KINGFIELD — Christie King will  rejoin Mt. Abram Regional Health Center this summer.

She graduated from the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Southern Illinois University in 2011, having previously obtained a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree at Mercy College of Health Sciences in Iowa. She brings nursing experience in hospital settings and advanced practice nursing experience in orthopedic care.

As a U.S. Navy Reserve officer since 1998, she completed two years of voluntary deployment, one year in Kuwait and one year in Germany. Her area of expertise included care for medical and surgical patients and, in particular, care of traumatic amputation of limbs and burn care for Armed Services members.

In Kingfield, King will join family nurse practitioner, Shannon Munro, clinical social worker, Angela Kristoff, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, Randy Beal. The health center provides a full range of primary care and preventive services to 1,500 children, adolescents and adults from Carrabassett Valley, Coplin and Dallas Plantations, Eustis, Kingfield, New Portland, Stratton and surrounding towns.

Christine King