For Immediate Release
April 16, 2004

Contact:
Kristy Dillingham
(207) 774-5801
Jason Wolfe
(207) 883-6083
E-mail: jason@wolfenews.com
Web Site: http://www.martinspoint.org

Bruce Wagner has joined Martin’s Point Health Care as the Chief Development Officer. He will be responsible for leading business development initiatives at Portland-based Martin’s Point, a leading provider of innovative and patient-focused care.

Wagner has nearly 25 years of experience in business development and quality management. He most recently served as the director of the Center for Quality of Management in Cambridge, Mass. Prior to that, he served as president of Darex Container Products in Lexington, Mass., and vice president of Grace Packaging in Duncan, South Carolina, both subsidiaries of W.R. Grace & Company.


"Bruce is energetic and results focused with a consistent track record of building growth and operating excellence," said David Howes, M.D., president of Martin's Point. "We look forward to utilizing his skills here at Martin’s Point."

Presently living in Groton, Mass., Wagner is planning to re-locate to Maine. A United Way volunteer, Wagner is a 1974 graduate of Lafayette College in Easton, Penn. In 1992, he completed the Greater Boston Executive Management Program at MIT, and in 1996 completed the advanced management program at INSEAD (European Institute of Business Administration) in Fontainebleau, France.

Martin’s Point Health Care serves 38,000 people in Maine and New Hampshire with four medical practice offices and through the U.S. Family Health Plan, which provides region-wide coverage for military families. As a Maine-based not-for-profit organization that is led by physicians, Martin’s Point is uniquely qualified to meet the public’s changing health care needs.

Martin's Point Health Care was established in 1981, but its roots go back 150 years to the founding of a hospital for sick or injured merchant sailors. Today, Martin’s Point is headquartered in that historic former hospital.

It is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation's predominant standards setting and accrediting body in health care, and has facilities in Portland, Brunswick and Windham, Maine, and in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Martin's Point serves patients in the areas of family practice, internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, radiology, cardiology, and mammography, as well as other fields. For additional information, visit online at www.martinspoint.org.

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