Our non-profit mission at NVNA and Hospice is to provide quality home health care, wellness, and public health services in the community. NVNA and Hospice delivers high quality patient care, in the comforting environment of home. We are neighbors helping neighbors promoting wellness and public health services in our community.
In 1920, we began with one visiting nurse and are now a vibrant organization bringing compassionate care to nearly 30 towns. We support what everyone wants-care at home. Advanced technology helps us care for complex patients in the comfort of their own home, surrounded by friends and family. When your doctor, hospital or skilled nursing facility recommends home, palliative or hospice care.
In 1920, we began with one visiting nurse and are now a vibrant organization bringing compassionate care to nearly 30 towns. We support what everyone wants-care at home. Advanced technology helps us care for complex patients in the comfort of their own home, surrounded by friends and family. When your doctor, hospital or skilled nursing facility recommends home, palliative or hospice care.
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In 1920 women gained the right to vote, Prohibition began, and the Spanish flu pandemic was a recent memory. Our first President, Amy Sylvester, set out on a mission to help her Norwell neighbors that we carry on to this day. Our doors first opened in 1920 as the Norwell Visiting Nurse Association charged with bringing essential health service and education into the home of our community.
NVNA WORKS is a non-profit affiliate of NVNA and Hospice, a non-profit home health care and hospice agency founded in 1920. We offer full range of private pay home care services to keep people healthy and safe in their homes. We go to wherever home may be - apartment, house, family home, senior residence, assisted living community, or skilled nursing facility - in over 27 communities throughout the South Shore.
Amy Sylvester founds the organization after selling pies at the Marshfield Fair to help fund it. The Pat Roche Hospice Home opens on Hingham's Turkey Hill as the first non-profit residence of the South Shore. Our Founder, Amy Sylvester, knew that her South Shore neighbors needed quality healthcare when she started in 1920.
Our team understands the pressure on a busy hospital, physician office and SNF/ALF staff. We are a good partner with case managers and can accept patients 24/7, weekends and holidays. We share the same goals: to keep your patients safe and home. Physician Guide to Medicare Home Health Changes: The Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM).
Thank you for considering us for your care. It is easy to get started, just call us at (781) 659-2342. Our charitable mission is to provide quality home health care, wellness, and public health services in our community. Our patients and families always come first. We offer the full continuum of care - whether you just need some physical therapy and housekeeping help after hip surgery or are facing life-limiting illness.
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Deborah Terry
Jul 29, 2021
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Justin Richard
Jan 16, 2021
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We had NVNA for several weeks come into our home to care for our father. We had good and bad experiences. Ultimately if we had to do it again we would go elsewhere. It was clear on several occasions that the visiting nurse was not trained on the procedure she was sent to carry out. This resulted in an unnecessary emergency trip to the ER in the back of an ambulance. NVNA later apologized for the error in carrying out the procedure. Which we were all dumbfounded by. We trusted them and they let us down! If that wasn’t enough after my father died they were incredibly rude and aggressive in trying
Judy Walsh
Jul 02, 2019
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Had NVNA for a short period of time before my uncle passed on 5-12-19. I honestly can not say enough about the hospice care he received during his last 2 week's, they are Angel's on earth🙏. I had no idea how much I needed the help until I received the help. I was still there but they were only a call away. His last day they were Amazing while I was trying to keep it together while falling apart, they truly made it so much easier for him and me as well. I will forever be grateful to the NVNA. May God Bless them all 🙏
Judy MacPherson
Jun 23, 2019
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Mary King
Jan 16, 2019
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I recently had a right knee replacement operation and was not looking forward to therapy because I had already gone through a left knee replacement 5 years ago and knew how aggressive the therapy is. Even though I know how important it is, I still dreaded it. I contacted NVNA for my in-home therapy and the day after I was released from the hospital, a PT came to see me. My therapists name is Terry and she was the best thing that happened to me after the surgery. She is professional, caring, has a wonderful personality and treats you like family. I honestly can't say enough about her. She takes
