Nonprofit agency serving the community since 1888, committed to the belief that every individual deserves care and support to preserve independence, dignity, and quality of life. VNA dedicates itself to this belief by providing professional and compassionate health care solutions to people touched by disease, disability, or death. Basic services available throughout each state include health supervision, education, and counseling; bedside care; and carrying out physicians’ orders. Personnel include nurses and home health aides.

Official national association created in 1983 for not-for-profit, community-based home health organizations known as Visiting Nurse Associations (VNAs) . VNAA’s mission is to bring compassionate, high-quality, and cost-effective home care to individuals in their respective communities by promoting community-based home health care through business development, national public imaging, member services, and government advocacy.

Tools developed for access, extraction, and integration of patient-specific information from disparate clinical information systems and visually presenting it to the user.

Collection of information of individuals in regions that relates to births (natality), deaths (mortality), marriages, health, and disease (morbidity). In the United States, these statistics are published by the National Center for Health Statistics.

In workers’ compensation cases, phrase used when an employee meets the requirement that he or she is expected to return to gainful employment after undergoing vocational rehabilitation services.

1. Process of facilitating an individual in the choice of or return to a suitable profession because of permanent or temporary disability. When necessary, assisting the patient to obtain training for such a career. 2. Preparing an individual regardless of age, status (whether U.S. citizen or immigrant), or physical condition (disability other than end-stage renal disease) to cope emotionally, psychologically, and physically with changing circumstances in life including remaining at school or returning to school, work, or work equivalent (homemaker).

In a workers’ compensation case, written document that describes the program designed to give assistance in returning the injured workers to the labor market and provides income while a worker completes a course of study such as academic instruction, formal training, on-the-job training, job placement assistance, or self-employment.

A Medi-Cal telecommunication system for processing urgent and initial drug treatment authorization requests (TARs), to inquire about the status of previously entered drug TARs, or to inquire whether a patient is receiving continual care with a drug.