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Community Health & Hospice was founded in 1975 as a visiting nurse organization, known as Lakes Region Community Health Agency. Located in Laconia, N.H., Community Health & Hospice is a private, nonprofit home health and community support service agency serving the residents of New Hampshire. The organization supports and educates families through pediatric visiting nurses, mother-baby postpartum visits, pediatric care management, prenatal home visits, immunizations, child development programs and partners in health. Its young family program serves children suffering from serious illness or developmental disability, premature infants, children with no health care provider and parents with concerns about child development. The organization also provides hospice care to terminally ill patients and bereavement counseling for family members and caregivers. Its hospice team includes the attending physician, medical director, registered nurses, licensed nursing assistants, therapists, nutritionists, medical social workers, counselors and volunteers.

The Franklin Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice provides home health and hospice care services for individuals with various illnesses and disabilities. It is an independent nonprofit organization that offers a variety of educational and public health services. The association offers skilled nursing, disease case management and supportive services. The Franklin Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice also provides a range of homemaking services that includes laundry assistance, light meal preparation, grocery shopping and letter writing. The association additionally maintains a staff of medical social workers that offers patient education and counseling services, as well as advises family on patient care. Founded in 1945, it also provides electronic telemonitoring services. The Franklin Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice is located in Franklin, N.H.

Homemakers Health Services, located in Rochester, N.H., is a full-service charitable health care agency. It specializes in offering a wide variety of visiting nurse, and home health and adult medical day care services. The agency s various home health care services include skilled nursing, rehabilitative therapies, home health aides and medical social work. Homemakers Health Services also provides various programs, such as Homemaker, In-Home Care Providers, Safe at Home and Alzheimer's disease respite programs. The agency s various home health services include assistance with dressing, meal preparation, changing bed linens and prescribing exercises. Its services also include assistance with bathing and personal hygiene, and monitoring temperature and pulse rate.