Visiting Nurse Service Caring

Established in 1880, the Visiting Nurses Association of Albany, Saratoga & Rensselaer is a certified nonprofit home health agency and governed by community members. Located in Albany, N.Y., it provides nurses, health aides and rehabilitation services to residents of Albany, Saratoga and Rensselaer counties in New York. Additionally, the association offers diabetes educators, lactation specialist, enterostomal therapist, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists, respiratory therapists and clinical nurse specialists. Its services and programs include cardiopulmonary care; case management; community mental health; diabetes care; geriatric alcohol program; hospital to home-care coordination; maternal and child health; and oncology care. The association also offers several community services, including adult influenza and pneumonia vaccine clinics, blood pressure screenings and community health promotion events. The Visiting Nurses Association of Albany, Saratoga & Rensselaer is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and licensed by the New York State Department of Health.

Healthcare Association of New York State is a nonprofit association that represents and advocates on behalf of all New York s hospitals and health systems at all levels of the federal and state government. The association provides executive suite online resource for hospital and health system leaders. Executive suite captures data and information on key financial, operational, and leadership issues and indicator and views the latest news on health care. Federal political action committees of the association provide services for the problems confronting hospitals and health systems. Additionally, it assists voluntary health care trustees through education and communications. Healthcare Association of New York State also provides decision support tools, operational efficiency methods and technology innovations that help hospitals to make sound business decisions, enhance their cost-effectiveness and efficiency. The health care association is located in Rensselaer, N.Y.