Visiting Nurse & Health Services of Connecticut, Inc.

Specialty Programs

With the changes taking place in the health care systems, patients are being discharged from hospitals and nursing homes quicker. In today's managed care environment, home care and specialized care go hand-in-hand.

We offer specialty services with advanced practice nurses in the following areas:

In-Home Cardiac Rehabilitation & TeleHealth Monitoring:

Our nurses are highly trained in in-home care and cardiac rehabilitation and are fully trained in cardiac arrhythmia detection and defibrillation. They are certified in advanced and/or basic life support.

IV-High Tech Home Care

Highly qualified validated nurse specialists provide a wide range of infusion therapies from antibiotics to pain management.

In-Home Mental Health:

This program emphasizes patient education, medication management and symptom control. The ultimate goal of the program is the complete return of the patient to the care of the community providers of mental health.

Wound and Ostomy Care:

This program focuses on the complex nursing needs of persons with serious wounds and of those persons sustaining major bladder or intestinal surgery such as colostomies, ileostomies and urinary ostomies. Assistance is provided with client’s wound care, dressing changes, ostomy appliance changes, psychological and educational support.

Diabetes Management:

Incorporating nutrition counseling, skilled nursing and education on diabetes, specially trained nurses assist clients in living comfortable and productive lives within the confines of the disease process.

Palliative Care

This program provides symptom management and pain control related to a disease process which may or may not be life threatening.