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Naugatuck VNA Awarded CHAP Accreditation
NAUGATUCK – Community Health Accreditation Program, Inc., (CHAP) announced November 17 that Naugatuck Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) has been awarded CHAP accreditation under the CHAP Community Health Accreditation Standards of Excellence. This is the 15th year CHAP accreditation has been awarded to the Naugatuck VNA. CHAP accreditation demonstrates that Naugatuck VNA meets the industry’s... »
VNA HealthCare recognized nationally
WATERBURY — For the second consecutive year, local home health and hospice care agency VNA HealthCare has been named to the 2010 HomeCare Elite, a compilation of the top-performing home health agencies in the United States. Now in its fifth year, the HomeCare Elite winners are ranked by an analysis of performance measures in... »
Borough health budget up; VNA, HRD to fold?
NAUGATUCK — The borough’s overall health and welfare budget will receive an approximately $32,000 bump in funding over the current year in the 2010-11 budget recently adopted by the joint boards of Mayor and Burgesses and Finance. A subcommittee of the joint boards, comprising Burgess Mindy Fragoso and finance board members Don Carten and... »
Naugatuck VNA celebrates 90th anniversary
NAUGATUCK — At 94, Marie Tortora still relishes her independence. When doctors at Yale-New Haven Hospital said she ought to live with her daughter, she acquiesced for all of two weeks before moving back to her own Oak Terrace apartment. And when the same doctors told Tortora, who has what she describes vaguely as... »






