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Massena Memorial Hospital adds new social worker

Posted 12/16/17

MASSENA – Licensed clinical social worker Alison Herne recently joined the staff at Massena Memorial Hospital. She is MMH’s first social worker for outpatients. She has 20 years experience in …

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Massena Memorial Hospital adds new social worker

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MASSENA – Licensed clinical social worker Alison Herne recently joined the staff at Massena Memorial Hospital. She is MMH’s first social worker for outpatients.

She has 20 years experience in social work. She will assist patients in “overcoming barriers which might hinder their healthcare goals, working closely with the hospital’s outreach clinics,” MMH officials said in a news release. She can help a person arrange for transportation to a doctor’s visit, schedule in-home or skilled nursing healthcare when ordered by the physicians, as well as other social work needs as a counselor, coordinator and a source of information, MMH said.

Herne has worked at North Star Behavioral Health Services in Malone and for the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe as a mental health therapist.

She will travel to Brasher Falls and Louisville Family Health Centers to meet with patients as needed. Herne also meets with patients in her office at the MMH Medical Office Group, 181 Maple St.

Herne earned her bachelors of psychology degree from SUNY Potsdam and a master’s degree is in social work from the University of Buffalo. Patients must be referred by the MMH primary care doctors to meet with Herne.