History

1967
VNA of El Paso opened Dec. 1 with two nurses including Sister Marcelline Hain, R.N., VNA’s first executive director. It was El Paso’s first home health agency.

1970
VNA was certified as a United Way agency.

1973
VNA added speech and occupational therapists to its staff.

1976
VNA becomes El Paso’s first agency to offer long-term care services in the home.

1990
VNA moves to its fifth location on Missouri Street where it operated for 16 years. VNA’s original location was in a single room in the basement of R.E. Thomason General Hospital.

1992
VNA is El Paso’s first home care agency to offer the Community Living Assistance and Support Services program (CLASS). The program helps people who have been developmentally disabled prior to age 22 to live in the community and out of institutions.

1993
VNA is El Paso’s first and only home care agency to offer citywide flu vaccinations.

1995
VNA launches hospice care, a move that effectively makes VNA El Paso’s most complete home health care agency.

1996
VNA is one of the first agencies in El Paso to utilize handheld computers for in-home documentation of patient care.

2002
VNA earned its first CHAP accreditation for excellence in community health practice.

2004
Beatrice “Bitty” Gladstone, community leader and VNA founder, passed away April 30.

2006
VNA moves to its sixth location off Executive Center at 4171 N. Mesa.