Our 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.
Nurse Pam conducts a blood pressure check at a free clinic.
Occupational therapist Jim conducts a strength test with a patient.
Physical therapist Brianne works with a patient in their home.
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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
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
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Occupational Therapy
Licensed Occupational Therapists in the home conduct an evaluation and work with patients to develop a treatment plan that will improve their ability to complete daily activities safely, without fear or pain.
Teach compensatory strategies to accommodate loss of independence skills
Improve independence and safety with activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing, grooming, and toileting
Provide strategies for instrumental Activities of Daily Living, such as meal preparation/cooking, laundry, finances, and medication management
Identify the need for and train on the use of appropriate adaptive equipment
Teach energy conservation techniques
Upper body strengthening and therapeutic activities to improve endurance for daily living
Provide caregiver education and training
Modify the home environment to decrease risk for injury or fall
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Physical Therapy
Licensed Physical therapists in the home aim to get patients moving again, through exercise, stretching, balance training, pain management, and safety with ambulation both inside and outside the home.
Functional Transfer training
Gait training
Assessment for appropriate assistive device
Strengthening
Fall Risk Assessment
Balance training
Fall prevention and recovery
Develop an exercise plan that is patient centered
Caregiver education and training
Registered nurse Sara helps a patient at our flu clinic
Carla -a music therapist - and a patient smile during a music therapy session.
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.
We also are proud to partner with Carla Tanguay of Modulations Therapies to offer free music therapy sessions to patients thanks to the support of the Hattie A. & Fred C. Lynam Trust and the Elizabeth Fritz Thorndike Advisory Committee.