Hospice Care
The VNA’s hospice program promotes dignity and quality of life during a person’s last months of life. This specially coordinated, comprehensive home care program provides skilled care and comfort to children and adults with terminal illness, allowing them to enjoy their last months surrounded by the people they love in a setting that is familiar and comfortable for them.
A team that includes nurses, social workers, licensed nursing assistants, trained volunteers, clergy, support staff, a bereavement coordinator, and a medical director delivers the hospice care. Members of the team work to manage symptoms, with a special focus on pain control, to increase and enhance the quality of life for the patient.
Hospice offers support for individuals, encouraging them to keep as much control as possible over their circumstances, care decisions and environment, while also supporting the family. Care is tailored to the unique physical, spiritual and emotional needs of each patient and family.
Hospice care is available wherever one chooses to reside – in private homes, extended nursing homes, assisted living facilities, the hospital, and in the VNA’s Vermont Respite House.
Interested in becoming a Hospice volunteer? Visit our Volunteer page to learn more about our Hospice volunteer program.
The Hospice Program occasionally has need of items from baby monitors to gift cards. To view their current list of needs as well as the wish lists from other programs check out our Wish List page.
For more information about our hospice program, please contact:
Angel Collins, MS, RN
Director of End of Life Services
(802) 860-4412
collinsREMOVETHISBEFORESENDING@vnacares.org