training at the Atlanta Medical Center before starting practice in Georgia. She also served as a faculty physician at the residency program after graduation, earning a Teacher of the Year Award.
Enamored of Southern Aroostook County, she relocated here in 2014, in part to facilitate her sons’ interest in farming. She has five boys, the oldest of whom is married and has given her two grandchildren.
Dr. Blum retired from routine family medicine practice in 2016. He continues a part-time practice of occupational medicine, primarily as medical director for Workwell, of St. Joseph’s Hospital in Bangor. He is still based at the Milliken Medical Center in Patten, where he performs Social Security, disability and Independent Medical Examinations, and continues to serve as School Physician for RSU 50 and RSU 89.
