Jobs at Mount Desert Island Hospital

Quality of Life Equals Quality of Care.

Mount Desert Island Hospital serves a close-knit island and surrounding communities through a 25-bed critical access facility in Bar Harbor and a network of area health centers—all designed to provide comprehensive healthcare for residents and visitors.

Since it was established in 1897, the nonprofit hospital has grown into a premier rural healthcare organization with a retirement community and six primary care health centers, as well as a full-service behavioral health center and a dental clinic.

Today, MDI Hospital employs more than 500 people and is the second-largest employer on Mount Desert Island. Our active medical staff includes hospitalists, primary care physicians and practitioners, highly skilled nurses, orthopedic surgeons, general surgeons, psychiatrists, care managers, a board-certified emergency physician, an ophthalmologist, a pathologist, a radiologist, a urologist and a urogynecologist.

MDI Hospital’s groundbreaking teaching partnership with Penn Medicine, established in 2011, has evolved into a model for future urban-rural partnerships across the nation and has established MDI Hospital as a premier rural hospital for emergency medicine and critical care. The hospital’s Emergency Department, a critical link in Downeast Maine’s trauma delivery system, serves the Mount Desert Island community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

MDI Hospital received a five-star rating, the highest awarded, from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in 2020. In addition, the organization’s inpatient, outpatient, emergency and surgical care services have been consistently recognized by Avatar International, the Leapfrog Group, the National Rural Health Association, Harvard Pilgrim and Healthgrades.

The Care You Need, Close to Home.

At Mount Desert Island Hospital, we serve a close-knit island and surrounding communities through a 25-bed critical access facility in Bar Harbor and a network of area health centers—all designed to provide comprehensive healthcare for residents and visitors.

Since it was established in 1897, our nonprofit hospital organization has grown into a state-of-the-art, rural healthcare organization with a retirement community and eight regional health centers, including a full-service behavioral health center and dental clinic.

Mission Statement

To provide compassionate care and strengthen the health of our community by embracing tomorrow’s methods and respecting time-honored values.

Vision Statement

To be our community’s medical home by pursuing innovative models throughout the continuum of care. Our integrated system will be the standard by which others are measured.

Values

• Compassion
• Community
• Improvement
• Integrity
• Respect
• Teamwork