vna 2024-2025
vna 2024-2025
A visiting nurse association (VNA), also known as a visiting nurse agency or a home healthcare agency or association, is any of the many American organizations that provide home healthcare and hospice services to patients who are housebound, recovering from an illness or injury, or living with a disability or chronic condition through a network of nurses, therapists, social workers, and other healthcare associates.
History
- Based on the British district nurse model, several district nurse associations began to form in the northeastern United States at the end of the 1800s. The Buffalo District Nursing Association was founded in 1885, the Boston Instructive District Visiting Nurse Association was founded in 1886, the Visiting Nurses Association of Philadelphia was founded in 1886, and the Chicago Visiting Nurse Association was founded in 1889.
- The Visiting Nurse Service of New York, which was established in 1893 by nursing pioneer Lillian D. Wald to provide low-income immigrants in New York City’s Lower East Side with home classes on nursing and healthcare, is the source of the current VNA model. The Medicare database currently lists over 12,000 home health care providers.
- The first Visiting Nurse Association Week was celebrated in 2005 in order to raise awareness of the charity-based mission of VNAs and is held annually on the second week in May.[4] The report that the United States Congress recommended the establishment of a Visiting Nurse Association Week stated that there are over 500 individual VNAs in the United States employing over 90,000 clinicians and providing healthcare to 4,000,000 people annually. In the same report, they claimed that VNAs are one of the largest providers of immun
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