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Lori Dwyer is CEO of Bangor-based Penobscot Community Health Care, which has patients in Penobscot, Somerset and Waldo counties. In the past year, the nonprofit has worked on increasing access to rural Maine residents and launching a variety of innovative programs that include expanded telehealth, a pilot program to allow paramedics to perform emergency services usually reserved for doctors, the addition of the East Coast’s first dental therapist to perform some services previously reserved for dentists, and more. PCHC was recently awarded $10 million out of the $41 million the state allotted to federally qualified community health centers to expand COVID-19 care and access.