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The Certified Home Health Agency

The Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service’s Certified Home Health Agency provides skilled nursing, medical social work, physical and occupational therapy and home health aide services to adults and children residing in East Harlem. We serve residents from 96th Street north to 132nd, and from 5th Avenue to the East River. Patients are of all ages, but more than half are children and pregnant and post partum women. Home visits are family centered and we link families to other programs within the Agency as needed. Many of the families referred to the nursing program are the very poor and the marginalized who, “fall between the cracks” of the larger institutions.

The Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA) is staffed by five community health nurses and an administrator and nursing supervisor. It includes three special programs that address acute needs of the East Harlem community: The Maternity Outreach Program, the Asthma Prevention/Intervention Program, and the Diabetes Program.

Quote from a Client:
“The visiting nurse was kind and patient. The visiting nurse came at the right time in my life, just when I needed a nurse.”