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Founded in 1909, Visiting Nurse Connecticut is one of the leading providers of health services and programs to serve the needs of patients at home. It is a nonprofit voluntary and state licensed health care agency providing preventive, healing and support services for mothers and infants, young children, adults and seniors. The center specializes in providing skilled nursing, physical, speech and occupational therapies, medical social work and home health aides. It also offers a wide range of other services, including high tech home therapy, wound care, psychiatric nursing, pain management, a palliative care program, mother, baby and children s services, nutritional counseling, elder care planning and coordination services, and care for the caregivers. The center additionally provides home health telemonitoring and health watch emergency response systems. Visiting Nurse Connecticut also offers its expertise in hospice care programs, including comprehensive end-of-life care, cancer support and grief counseling services. The center is located in Bridgeport, Conn.

Wolcott View Manor is a health care facility that provides a range of inpatient and outpatient services. It offers 24-hour skilled nursing, dental, laboratory and X-ray solutions. The center provides hospice and long-and short-term care services. It specializes in the areas of optometry, podiatry and audiology. The center administers various rehabilitation programs that include physical, occupational and speech therapies. It operates a fully-equipped gymnasium and fitness center. Wolcott View Manor also administers a therapeutic recreational program that features movies and musical and comedy events. The center provides child care, pain and symptom management and bereavement and pastoral consultation services. Its facilities additionally include and on-site beauty salon and barber shop.

We provide high-quality hospice care in East Hartford, wherever you call home. Hospice care gives people facing a terminal illness comfort and a better quality of life. Your personalized care plan may include nursing care, pain and symptom management, hospice aides, emotional and spiritual support, and more. We’re here for you 24/7, with a strong commitment to quality and patient satisfaction. We’re also here for your loved ones, offering social work services, respite care and bereavement counseling. Hospice costs are usually 100% covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance for eligible patients. Tell us your goals and wishes. We’re listening. Call us today to find out how Beacon Hospice Care in East Hartford can help.

If you or a loved one is facing a life-limiting illness, VITAS Healthcare can help. We focus on you, not your disease, to ensure comfort and dignity near the end of life. VITAS provides you and your family with a team of hospice professionals—physician, nurse, hospice aide, social worker, chaplain, volunteer—to meet physical, emotional and spiritual needs. We care for you wherever you call home—a private residence, assisted living community or nursing home. If symptoms become severe, we have Intensive Comfort Care, shifts of 24-hour continuous care until symptoms are under control. For those symptoms that cannot be managed at home, VITAS also provides inpatient hospice beds and units in local hospitals. With VITAS you’re never alone. We’re available 24/7/365, with support available even on holidays and weekends. In the transition from hospital to home, from curative to palliative care, from chronic to end-stage disease, VITAS is with you every step of the way.