Mission

VNA is dedicated to providing the highest quality health care to residents of the Central Coast by meeting their individual needs in a caring, effective, honorable, and accessible manner.

The Big Idea

Central Coast VNA & Hospice has been serving the Monterey Peninsula for 73+ years. Whether a patient is recovering from an illness or injury or facing life’s end, VNA provides high quality, compassionate, and individualized health care in the comforts of home.
VNA Connections meets an important community need for FREE professional advice and counseling in navigating the complexities of the health care system and coordinating community resources for in-home care. Our VNA Connections Team is available to help patients and families identify caregiving options, transportation, and food resources, coordinate community services, understand advance directives and health benefits, and receive emotional support and counseling. Our patients have many insurance types, and some plans are insufficient and difficult to understand. Although community resources are available, patients and families are often unaware of them. VNA Connections help bridge these information gaps with the help of skilled and caring professionals.

VNA Connections is a great program because it allows us to help patients with life-limiting illnesses, who have graduated from hospice or palliative care services. Both previous and prospective patients and their families feel very supported with our check-in calls from social workers. Patients and their families typically call VNA Connections Social Workers when their health conditions change, and they feel they may need nursing services again. Patients also call us when they have resource needs or don't know what resources are available to them. I enjoy staying connected with my patients and being able to continue providing assistance as needed.

- Joanna D.