Visiting Nurse Health System

Visiting Nurse Health System provides home Health services in the homes of over 5,000 patients annually by our licensed, professional home healthcare clinicians. Home healthcare encompasses a broad range of patient care and support services for those who are recovering from a hospital stay, who may be chronically ill, or need assistance with the essential activities of daily living. This care is provided by a team of approximately 135 professionals, skilled medical personnel including nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, home Health aides and social workers. The primary goals of bringing healthcare into the home are to help patients avoid hospital readmission, improve their clinical outcomes, and improve their overall Health from the comfort of the place they call home. As a leader in the field, Visiting Nurse delivers quality, cost-effective care with the utmost compassion, and remains steadfast in our committment to helping patients remain as safe and independent aspossible. Equally as important, Visiting Nurse continues to provide care and services for our Georgia communities to those in need.

The primary goal of Visiting Nurse Health System's community care division is to provide quality healthcare and aging services in the home by helping patients remain living safely and independently as long as possible. Along with the community care team, the community care division partners with a broad range of community organizations to provide a comprehensive range of services to nursing home-eligible, low-income seniors and disabled individuals who have ongoing medical conditions requiring long-term support. These community care programs include the service options using resources in a community environment program (source), the community care services program (ccsp) and the home and community based services program (hcbs). A team of approximately 130 social workers and nurses work carefully to determine each patient's individual long-term care needs, and coordinate access to care through a variety of local medical and social service resources for more than 6,000 seniors and their family members each year.

Visiting Nurse Health System, under the hospice atlanta brand, provides hospice and palliative care in the homes of patients with life-limiting illnesses who have elected to stop aggressive, curative treatments. The primary goals of hospice atlanta's care is to provide quality care, comfort, and dignity for patients during their final stage of life. In addition, we provide patients' families with the education, resources and services needed, along with emotional support during the dying process, and bereavement support after the death of their loved one. Our team of approximately 75 qualified professionals and 72 specially trained volunteers provide end-of-life care to over 600 patients annually. Hospice atlanta delivers this compassionate care in the comfort of the patients' home, the place they choose to receive care. Hospice atlanta offers a variety of emotional and spiritual bereavement support services, provided by trained bereavement coordinators and bereavement professionals, to include in-person counseling, virtual support visits, regularly scheduled grief support groups, educational resources, and the annual bereavement events - a workshop and family camp, camp s.t.a.r.s. Bereavement support is available for one year after the death of a loved one, and two years for those mourning the loss of a child.