| The Charity Care program provides home health and personal care services for patients who have insufficient financial resources. Of the 4,000 local patients the VNA serves each year, about half need some level of assistance to pay for their care. Funds from the United Way are an important component in our ability to offer Charity Care, but the VNA must raise significant additional funds each year so that no patient or client will go without. |
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| Charity Care helps people who our neighbors throughout Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Some Charity Care patients may have had a low-paying job with no benefits when they got sick, and therefore were not old enough to qualify for Medicare nor are they eligible for Medicaid. Others may be elderly and need personal care services to be able to stay in their home, services that are not covered by Medicare. |
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| Without the VNA, many of these patients would not be able to find care, putting their recovery in jeopardy. Many have been in the hospital and are recovering from a surgery or a chronic disease such as heart failure or complications from diabetes. Other patients may be disabled or they may have suffered a serious injury, sometimes as victims of crime. |
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| Charity Care patients tend to have more serious health problems than the average home health care patient, because many have not had access to needed health care services in the past. Regardless, our goal is to help each patient become as self-sufficient and independent as possible. |
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| Not all, but many patients in the Charity Care Program recover to the point they are able to return to work. Some patients remain disabled and homebound, or even bedbound, but because of the care they receive, they are able to recover to the point that they can remain in their home, with dignity. |
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