VNH is home to the foremost team of home health experts for communities in Vermont and New Hampshire. In more than 140 towns, we deliver excellence in nursing, rehabilitation, hospice, and personal care services with proven effectiveness, integrity and compassion.
As a non-profit, our only goal is helping people. When you or someone you love requires care, come home to unmatched expertise and proven success based on more than a century of local experience.
Our mission
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
Our Pledge
As the area’s foremost team of home health care experts, we deliver nursing, rehabilitation, and hospice services with proven effectiveness, integrity, and compassion.
We are driven by a focus on excellence and a spirit of innovation, from improving systems of care to improving individual lives.
Our relationship with each client is rooted in respect — for the families whose homes we are privileged to enter, for the communities we are honored to serve, and for all the lives we touch.
Our vision and values
At VNH we are committed to providing the highest quality care where patients heal best—at home. As a member of Dartmouth Health, we are uniquely positioned to have an incredible impact on the communities we serve, through the high and growing demand for home health care as well as through partnership with other members of the health system. Our commitment is to provide the highest quality care at the lowest cost setting, offering the best care for patients at all stages of life.
P - People and teamwork
R - Respect
I - Innovation
D - Dedication
E - Excellence and accountability
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
Read about our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging on the Dartmouth Health website
VNH history
The local home nursing movement started in Windsor, Vermont in 1907. Many visiting nurses organizations grew and thrived in communities throughout the area over the decades.
Changes in health care reimbursement policies made it necessary to combine resources to create more sustainable organizations, and, over time, a number of smaller visiting nurse and hospice organizations merged to become today's VNH.
Timeline
- 1907: VNA services initiated in Windsor, VT.
- 1953: VNA offers first New Hampshire services in Hanover.
- 1978: Hospice of the Upper Valley founded to support end-of-life care.
- 1983: Medicare initiates Hospice benefit as reimbursement for end-of-life care.
- 1992: VNA/VNH is formed from the merger of VNA of Southeastern VT, Mascoma Home Health Services, Gifford Community Health Services, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital Home Health Agency, Home and Community Health Care of the Upper Valley, Windsor Regional Home Health Agency, and Woodstock Visiting Nurse Association.
- 1994: Lyme Home Health Agency joins VNA/VNH.
- 1995: Hospice of the Upper Valley merges with VNA/VNH.
- 1996: Randolph Area Hospice aligns with VNA/VNH.
- 2001: Southern Vermont Home Health Agency merges with VNA/VNH, bringing the total number of towns served in VT and NH to 86.
- 2004: VNA/VNH becomes the Visiting Nurse Association & Hospice of Vermont and New Hampshire.
- 2007: 100th anniversary of VNA services in Vermont is celebrated.
- 2014: VNA/VNH becomes VNH – Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire.
- 2016: VNH becomes an affiliate of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.