Community Helping Hands

Utopia Home Care, founded in 1983, is a family-owned and operated home health care agency. It has more than 20 branch offices in New York, Connecticut and Florida and is headquartered in Kings Park, N.Y. The agency s staff includes nurses, therapists, social workers, pathologists, personal care aides and homemakers. Utopia Home Care also operates Utopia Assisted Living Services, which provides services to individual clients living in senior independent housing facilities. The agency s physicians offer treatment for patients with cancer, dementia, and other short- and long-term illnesses. Utopia Home Care also offers free training for those who want to become certified home health aides. It additionally conducts special classes and workshops for bilingual Spanish students. Utopia Home Care s therapists direct and supervise physical and occupational therapies to patients in their homes. Its speech pathologists work with primary care nurses to coordinate patient care services. Utopia Home Care maintains a presence in East Haven, 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.