Penobscot Community Health Care has announced that Sandra Wardwell recently joined the medical staff. She began her health care career as an obstetrics registered nurse at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor in the 1980s and in 2002 she completed her Master of Science degree as a women’s health nurse practitioner at the University of Maine.

When her son went to college, she was commissioned as a captain in the U.S. Air Force, with two years spent in the OB-GYN unit of Malcolm Grow Medical Center at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. She was selected to serve the current Bush administration as a White House military social aide. Her last two years of active duty were on assignment at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio as a women’s health nurse practitioner. During that period, she deployed to Iraq and served five months as the GYN provider for all female troops north of Baghdad.

In 2007, Wardwell re-entered civilian life working in a Medical Affairs setting as a contraceptive expert in the New York City area.

Wardwell’s services are available Mondays and Fridays at PCHC Specialty Clinic, 1012 Union St., call 945-5245, option 1; Tuesdays at Capehart Community Clinic, 86 Davis Road, Bangor, call 992-2205, and Wednesdays at Brewer Community Clinic at 451 South Main St., 989-1567.

Amos Orcutt, president of the University of Maine Foundation in Orono, has announced the promotion of Sarah McPartland-Good to director of planned giving. She will have the primary responsibility of developing and coordinating the foundation’s comprehensive gift planning program.

McPartland-Good, who is a lawyer, joined the foundation in 1998 as a planned giving officer after working in a private law practice in Bangor. She earned a communications degree from the University of Southern Maine and a law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, N.H.