Hartford Healthcare at Home

VNA HealthCare is a community-based home health and hospice organization serving 60 communities in the Central Connecticut and Greater Waterbury areas. In the privacy and comfort of the clients' home, VNA HEalthCare is there to help in recovery fron an illness or following surgery ir to provide care to a loved one with a terminal illness. This agency fulfills a special mission, enabling individuals to achieve maximum independence, to participate in their care plan and to live with dignity while receiving quality care in their own homes.

VNA HealthCare is dedicated to improving the health and well-being of individuals by providing a full range of home care, hospice and community-based health and wellness services. When VNA Health Care was conceived 100 years ago a big health concern was how to best care for new mothers and their babies. Responding to this need, The Guild of St. Barnabas authorized the formation of a visiting nurse program. Two years later, responding to the same situation in Waterbury, the Rev. Dr. John Lewis started a dispensary in the Henry Street Settlement House. The business plan was to hire one nurse and charge between 10 and 50 cents a visit. By 1903 the staff consisted on one nurse in Hartford and one nurse in Waterbury to meet the demands of nursing services in both regions. Today, VNA provides more than 100,000 nursing visits per year.