Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Litchfield County (VNHLC) will no longer provide blood pressure clinics at the Norfolk Hub, but will continue all its other health care, hospice and home assistance programs.
“We are still definitely serving Norfolk” said the group’s director of community relations, Joanna Geiger. “That is not going away. We were just not getting anyone at the blood pressure clinics.” She added that residents are welcome to attend other clinics held around Litchfield County.
For more information, call 860-379-8561 or visit their website.
Geiger said that VNHLC provides a range of services by professionals such as physical, occupational and speech therapists; registered nurses; medical social workers, and home health aides.
“Our main thing is home health care,” she said. A referral from a hospital discharge planner or a physician is required to receive these services.
Hospice care is provided when a patient is dealing with a life-limiting illness. It does not focus on curing an illness, but supplies patients and their families with physical care, emotional support, pain and symptom management, spiritual support and the companionship of specially trained volunteers.
Services are covered by Medicare and Medicaid as well as many private insurance plans. Towns also provide grants for VNA services. In 2024-25 the town of Norfolk has budgeted $13,000 for this purpose.