A diverse group of healthcare professionals gathered together, with one woman holding an award, in a room with yellow walls and windows with blinds, promoting home health and nursing services.
A diverse group of healthcare professionals gathered together, with one woman holding an award, in a room with yellow walls and windows with blinds, promoting home health and nursing services.

Home Health & Nursing Services

At MDNA, our staff is committed to providing quality and affordable health care services to those who are homebound and living on Mount Desert Island, Trenton, and Lamoine. We do so by partnering with you, your Maine PCP/healthcare provider, and care management team. We also provide you and your family with a mutually agreed upon patient-centered plan of care. Our team assists you in recovery and maintenance by helping you remain healthy and safe in your own home. Lastly, we offer you and your family preventative health care services through individual or group sessions.

Skilled Nursing

When ordered by a physician, Licensed Nurses perform an in-home comprehensive assessment, to determine home health care needs. Our skilled nursing services include:

  • Vital sign monitoring

  • IV therapy & complex wound management

  • Chronic and preventative disease management and education

  • Monitoring serious illness and unstable health status

  • Medication education and management - training on use of Timed med box or the use of pre-filled pill packets

  • Wound assessment and dressing care for pressure sore or surgical wound

  • Point of Care INR blood testing and blood sugar testing

  • Care coordination with patient, family, provider and care management team

A man with glasses and suspenders sitting in a chair, a woman wearing a face mask leaning over him, and the man has blood pressure cuff on his arm.

Nurse Pam conducts a blood
pressure check at a free clinic.

An elderly man is sitting in a wheelchair, smiling, while a woman in a pink shirt is giving him a shot in his upper arm, smiling and appearing cheerful. The setting appears to be indoors, in a room with a yellow and white wall, a wooden table, and some personal items nearby.

Registered nurse Sara helps a patient at our flu clinic.

We also offer services to our local community. We partner with MDI Hospital to give seasonal flu clinics in October, and offer quarterly blood pressure clinics at designated housing facilities.

We are a member of MDI Palliative Care Group providing end of life education to MDI residents and are members of the Mount Desert Island Nonprofit Alliance.