4 Nurses at Work

Founded in 1909, Visiting Nurse Connecticut is one of the leading providers of health services and programs to serve the needs of patients at home. It is a nonprofit voluntary and state licensed health care agency providing preventive, healing and support services for mothers and infants, young children, adults and seniors. The center specializes in providing skilled nursing, physical, speech and occupational therapies, medical social work and home health aides. It also offers a wide range of other services, including high tech home therapy, wound care, psychiatric nursing, pain management, a palliative care program, mother, baby and children s services, nutritional counseling, elder care planning and coordination services, and care for the caregivers. The center additionally provides home health telemonitoring and health watch emergency response systems. Visiting Nurse Connecticut also offers its expertise in hospice care programs, including comprehensive end-of-life care, cancer support and grief counseling services. The center is located in Bridgeport, Conn.

Visiting Nurse Service & Hospice of Suffolk is a nonprofit, home health care and hospice agency serving the residents of Suffolk County since 1952. It has more than 200 staff members and over 100 trained hospice volunteers who assist patients and their families with transportation, grocery shopping and companionship. It offers a wide range of home health care services, such as registered nurses, enterostomal therapy, chronic wound and home health care, psychiatric and mental health nursing, and physical, speech and occupational therapies. It also provides various hospice care services, including medical social work, pastoral care, nutritional counseling, medical equipment and supplies, respite care, bereavement counseling, and medication for pain and symptom control. Visiting Nurse Service & Hospice of Suffolk is located in Northport, N.Y.