Wound Care Program
Our Wound Care Program provides specialized care in the comfort and safety of the patient’s home. The program is designed for patients recovering from surgery, managing a chronic or complex wound, or requiring ongoing ostomy or continence support. Visiting Nurse Health System’s goal is to promote healing, prevent complications, reduce avoidable hospitalizations, and help patients regain independence.
The program includes clinical oversight by a certified Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurse (WOCN). The WOCN collaborates with the patient’s physician or authorized provider and the home health care team to guide evidence-based treatment, evaluate healing progress, recommend changes to the plan of care, and provide education to patients, caregivers, and clinicians.
Highly skilled Visiting Nurse professionals provide expert wound assessment and treatment with compassion, understanding, and respect. We help patients and caregivers gain the knowledge and confidence needed to safely manage wound care between visits while relieving some of the burden placed on families.
Home health wound care requires an order from a physician or authorized provider and is covered by Medicare and many insurance plans when eligibility requirements are met. Services are provided according to the patient’s individualized plan of care and may include:
- Comprehensive wound assessments and measurements
- Individualized wound treatment plans
- WOCN consultation and clinical oversight
- Coordination with physicians, surgeons, wound clinics, and other providers
- Negative-pressure wound therapy management
- Advanced dressing selection and application
- Ostomy assessment, education, and support
- Pressure-injury prevention and treatment
- Infection monitoring and early identification of complications
- Pain and symptom-management education
- Nutritional education to support wound healing
- Patient and caregiver training
- Ongoing monitoring of wound-healing progress
Below are some of the conditions our Wound Care Program can help manage:
- Pressure injuries
- Diabetic foot ulcers
- Venous and arterial ulcers
- Surgical wounds
- Nonhealing and chronic wounds
- Traumatic wounds
- Severe skin tears
- Wounds requiring negative-pressure wound therapy
- Ostomies
- Moisture-associated skin damage
- Continence-related skin complications
“Part of hospice is taking care of the patient while they’re here, but also the family after the patient’s gone.” – Lanise Shortell, RN CHPPN, CPLC, Pediatric Hospice Nurse
Just because you’re going home, you don’t have to go alone. If you need home health services, rely on the most trusted provider in Georgia, Visiting Nurse Health System. For more information call (404) 215-6000.
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⭐ Camp STARS 2026 is getting ready to shine! ⭐
Our Camp STARS volunteers and facilitators came together Saturday for a meaningful training workshop to prepare for our campers this November!
From learning and sharing ideas, together our volunteers planned grief-group activities designed to help children and families connect, express their feelings and grow through their journeys of grief. 💙
Prepared for Camp weekend, filled with moments that matter, these dedicated leaders are ready to make Camp STARS a meaningful and memorable experience for our families.
Thank you to our amazing Camp STARS volunteers and facilitators for showing up with heart and purpose!
We’re so grateful for the heart, creativity and compassion our Camp STARS volunteers bring to this special weekend. ⭐
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First in Georgia!
Visiting Nurse is proud to announce that our HeartCare at Home™ program is the first home health program in Georgia certified by the American Heart Association® for Home Health–Heart Failure care.
Because heart failure care doesn’t stop when a patient leaves the hospital. This certification reflects our commitment to evidence-based, high-quality care and our dedicated clinicians who bring specialized heart failure support directly to patients where they are most comfortable, in the place they call home.
After 78 years, we’re proud to continue advancing care at home. ❤️
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We are so grateful for our volunteers who give their time, compassion and heart to serve our patients and families in need.
What a beautiful reminder of the lasting impact a caring volunteer can make through companionship, connection and simply being present.
Thank you to our volunteers for the meaningful difference you make for our patients and families every day.
Visiting Nurse | Hospice Atlanta was proud to celebrate National Assisted Living Week all month long, with celebrations honoring the national theme “Shining Through the Years.”
We enjoyed celebrating with the residents and team at Brookdale Carrollton, GA, honoring the lives, stories and connections that make every year meaningful. (pictured below)
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🌟Congratulations to our Employee of the Month! 🌟
Please join us in celebrating our Hospice Atlanta Nurse Tasha for her dedication, hard work and commitment to our Hospice Atlanta patients and families. We thank you for all you do for our patients, families and team!
👏 Congratulations, Tasha!
Team Hospice Atlanta proudly participated in this year`s Kaiser Permanente’s Run, Walk & Roll 5K! As a valued healthcare partner, we are grateful for the opportunity to join forces and come together to support health, wellness and a healthier community.
Thank you to everyone who represented Hospice Atlanta and Visiting Nurse Health System. We are proud to support events that bring our healthcare partners and community together to in health!
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Georgia is aging. Are we ready?
Join Visiting Nurse Health System`s Healthcare Champions for The Future of Aging at Home-What Georgia Must Do Next, Friday, October 9, as we bring healthcare, business, philanthropy and public policy leaders together for an important conversation about the future of aging in our state.
We’ll explore how Georgia can strengthen infrastructure, encourage innovation, build collaboration and shape policies that support people aging at home.
Hosted by Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, featuring Bill A. Dombi as our keynote speaker.
Friday, October 9, 2026
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Complimentary Executive Luncheon Space is limited
Let’s shape what comes next, together.
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Hospice Atlanta was proud to be out in the community today at JenCare Riverdale’s Patient Appreciation Event!
Visiting Nurse Health System / Hospice Atlanta is proud to partner with JenCare, bringing care, education and resources to our Atlanta communities, and working together to improve patients` quality of life, through both Palliative Care and Hospice programs.
Through these dynamic partnerships, we help our communities thrive, by allowing us to move beyond simply providing services, truly making a difference through quality healthcare and better results for the patients and families we serve.
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At Visiting Nurse, the work we do is mission-driven.
Every visit, every conversation and every act of care is an opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life and to serve our community when it matters most.
This Labor Day, we’re grateful for our employees who keep moving forward, showing up and making a difference every day.
Thank you for all you do.
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At Visiting Nurse Health System and Hospice Atlanta, we’re honored to care for the veterans in our community, recognizing not only their healthcare needs, but the lives, sacrifices and service that shaped who they are.
From bringing compassionate care into their home, we’re committed to making sure those who served our country are treated with the dignity, respect and gratitude they deserve.
We are honored to serve those who served. 🇺🇸
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