Greater Seacoast Community Health Adds Rochester Schools and Five-Day Mobile Clinics

Greater Seacoast Community Health is expanding its school-based and mobile health programs, adding Spaulding High School and Rochester Middle School to its school sites and moving its mobile clinics toward five days a week, with new locations starting in November, Yahoo reported on October 31, 2026. Greater Seacoast Community Health is a community health center with offices in Somersworth and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that also runs community-outreach programs.

Greater Seacoast Adds Rochester Schools to Its Program

The school-based health program at Somersworth High School and Middle School launched in 2023 and has been expanded to Spaulding High School and Rochester Middle School. The program provides medical and behavioral health care on-site, with consent from parents or guardians, so students do not have to leave school and parents do not have to leave work.

"We have long known there was potential for our community-based health services to benefit more people, within a larger footprint," said Luke Mason, RN, who oversees Greater Seacoast's delivery of health care at schools and community locations. "Now, by expanding our team of health care providers who have a passion for community-based health care and building new partnerships with more entities in the region, we can meet more of the need."

To address students' behavioral-health needs, Greater Seacoast brought on Nicole Dale-Hogan, LICSW, who has provided care to young people and families since 2010 in schools, treatment centers and group practices. "Real change happens when we can meet those we work with where they are at," Dale-Hogan said. "This is why I find providing quality and accessible resources within schools so important."

Nurse practitioner Kelly Faul, APRN, is entering her second year as the school-based program's primary-care provider. Faul was a school nurse before bringing her advanced-practice certification to Somersworth High School and Middle School last year and advocated for expanding school-based care to the Rochester schools.

Mobile Clinics Move Toward Five Days a Week

Greater Seacoast's mobile health clinics offer medical and social work services at shelters, soup kitchens and community organizations in the Seacoast region. In recent years, clinics were scheduled one day a week at Cross Roads House and St. John's Church in Portsmouth and another day at the Salvation Army in Rochester and the Community Action Program in Dover, and the team also visited Southeastern NH Services and multiple Pop-Up Care Villages.

The program is expanding to operate five days a week. Earlier this fall, clinics were added at the food pantries We Care in Milton and Gather in Portsmouth. Starting in November, sites will be added at Hampton Beach, St. Vincent de Paul in Hampton and Rockingham Village Apartments in Seabrook, with more sites to come.

The increase in clinics was made possible by dedicating the time of two new employees to the program: medical assistant Lauren Bernier and nurse practitioner Brooke Friedl, APRN. "This role allows me to bring health care and resources directly into the community," Friedl said. "Everyone deserves access to quality care, and I look forward to helping connect patients with the support and services they may need most."

No appointments are needed for mobile health clinics, and all are welcome regardless of ability to pay or insurance status. More information about the mobile health program and a schedule can be found on Greater Seacoast Community Health's mobile health page.

November Site Additions Set for the Mobile Program

Starting in November, the mobile health program adds sites at Hampton Beach, St. Vincent de Paul in Hampton and Rockingham Village Apartments in Seabrook, with more sites to come, according to the report.