Visiting Nurse Home and Hospice Information

Home Care Services of Visiting Nurse Home & Hospice is intermittent care – care provided several times a week or less for a short period of time – that requires special skills not ordinarily carried out by a lay person. Care may be provided more often if the medical condition of the patient requires it, but it is not private duty nursing. The Visiting Nurse Home and Hospice Home Care staff includes: Registered Nurses, Certified Nursing Assistants, Home Health Aides, IV Therapists, Medical Social Workers, Dieticians and Nutrition Counselors, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Speech Therapists The Palliative Care program provides home health services to patients with serious and progressive health conditions who want to continue active treatment, seeking a cure or remission. Patients in this program often have life-threatening condition and at VNHH we manage complex pain and symptoms, manage medications, coordinate care with other health care professionals, provide support for treatment decisions, ease stresses and anxiety for patients and families. Hospice is a form of philosophy; it is not a place. Hospice care is provided to patients who have advanced diseases that are considered incurable. Hospice care is about living each day to its fullest and helps to make a patient’s last months and days as comfortable and fulfilling as possible…making every moment count. Care is provided in the familiar surroundings of home or home-like setting. Care can also be provided in a long-term care setting or a hospital. The Hospice team focuses on patients’ and their loved ones’ physical, emotional and spiritual comfort. Hospice Services Include: pain and symptom management, emotional and spiritual support for patient and loved ones, personal care such as bathing, cleaning, grooming, and helping patients to sit up and move around, respite for family caregivers, medications, equipment and supplies related to hospice diagnosis (covered 100%)