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Hospice Care or Palliative Care9/13/2022  What is the difference between hospice care and palliative care? We find that many people are confused about the difference between hospice and palliative care. It is subtle. Hospice care helps people nearing the end of life to live in comfort and dignity, surrounded by family and friends. Care includes pain management, counseling, and spiritual support. Hospice care also provides services to the patient’s family during and after the patient’s death, such as respite care and bereavement counseling. While hospice typically begins when a patient has 6 months or less to live, palliative care starts much sooner. Comfort care, also known as palliative care, for those with terminal or potentially incurable illnesses may be required before an end-of-life diagnosis. Comfort care provides pain management, counseling, and family assistance. The Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey (VNA) provides home care for any stage of life, including end-of-life care. Our Hospice at Home provides both hospice and palliative care, including pain management, and emotional and spiritual support to the patient and family. VNA can coordinate transfers between an individual’s home and an inpatient hospice unit if this is needed. Get to know Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey (VNA) now, and all the home health services available to you and your loved ones, before you have a health emergency. We are proud to be the longest-serving VNA in the state of New Jersey, so we know a thing or two about helping seniors. The Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey (VNA) is a leading provider of comprehensive home health care services in Morris, Hunterdon, Sussex, and Warren Counties in Northern New Jersey. Established in 1898, generations have known that just one call to VNA opens the door to quality, patient-centered home health care solutions that allow patients to remain in the comfort of their homes with dignity, health, and independence. © All content on The Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey's website, including blog posts, may be reproduced only if attributed to our organization with a link to vnannj.org.
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Home Health Care Needs Your Help9/6/2022  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) wants to cut Home Care reimbursements by an unprecedented $810 million. This cut would be particularly damaging to home health agencies, like Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey (VNA), who are already suffering from increased inflation, staffing challenges, rising fuel prices, and unprecedented costs of COVID-19 procedures and supplies. Since 1898, VNA has been providing care in the home that is proven to be the preferred choice for seniors and people with disabilities. Reducing payments to home health agencies threatens access to this vital care. Please click on this link to send a message to your congressional representatives. Get to know Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey (VNA) now, and all the home health services available to you and your loved ones, before you have a health emergency. We are proud to be the longest-serving VNA in the state of New Jersey, so we know a thing or two about helping seniors. The Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey (VNA) is a leading provider of comprehensive home health care services in Morris, Hunterdon, Sussex, and Warren Counties in Northern New Jersey. Established in 1898, generations have known that just one call to VNA opens the door to quality, patient-centered home health care solutions that allow patients to remain in the comfort of their homes with dignity, health, and independence. © All content on The Visiting Nurse Association of Northern New Jersey's website, including blog posts, may be reproduced only if attributed to our organization with a link to vnannj.org.
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