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- EIN 59-2386289
- (305) 294-8812
- Po Box 749 Gainesville FL 32627-0749 USA
- www.vnahospicekeys.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Hospices, Human Services
Mission: To enable individuals to remain in their homes by providing compassionate, effective, life-enhancing health and supportive services. This is accomplished through our hospice and home health programs, which are rendered without regard to the recipients' inability to pay, and private duty program.
Programs: Hospice: our hospice program was started by the community in 1984, and became state licensed and medicare certified in that year. Since then we have been providing end-of-life care to people in the florida keys. The services include counseling by physicians, nurses, home care aides, social workers and spiritual counselors. We also provide the necessary medical equipment, supplies and care for pain control and symptom management. Over our 30 years, we've provided care for thousands of people in the island community where we are known simply as "hospice". We have touched the lives of many more by our compassionate care of families and friends and by providing bereavement support after the passing of loved ones. In this last year we implemented a program to provide palliative care to people in monroe county who are still receiving curative treatment and who may benefit from the expertise in symptom management and emotional and spiritual care provided by our hospice clinicians. During this fiscal year we provided care for approximately 49 hospice patients each month. We are proud that we are able to help our community and our neighbors in their times of need.
vna: our visiting nurse association (vna) program provides home health care. Under a physician's direction, we provide services such as nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy and personal care. These services are for the treatment of illnesses or injuries that keep people in their home, and which may be acute or chronic. Our goals are to help patients recover and return to former levels of functioning or to assist them in adapting to chronic illness and changes in functional abilities. In our community, we cared for an average of over 129 home health patients each month of this fiscal year.
life at home, our private duty service program, delivers the caring assistance needed when changes in function, due to illness or other impairments makes it difficult to perform everyday tasks, such as showering, preparing meals or remembering to take medications. With our private duty program we cared for another 128 people each month and are the direct service provider for monroe county to provide in-home services to elderly and disabled county residents.