ROCKPORT — Pen Bay Medical Center welcomes Rachel Picone, DNP, FNP-C, WHNP-BC, AAHIVS, to the Pen Bay Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases team. Picone is accepting new primary care patients.

Before joining PBMC, Picone worked as a nurse practitioner at HIV Alliance in Eugene, Oregon, and in the Infectious Disease department at Berkshire Health Systems in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

Picone earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015, and received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia in 2008 and 2010.

To schedule an appointment, please call 301-5678.

Pen Bay Medical Center is part of MaineHealth, a not-for-profit integrated health system consisting of nine local hospital systems, a comprehensive behavioral healthcare network, diagnostic services, home health agencies, and more than 1,600 employed and independent physicians working together through an Accountable Care Organization. With more than 19,000 employees, MaineHealth is the largest health system in northern New England and provides preventive care, diagnosis and treatment to 1.1 million residents in Maine and New Hampshire. For more information, please visit pbmc.org.