Home-care providers facilitate healing

November is National Home Care Month. This celebration recognizes all providers who go into homes and give care to individuals dealing with short-term illness, chronic health conditions and/or disabilities. Throughout the United States, millions of people depend on home-care services to recover and/or cope with their illnesses/disabilities.

Home-care providers often find that patients recover from illness or surgery quicker and with higher satisfaction when they are in the familiar surroundings of their own home rather than in another care setting.

Our Visiting Nurse Association Home Care patients tell us that our nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapist and home-care aides have helped them learn more about taking care of themselves, assisted them with care they couldn't perform and helped them recognize warning signs needing attention. Most of all, our patients express appreciation for our home care staff.

For more than 62 years, the Visiting Nurse Association has been a part of the Iowa City and Johnson County community. My staff and I are proud to be helping people improve their health and remain independent in their own homes.

Suellen Novotny

Executive director,

Visiting Nurse Association of Johnson County

Iowa City