Our Story
For over 65 years, Visiting Nurse Service & Hospice of Suffolk (VNSHS) has been caring for patients in Suffolk County, New York. Our professional staff is committed to treating patients with kindness and dignity, while helping them achieve their maximum level of health. We are an independent not-for-profit home health care provider and hospice who is dedicated to its mission:
- Provide health health services of the highest quality
- Enable people to function as independently as possible in their homes and communities
- Promote individual, family and community health
- Maintain a tradition of charitable and compassionate care
- Provide and maintain quality of life the terminally ill thoughout the dying process and bereavement period
There is no charge for an initial assessment. VNSHS will help patients determine what is covered by insurance. As a certified home health care and hospice agency, we bill Medicare, Medicaid and many other insurance companies.
VNSHS is uniquely qualified to provide quality health care in the home. Home health care services may include registered nurses, enterostomal therapy and wound care, physical, speech and occupational therapies, home health aide care, medical social workers, hospice at home, infusion therapy and more.
Our inpatient hospice house, located in East Northport, NY is an eight bed inpatient unit designed specifically to meet the needs of terminally ill patients and their families as they face the end of life.
