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When you choose a home health agency the first question you should ask yourself is who can I trust to provide high quality care with the most compassionate care possible?  After all, when it comes to receiving home care and private duty services you are inviting caregivers into your home.  Here at the VNA we take that invitation very seriously.

In 1909, we began serving Cincinnati and since then our service area has grown to include coverage for Northern Kentucky, Butler and Warren Counties.  With over 119,00 patient visits each year we are one of the largest home care agencies in our area maintaining individual patient care with one-on-one personalized customized attention.

Disease Management Community Leaders 

Visiting Nurse Association actively partners with several area medical experts in combating many of our communities top medical concerns.  In doing so, the VNA is part of a multi-level plan to improve the overall health of the entire Greater Cincinnati area.  After decades of treating Wounds, the VNA offers expertise in treating all types including Diabetic Wounds, Decubitus Ulcers, Stasis Ulcers and Surgical Ulcers.

VNA Specialty Areas    

Diabetes · Wound Care · Cardiac Care · Physical Therapy

Post Surgical Care· Nursing Case Management ·Geriatric Care Giving ·

Patient Satisfaction is Key to Our Success

Every patient receives a telephone call within 24 hours of referral because we want to know what we can do to make his or her experience with us better and we want to know how we are doing.  99.6% of our patients say they would likely use the VNA again or would refer someone they love to us.  That’s how much they trust us with their healthcare.   Read the VNA mission very closely because the staff lives it everyday so that people in our community can stay at home.  119,000 home visits in 2006. That’s about 327 a day. Many of those visits were made to patients with no family in our area. No support system to speak of. No family physician on record either – literally no one to turn to other than an Emergency Room for medical care.  Some fortunate patients have family members to assist them and still need the VNA to help regain their independence or in some cases, completely enable them to have an ordinary, simple day you might take for granted. 

Doris R. doesn’t say, “I can’t” any more!  After a stroke left her right side affected four years ago, she really didn’t use much of her body.  But after working with a VNA Occupational Therapist she learned to use her hospital bed and her special dinner plate, as well as a few tricks of the trade.  Now she is looking forward to the next phase of her life.  She’s not losing her balance as much as she used to so she can get in and out of bed.  She’s also able to feed herself, dress herself and with the assistance of an aide, she can bathe herself.  Doris has a smile that lights up a room and now, she has more reasons to do so!

54-year-old Sally G. is a great example of how working with a VNA Occupational Therapist and a Physical Therapist has completely turned her life around for the better.  She has an inoperable brain tumor that originally left her unable to do most tasks around the house.  After a short time in therapy she gleefully is able to stand, bath & dress herself -and can even cook breakfast under the watchful eyes of her daughter.

Terry B. suffered two strokes while at work but like most 53-year-old men longs to stay in total control of his life.  With the assistance of a VNA aide who comes to his home once a week to help with basic household chores, he is able to stay independent and in his own apartment.  Now, he not only beats his brother in a not so friendly game of cards, but Terry is also considered to be a real flirt, so watch out ladies!

 Daisy P. is one of the youngest 99-year-old women anyone will ever meet; full of fabulous stories of adventure.  Before raising her own family, she cared for young children for a living, and she says she was lucky enough to travel with them, becoming one of the first African American women from the Cincinnati area to travel on the Queen Mary.  Decades later she finds herself in need of our care.

Twelve years ago Sharon S. was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.  Today, at 61, she is confined to her bed in a home her three children built for her.  It’s close enough for her friends to drop by and watch “American Idol” and for her grandchildren to bake cookies the old fashioned way courtesy of Pillsbury and Kroger’s Dairy Department.  If it wasn’t for your support and the VNA helping Sharon four days a week she wouldn’t be able to stay at home.  For this she is eternally thankful.  You have given her the ability to be home.

Real people in our community who benefit everyday when the staff of the VNA come to their homes.  327 times a day. 365 days a year. 

As Leaders in Technology the VNA offers new tools to enable patients to live independently in their own homes such as in-home Digital EKG, Portable PT/INR immediate results capability and Wound V.A.C. 

Our Board of Trustees is a voluntary local group of leading citizens including three physicians.  They are responsible for the overall quality of care, program and financial review.