Program areas at VHC
Valley Home Care provides in Home medical Care to the residents of passaic and bergen county. In 2022, Valley Home Care made an estimated 190,000 Home visits to over 11,500 patients. These patients with a multitude of medical conditions vary in age from new born to the elderly. The vast majority (75%) of these patients are medicare and medicaid participants with the balance of the patients being commercial insurance, self pay or charity Care. Valley Home Care provides this Care with over 400 dedicated staff members, including nurses, therapists, social workers, Home health aides and various specialty clinicians. Valley Home Care, Inc's three main Home Care programs are the adult Home Care program, the maternal child health program and the hospice program.the adult Home Care program provides Home Care services to those patients over eighteen years old. The majority of the patients in this program are the elderly who are medically Home bound and in need of medical assistance in the Home. In many cases these patients live alone and Valley Home Care is their life line to medical Care. This Care is provided by nurses, therapists, social workers, Home health aides and various specialty clinicians. Valley Home Care has invested significant resources to assure that our clinical staff has both the proper training and technology needed to handle the complicated in Home medical needs of our patients.
Valley Home Care provides outpatient rehabilitation services with over 11,000 visits provided to patients, helping them to stay in their Home.
The Valley hospice provides end of life Care to patients in passaic and bergen county. The Valley hospice assists over 1,450 patients and families makes over 75,000 Home visits each year. The Valley hospice not only provides comfort and medical Care to its patients with highly trained clinical staff, but also helps the family in coping with the loss of a loved one. This is accomplished through many programs which are available such as the bereavement program, which helps the family cope with the situation. Also, the journeys program, which is an art therapy program to help the children and siblings deal with the loss of a loved one.
The maternal child health program provides Home Care services to those patients under eighteen years old. The majority of the patients on this program are infants and their mother. The Care provided to this group of patients range from medical needs of the children to the parental educational needs of the family. Many of the young children who come to Valley Home Care do so with significant medical needs and remain Valley Home Care patients into adulthood. The maternal child health program also has a pediatric hospice component, the butterflies program, which cares for the terminally ill pediatric patient. The maternal child health program makes over 4,300 visits annually by various Valley Home Care staff members.