Vna Community Healthcare history

1953: VNA offers first New Hampshire services in Hanover.

An active Southern Monmouth Auxiliary opened the doors of the Thrift Shop in Manasquan in 1960.

By the early 1970’s, VNA nurses had offices in three low-income housing communities in Arbor Hill.

In 1976, the VNA moved to its present, much larger home, at 35 Colvin Avenue in Albany.

1978: Hospice of the Upper Valley founded to support end-of-life care.

1983: Medicare initiates Hospice benefit as reimbursement for end-of-life care.

To give the agency a vehicle to raise money for these unfunded services, the not-for-profit VNA Foundation was established in 1984.

In 1988, our hospice care program in NJ was certified by Medicare, and now serves more than 3,000 terminally ill patients and their families annually.

In an effort to make the organization’s identity clear in both Middlesex County and Monmouth County, the agency’s trustees voted in December, 1993 to adopt the name Visiting Nurse Association of Central Jersey (VNACJ).

1994: Lyme Home Health Agency joins VNA/VNH.

1995: Hospice of the Upper Valley merges with VNA/VNH.

1996: Randolph Area Hospice aligns with VNA/VNH.

2001: Southern Vermont Home Health Agency merges with VNA/VNH, bringing the total number of towns served in VT and NH to 86.

2004: VNA/VNH becomes the Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire.

2007: 100th anniversary of VNA services in Vermont is celebrated.

In 2008, VNA of Central Jersey joined with Visiting Nurse and Hospice Services and partnered with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital to enhance and expand home and community care options for the residents of Mercer, Somerset, Union, Burlington, Gloucester, and Camden counties.

Leaders in Fall Prevention Since 2009, VNA Community Healthcare & Hospice’s highly effective fall risk program, now called Steady Steps, has been funded by a grant from the CT Collaboration for Fall Prevention at Yale University School of Medicine through the CT State Department on Aging.

In 2011, VNA of Central Jersey, its affiliates and partners joined together as Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group and added, its most recent member VNA of Englewood.

VNA Community Healthcare & Hospice Family Caregiver Education Services Based on a 2012 study from AARP, VNA Community Healthcare & Hospice is helping family caregivers learn medical skills that are needed to keep their care recipient safe, independent and out of the hospital.

2014 – Successful expansion into the Greater Seacoast Area and York County.

2016: VNH becomes an affiliate of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.

2020 was certainly an unforgettable year as the world was faced with the COVID-19 pandemic.

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