PainCare is very pleased to announce the addition of David Tung, MD to our practice. Dr. Tung received his medical degree at the Medical College of Virginia, completed his residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation at the Kessler Institute, then completed fellowship training in interventional and rehabilitative pain management at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
Dr. Tung is relocating to the central New Hampshire area and will be accepting patients in our Merrimack facility beginning November 1st.
PC Sponsors Strawbery Banke Fall Festival
2008 Strawberry Bank Fall festival
PainCare was honored to be a silver sponsor of the 2008 Strawbery Banke Fall Festival held on Saturday, October 4th in Portsmouth, NH.
Featuring four centuries of traditional home and farm harvest festivities, PainCare participated in the days activities which included music and dance, heritage breading animals, apple cider pressing, crafts demonstrations, children’s games, native plants, heirloom fruit and vegetable tasting, and much more!
Lab receives certificate of compliance
Somersworth, NH (9/30/08)
Congratulations to our lab employees. The lab just passed a rigorous inspection to receive the State of NH & CLIA Certificate of Compliance in accordance with RSA 151.
Our new lab received a license to perform hematology, chemistry and drugs of abuse testing.
We are now officially compliant with State and Federal regulations for laboratory testing.
Two employees at PainCare in Merrimack are being recognized for their recent accomplishments.
Sheryl Max, RN
Sheryl Max, RN walked 26.4 miles in the Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk for the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute on Sunday, September 21st. She raised $400.00 for this cause, and much of it was donated to her in memory of Leslie Leduc, ARNP, a PainCare provider who passed away last spring.
Dorinda Wegener
Another employee of PainCare, Dorinda Wegener, is having a poem entitled “Homestead” published in The Antioch Review. The Antioch Review, founded in 1941, is one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America. Authors published within are consistently included in Best American anthologies and Pushcart Prizes. PainCare is happy to employ the best and the brightest, and is proud of their ever-expanding talents and relentless hard work.
PC sponsors NHHPCO 5th Annunal golf tournament
On August 22, 2008 PainCare was a “Diamond Level” sponsor in a golf tournament benefiting the New Hampshire Hospice and Palliative Care Organization at Canterbury Woods Country Club in Canterbury, NH.
Players on the PainCare team included: Dr. Michael O’Connell, owner of PainCare, Chris Clough, PA-C, Kevin Broadhurst and Pete Bogannam. Our PainCare team won the tournament bringing home the title of ‘2008 Champions’ as well as a sense of pride for being able to contribute to such a wonderful organization.
All of the funds raised by this tournament go to New Hampshire Hospice & Palliative Care Organization. NHHPCO is a non-profit organization that supports the improvement of end-of-life care in the community.
Thanks to NHHPCO and Canterbury Woods Country Club for a wonderful day!
Raffle winner!
Congratulations to Carrie Bertolino of North Andover, Mass!
You won the two Red Sox tickets at PainCare Center's Raffle at the Newburyport River Festival on Saturday, July 12th.
We've started a new section with some of our patient testimonials for the occipital neuromodulation trial, which is performed at our Somersworth facility by Dr. Greenspan.