Meet Karin Woodworth, FNP-C, ACHPN
After nearly 25 years in healthcare, Karin Woodworth founded Still Harbor Health to offer the kind of care patients and families often need most: time to talk, space to ask hard questions, and guidance that keeps the patient’s wishes at the center.
Serving coastal Maine through in-home and virtual support.
Experience You Can Trust
Karin Woodworth, FNP-C, ACHPN, is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with nearly 25 years of healthcare experience. Before founding Still Harbor Health, she spent many years caring for patients with serious illness, advanced age, dementia, hospice needs, and end-of-life concerns in coastal Maine.
Karin earned her Master of Science in Nursing from Husson University in 2018. She holds Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse certification and is certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying, Loss, and Bereavement through the Association for Death Education and Counseling.
Her work combines clinical experience with steady, personal support for patients and families navigating complex medical decisions, changing health needs, and what may come next.
Karin can help with symptom management, medication review, care coordination, advance directives, hospice eligibility, Death with Dignity guidance, family conversations, caregiver support, and planning for serious illness or end-of-life care.
Why Still Harbor Health Exists
Karin founded Still Harbor Health after years of working inside larger healthcare systems and seeing the gaps patients and families often fall through.
Some people need more support than primary care can provide, but do not qualify for traditional palliative care. Others are seeing multiple specialists but still feel unheard or unsure of the overall plan. Many families are caring for an aging or seriously ill loved one without knowing what resources are available, what Medicare covers, or what to expect next.
Still Harbor Health was created to offer an extra layer of support outside the rush of the healthcare system.
This is personalized care for serious illness, aging, dementia, hospice transitions, and end-of-life planning. It is centered on the patient’s wishes, quality of life, and the practical needs of the family.
The name Still Harbor Health comes from Karin’s life on the coast of Maine.
Karin and her husband sail, and she knows the feeling of crossing rough water: the focus, the uncertainty, the need for steady hands. Then comes the relief of entering a quiet harbor. The water settles. The boat steadies. There is room to breathe.
For many patients and families, serious illness can feel like rough seas: appointments, changing symptoms, confusing recommendations, hard conversations, and fear of what may happen next.
Karin’s role is to help create a still harbor within that experience.
A place to pause.
A place to understand the options.
A place to be heard.
A place to make a plan.
A place where the patient’s wishes stay at the center.
The Story Behind the Name
Karin’s Approach
Karin’s care is grounded in listening, advocacy, collaboration, and practical support at home.
Listen First
Karin begins by understanding the person, the diagnosis, and what matters most before making recommendations.
Connect the Pieces
Karin helps coordinate with primary care, specialists, hospice, and family so the care plan feels clearer.
Honor Your Wishes
Through goals-of-care conversations and advance care planning, Karin helps patients make informed choices.
Bring Care Home
NP home visits in coastal Maine allow Karin to see daily needs, safety concerns, medications, and support gaps.
What Karin Wants Patients and Families to Know
You do not have to be dying to receive support.
Many people hear “palliative care” and think it means giving up, stopping treatment, or being very close to death. Supportive and palliative care can happen while someone is still receiving treatment, pursuing more time, or living with a serious illness for years.
You also do not have to wait until a crisis.
Some of the most helpful conversations happen earlier: before a hospitalization, before a fall, before family conflict, or before a patient is too sick to speak for themselves.
Karin helps patients and families talk about what matters, understand available resources, document wishes, and prepare for next steps without feeling like they are giving up.
Talking about illness, decline, or death does not make those things happen. It helps people feel less afraid and more supported.
Local, Personal Care for Coastal Maine
Still Harbor Health serves patients and families throughout coastal Maine, with NP home visits generally available in Waldo, Knox, and Lincoln counties. Telehealth support is available throughout Maine.
Karin sees patients in private homes, assisted living settings, nursing facilities, and other care environments. She also supports family members and caregivers who may be trying to make decisions from a distance.
Her work is rooted in local, community-based care. She understands the realities of rural Maine healthcare: long drives, limited resources, close-knit communities, and families trying to piece together support without a clear roadmap.
Still Harbor Health exists to make that path less confusing.
A Steady Presence When Things Feel Uncertain
Families often reach out when something has changed.
A parent is declining.
A spouse is overwhelmed.
A diagnosis is progressing.
A loved one is coming home from the hospital.
Hospice has been mentioned, but no one is sure what it means.
The patient’s wishes are unclear.
The family does not know how much longer they can do this alone.
Karin brings clinical experience, honest guidance, careful listening, and a practical plan for next steps.
You are not going through this alone.
Credentials & Training
Karin Woodworth, FNP-C, ACHPN
Founder, Still Harbor Health PLLC
Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
Master of Science in Nursing, Husson University
Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse
Certified in Thanatology: Death, Dying, Loss, and Bereavement
Nearly 25 years of healthcare experience
Experience in hospice, palliative care, serious illness, geriatrics, dementia care, and end-of-life support in coastal Maine
Service Area
Home visits are available in Waldo, Knox, and Lincoln counties.
Telehealth visits are available throughout Maine.
Death with Dignity is a state-wide service.
Karin may travel outside her usual service area on a case-by-case basis.
Let’s Start With a Conversation
You do not need to know exactly what kind of support you need before reaching out. Share a little about what is going on, and Karin will follow up to help determine whether Still Harbor Health is the right fit.