1 minute read
HELP AT HOME
VNA’s Help at Home program assists with everyday activities to help people live safely and independently in the comfort of their own homes. The Help at Home program’s trained caregivers specialize in personal care assistance, companion care, and homemaker services. 2021 brought something very unique to Visiting Nurses with the addition of daughters joining 17,106 their mothers as new employees. Karen Evinger-Irvine, Certified Home Health Aide, has been Home Health a longtime employee in VNA’s Help at Home and Hospice programs, and her daughter, Kit visits in 2021 Schrader, Certified Nurse Aide, joined the Help at Home program in November 2021. Trista Gish, Registered Nurse, joined VNA’s Home Health program in April 2021 and her daughter, Addison Gish, Certified Nurse Aide, came aboard a few months later in the Help At Home 991 program. They’ve both been a wonderful addition to Visiting Nurses. Home Health patients served in 2021
9,833
Advertisement
Hospice visits in 2021 “I feel we have a wonderful staff that makes VNA special. I am really excited that my 308 daughter is here at VNA. She is doing great. Hospice patients She has learned a lot and is still learning, served in 2021 as we all are.” —Karen Evinger-Irvine “I like working for VNA, and when it comes to working with my mother, it’s better than I thought it would be. She is an excellent aide. She sets a really high bar that I could never match!” —Kit Schrader
19,914
hours of Help at Home care provided in 2021 “I feel Visiting Nurses is unique because it is a smaller organization, and there is a greater opportunity to develop good relationships with other staff. I love that Addie works at VNA and provides care to some of my patients. She is so kind and wonderful to the clients she visits, and I am so proud of her.” —Trista Gish
“Being a part of VNA with my mom makes me proud. I know that the people she cares for are in great hands and will be treated with the same amount of care she has given me growing up.” —Addison Gish
110
Help at Home patients served in 2021
