Deschutes Rim Health Clinic Providers
Sharon D. DeHart, PA-C (Physician Assistant-Certified)
Sharon is our full-time healthcare provider and returned to Central Oregon from a primary care practice in Lebanon Oregon. She brings with her almost three decades of experience in emergency medicine prior to becoming a physician assistant, a dedication to and experience in providing healthcare to the underinsured, and personifies the ‘ole country doc’ theory of medicine. She uses the years of experience in other fields besides medicine to her advantage now in caring for people of all ages, through all aspects of their life. She and her husband, Gary, who has family in the Hood River area, and four-legged child Shadow, have recently purchased a home in the Wamic/Pine Hollow area, “as we plan to live out the rest of our lives here.” We are committed to our friends and neighbors!
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Stephen A. McLennon, MD, our Medical Director and Supervising Physician
Dr. McLennon comes to see patients every two weeks, in addition to working in The Dalles in Family Practice, Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine. He is also the Medical Director for Mid-Columbia Medical Center’s Center for Mind and Body, teaches stress relaxation classes, and performs and leads community drumming sessions, believing drumming improves moods, immune function, physical movement and decreases burnout and stress.
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Lee Balentine, DMD, leases space for his Dental practice in the Deschutes Rim Clinic building
Dr. Harlow started the dental practice in Maupin, driving up from Madras until 1985, when Dr. Balentine bought his practice, and it has been growing ever since.
Dr. Balentine graduated from the University of Arizona in 1971 with a Bachelor of Science. He then attended the University of Oregon Dental School in Portland , graduating in 1975. He then spent the next three years with the Navy, before returning to Portland to practice. After spending eight years with the Willamette Dental Group he decided it was time to spread his wings and go out on his own. He landed in Maupin, Oregon. Dr. Balentine moved to this area because he enjoys fishing, hunting, but his most recent love is golf.
Dr. Balentine is involved in his local community. He is part of the Fire Department, the South Wasco County Ambulance, and the Lions Club, the board for the Canyon Rim Manor, and the Chamber of Commerce. He is also a Community Member At Large for the White River Health District Board of Directors, the parent board for the Deschutes Rim Health Clinic.
Dr. Balentine has been married to his wife Sharon, a school teacher in Maupin, for 35 years and has four children and one golden lab.
With the move to larger quarters within the Deschutes Rim Health Clinic building, Dr. Balentine has been able to add 2 new staff members: a dental assistant and a hygienist to his qualified staff.
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