How Home Health Care and Hospice Make a Difference in People's Lives

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People call us their “visiting angels.” Our care has helped a father walk his daughter down the aisle, a single mom cope with her toddler’s cancer, and thousands of seniors each year continue living at home. Here are just a few of the stories about the ways VNA Care Network & Hospice’s home health care and hospice services make a difference in patients’ and families’ lives.

Home Health Care

Patient’s Life-threatening Wound Heals with Nurses’ Care and Advanced Treatments

Charles LaBella won’t even glance at the wound that nearly took his life. So he chuckles a bit when his nurse from VNA Care Network & Hospice tells him “it looks fabulous." Read more.

Hip Replacement Patient Gets her Life Back After Nursing and Rehab Care at Home

If you want Lynn Maker to slow down, ask about her hip replacement. “I could sit here all day telling you how much I appreciated VNA Care Network’s care,” said Lynn. Read more.

Grandmother Regains Use of Arm with Laser Therapy Treatments and Rehab at Home

Taking one step back from the kitchen sink landed Patricia Dumas in the intensive care unit. After one month in a hospital and rehabilitation facility, she returned home with VNA Care Network & Hospice. Read more.

Veteran See “Enormous Difference” in His Life After Physical Therapy for Knee Replacement

Dennis Hill couldn’t take the pain anymore. “It sometimes took 15 minutes to get out of a chair. I couldn’t walk far. My quality of life was down the tubes,” said Dennis. Read more.

Heart Transplant Patient Regains Health with Support of Cardiac Disease Management Program

Three days before her 35th birthday, Yvette Jimenez received news about an unbelievable gift — she was getting a new heart. Read more.

Hospice

From Your Letters: Patients and Families Grateful for Hospice Care

All in all, my decision to go on hospice was the best decision I have ever made. You have given me some extra months of life and they have been quality months. I greatly appreciate this and thank you all. Read more.

Elizabeth Evarts de Rham Hospice Home at Chilton Street

De Rham Hospice Home Relieves a Family’s Worry and Let’s Them Enjoy Time Together

An aggressive brain tumor was slowly taking Dr. Kenneth (Ken) Dawson from his family. This gentle, intelligent man spent 25 years as a child psychiatrist helping troubled youths and their families. He was given nine to 18 months to live. Read more.

Mother’s Time at de Rham Home Among Happiest in Last Years of Her Life

Even after her mother, Mary Mittell, lost the ability to speak, Janet (Jan) Kinasewich knew Mary was happy at Chilton House (now the de Rham Home). Read more.

Rose Monahan Hospice Home

Time at Rose Monahan Hospice Home Brings Family Closer Than They’d Ever Been

Jeannine Hacanis has wonderful memories of the Rose Monahan Hospice Home in Worcester. Read more.

Hospice Home Resident Lives by his Own Schedule

Jack Bomba, a resident of the Rose Monahan Hospice Home, spends his days according to his own schedule — reading, meditating, watching movies from Netflix, and socializing with his son, grandchildren, and friends. Even his dog Beethoven gets to visit. Read more.

Stanley R. Tippett Home

Tippett Home Takes "Burden From Your Shoulders"

The oncologist was blunt with David and Shirley Hutchins. David had been fighting pancreatic cancer for over a year when he found himself in the hospital again, this time for a liver abscess. Read more.

Families Become Attached to Tippett Home After Experiencing Wonderful Care

There’s something about hospice that’s difficult to put into words, even after Janis Miller’s 11 years of involvement with the Stanley R. Tippett Home. Read more.

Reluctant Traveler Finds a Comfortable Place to Wait

When Bernice Zigman's family learned her diagnosis was terminal, they started hearing the same word again and again. Read more or watch the video.

Tippett Home for Terminally Ill a Source of Support for Family Facing Cancer

It was Christmas Day when Melissa Rober’s family noticed something wasn’t right. Their fun-loving, adventurous sister seemed disoriented and wasn’t acting like herself. Read more.

Family Creates Cherished Memories at the Stanley R. Tippett Home

The red brick house at 920 South Street, Needham, became “Heaven on Earth” for Elizabeth “Betty” Drew and her family. Read more.