File 003 · AgeTech
Record 151 · Care · 1893
93.151.RVisiting Nurse Service of New York
VNS Health
“Lillian Wald's visiting nurses — the American origin of skilled care in the home.”
The nurse comes to the tenement.
Henry Street Settlement sent nurses into New York apartments in 1893. VNSNY / VNS Health is still one of the largest home-health and hospice operators in the country. Every later agency is downstream.
Opened skilled home nursing as a public institution, not a Victorian charity.
Filed notes
- District visiting nursing
- Public-health nursing in the home
- Scale home health + hospice
SIC
8082
Home Health Care Services
NAICS
621610
Home Health Care Services
