2011

Kathryn Suminsby, a longtime member and past President of the Mount Desert Island Auxiliary was honored during a recent ceremony for her longtime dedication to the MDI Lifeline Program.

A minimally invasive procedure for treating enlarged prostates, first introduced in 2009 at Mount Desert Island Hospital, has recently gotten better. Urologist Surapaneni Ramanadha Rao, MD has begun using a faster and more effective update to GreenLight^TM Laser therapy for treatment of benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH).

Mount Desert Island Hospital has announced the hiring of Ray Chalifour of Portsmouth, New Hampshire as the new Vice President of Physician Practices.

There’s a room on Mount Desert Island Hospital’s third floor where patients can look out the window and, regardless of the weather outside or the circumstances inside, be comforted by the serene image of stars on a moonlit sky.

After nearly thirty years as a service of Mount Desert Island Hospital’s Auxiliary, the Lifeline program is now being run by Birch Bay Retirement Village.

In late October of 2009, Dr. Edward White traveled to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, laden with hundreds of pounds of donated surgical supplies as part of an annual medical mission. Having done this since 2002, he was prepared for the challenge of a makeshift surgical suite because of a fire last year that burned St. Jude hospital in the town of Vieux Fort, his base of operations. 

What he and many of the Island’s residents weren’t prepared for was Hurricane Tomas.