Home care is often the best option for you or a loved one. Research has shown that being at home improves the quality of life during illness, disability and recuperation. While maintaining your dignity and independence, a case management approach assures that all needed services will be coordinated and tailored to your specific needs. And, all of this is less expensive than a hospital or nursing home stay.
     Perhaps the greatest advantage of home care is that the nurse or therapist can assess an individual's needs within the context of his or her home, which provides a more complete picture of potential barriers to recovery. Further, meeting friends and family members also provides the clinician with the opportunity to teach and reinforce techniques that will advance the healing process. Loved ones have an active and vital role to play.

Why choose the Visiting Nurses of the Lower Valley for your homecare needs?

As a nonprofit, community-based organization, VNLV has over 85 years of experience providing home health services to local residents. With a dedicated and seasoned staff of nurses, therapists and home health aides, our patients continue to rate our services as excellent. We have also been rated in the top 25% of all home care agencies in the United States in terms of the quality of care we provide, and financial management.
     We serve the towns of Essex, Ivoryton, Centerbrook, Deep River, Chester, Killingworth, Haddam, Old Saybrook, Clinton, Westbrook, East Haddam, Lyme and Old Lyme.
     Our stated mission is to enhance the health of the communities we serve through the application of public health measures and the provision of selective health services for purposes of preventing disease or disability, maintaining or restoring health, minimizing the effects of illness and disability, and supporting a peaceful death. Simply stated, our goal is to make every one of our clients as well as possible.

What we do:

Our caring team of home health experts provides services ranging from meal preparation and personal grooming to medical interventions and rehabilitative therapies, which improve health after serious illness. Working closely with your doctor, one of our highly experienced registered nurses will evaluate your needs, develop a care plan designed specifically to maximize your health, and arrange for all necessary services. Simply stated, our goal is to make you as well as you can possibly be.