Our Ways To Give
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King
Impacting The Lives of Those We Serve
We are honored to be here today, having cared for Georgians for the past 75 years, and to be given the privilege to continue to impact millions of lives. Our Annual Impact Reports reflect the incredible efforts it takes to provide quality care, while navigating the many challenges and changes that occur in our healthcare landscape.
Equal Access to Healthcare for All
In Georgia there is a growing underserved aging population and since 1948, Visiting Nurse has remained the safety-net to provide healthcare at home to the largest number of low-income patients in Georgia. Having a partnership with our community to help provide charitable care funds is our highest funding priority so we may provide access to care for all people. While we make nearly 9,000 charitable care visits each year, there is a rapidly growing need of funding to support the growth of this patient population.
Georgia’s Aging Population by the Numbers
There is a growing need for healthcare and aging services at home.
Georgia’s fastest growing population is 65 and older.
Seniors who live in poverty:
Patients who are seniors:
Senior patients who live in poverty :
The State of Elderly Care in Georgia
Families and businesses experience the economic impact of caregiving.
Caregivers who leave their job:
Caregivers who encounter disruption at work:
Many caregivers suffer loss of wages.
Our Care Continuum
Visiting Nurse brings care into the home through our doctors, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, social workers, chaplains, and nursing assistants. Through our collaborative healthcare partnerships, patients receive what they need to have the best quality of life at home. We coordinate care for our patients to provide services they need, including meals, transportation, daily living support, urgent and primary care at home. Healthcare education also is an important part of our delivery of care as we ensure that our patients and their caregivers receive the information needed for optimal patient outcomes.
Ways To Give
Corporate Giving
Give Through Your Time
We offer volunteer opportunities for individuals, groups and executive leadership.
Become a Healthcare Champion
As an ambassador you will learn how to share our mission to improve the lives of those we serve and bring access to healthcare for everyone. Healthcare Champions are invited to quarterly luncheons and events throughout the year. Partner with us for a healthier community.
Care Packages for Seniors
Bring hope to low-income patients by providing customized care packages including adult diapers, nutrition beverages, hygiene products, shelf-stable meals, cleaning products, socks, and blankets. Care packages may be delivered to us, and our clinical team will deliver to patient homes. Each care package should include card with a list of items and words of encouragement.
Where Your Gift Makes a Direct Impact
Every day, patients and families across our community rely on compassionate care and supportive services that bring comfort, dignity, healing, and hope to vulnerable individuals and families when it matters most.
Empower Lives. Invest in CAPABLE – $5,000
Help older adults remain safe, independent, and healthy in their own homes through support that improves daily living and reduces risk of injury and decline.
Prevent Hospital Visits. Support Remote Patient Monitoring – $2,500
Help high-risk cardiac patients receive early intervention and continuous monitoring that prevents emergencies and keeps them safely at home.
Champion Charitable Care. Give Dignity – $1,000
Many companies offer to match gifts for employees to help maximize community impact. Contact your HR department to begin making a difference.
Bring Peace at Life’s Final Chapter. Fund Hospice Atlanta. $500
Provide compassionate, end-of-life support, including an End-of-Life Doula. This experience brings comfort, presence and dignity to patients and their families.
Build a Legacy of Hope. Sustain Camp STARS – $250
Help children and families grieving a loss find healing, connection, and emotional support through life-changing bereavement care.
Create a Legacy of Care for Future Generations
Honor a Life. Celebrate a Legacy.
A tribute gift is a meaningful way to honor or remember someone special while helping provide compassionate care to patients and families throughout our community.
In Memory Giving
Celebrate the life and legacy of a loved one through a meaningful charitable gift.
In Honor Giving
Recognize a caregiver, family member, healthcare professional, or someone who has made a difference in your life.
Planned Giving: Create a Legacy of Care for Future Generations
A planned gift is a meaningful way to extend your compassion beyond today and ensure that future generations continue to receive dignified, compassionate care at home. Through your legacy, you can help bring comfort, independence, and hope to patients and families when they need it most – today, tomorrow, and for years to come.
Planned gifts are flexible and can be tailored to your personal and financial goals. Common options include gifts through a will or trust, retirement assets, life insurance, real estate, or other charitable planning tools.
Your legacy becomes part of a lasting tradition of care that supports patients, caregivers, and families across our community.
Ways to Leave Your Legacy of Care
You may choose from several types of planned gifts, including:
· Bequests in a will or living trust
· Retirement plan or IRA assets
· Life insurance policies
· Real estate or appreciated assets
· Charitable trusts or donor-advised funds
We encourage you to consult with your attorney or financial advisor to determine the option that best aligns with your goals and intentions.
Sample Bequest Language
The following sample language may be helpful when including Visiting Nurse Health System in your estate plans:
“I give, devise, and bequeath to Visiting Nurse Health System, Inc., a nonprofit corporation located in Atlanta, Georgia, the sum of $_____ (or _____% of my estate, or described asset) to be used for its general charitable purposes.”
Organization Information
- Legal Name: Visiting Nurse Health System, Inc.
- Incorporated: Atlanta, Georgia
- Federal Tax ID: 58-0566250
Community Partners
Thank you to our partners for championing our mission and advancing educating our community members our important work.
Our Healthcare Champions
DOROTHY M. DAVIS
President and CEO
Visiting Nurse Health System
DAN HOLLAND
Chair, Healthcare Champions
Cadence Bank
JAMES CARLOS
Republic National Distributing Company
JORDAN BENNETT
Cigna Healthcare
MARILYN BOOKER
Volunteer
MAURICE BAKER
Georgia Natural Gas
DEE LANE EADES
DLE, Inc.
DAVID GHEGAN
Troutman Pepper
JAY HARRIS
King & Spalding
FLORENCE HAY LURANC
Volunteer
ANDREW BROCKINGTON
Mutual of America
BARRY KOCH
TGBeyond
BENNETT BROWN
Low Country BBQ
ALFREDA MAYES
Redmond Law Group
BRITTON MCLEOD
HOME Luxury Real Estate
LAURA PEAS
Bank of America
WENDY RACE
AlphaGraphics
EMILY HUTMACHER
Wellstar
STAN SHARP
Merril Lynch
BILLS SMITH
Double Iron Consulting
ERIC THORNTON
FirmCare Life Sharing
JILL MAULL
Kaiser Permanente
PAIGE VOHS
Naborforce
BAOKY VU
Forthright Investments
KERRY POPE
Odyssey Black Luxury Car Service
LAURA MEDDERS
Emory Healthcare
MICHELE BLONDHEIM
Aprio
MONICA LASCALA
Consultant
REGINALD DEROSLARD
Genuine Parts
SHANNON DRAKE
Independent Living Systems
TINA R. McCREA
Without A Trace Ministries
VONETTA DANIELS
Consultant
JASON ANAVITARTE
CareSource
Your Solution to Healthcare and Aging Services, In Your Home
Thank you for investing in a mission that improves lives of those we serve.
Connect with Us on Instagram
📣Open Enrollment: Navigating Medicare Choices
Visiting Nurse Health System and Hospice Atlanta want to help you stay informed and make the best choices for your healthcare coverage.
Medicare Open Enrollment is October 15 – December 7.
This is your opportunity to review your current coverage, compare plans, and make changes for the year ahead.
✅ Review your current Medicare coverage
✅ Compare plans, benefits, and costs
✅ Make sure your doctors, prescriptions, and services are covered
Your health and peace of mind matter to us! Take time to review your options and make informed decisions about your care.
Medicare: Annual Open Enrollment is October 15–December 7, 2026. Beneficiaries can review and change Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans.
Medicaid: There is no annual Open Enrollment period in Georgia. Eligible individuals can apply year-round, and current beneficiaries can renew or update their information as needed
Learn more at:
Medicare.gov or call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227).
Georgia Medicaid at gateway.ga.gov or call 1-877-423-4746
For questions about eligibility, applications, renewals, or updating your information.
#MedicareOpenEnrollment #SeniorHealth #VisitingNurseHealthSystem #HospiceAtlanta
⭐ Excellence in Care, Right at Home!
Visiting Nurse’s Home Health division is proud to have our patients give a 4-Star Rating! We are proud to bring quality care into our patients` home each day, and this award is a genuine reflection of our commitment to delivering exceptional care, improving outcomes, and helping patients live safely and independently at home.
Congratulations to our incredible Home Health team for making a difference in the lives of those we serve every day!
#visitingnursehealthsystem #HomeHealth #QualityCare #4StarRating
As we close October, National Physical Therapy Month, we’ve had a great time celebrating our Physical Therapists (PT) and Physical Therapist Assistants (PTA). The great work they do each day lives on year long, helping patients stay strong, mobile, and independent at home. Thank you PTs! #PTMonth #gratitude
🎃 No tricks, just treats, and a whole lot of TRUE care! 🧡
Our Visiting Nurse Health System / Hospice Atlanta team is out and about this Halloween, bringing comfort, compassion, and a little extra care to patients right where they call home. Because the sweetest treat is knowing you`re cared for! 👻🩺
#VisitingNurse #TRUECare #Halloween #CareAtHome
Celebrating our employee of the month! Congratulations!
Visiting Nurse celebrated our Home Health Physical Therapists this week in recognition of PT Appreciation Month!
For more than 78 years, we’ve served Atlanta, helping patients regain strength, improve mobility and maintain independence at home. We are grateful to our PTs for the skill, compassion and dedication they bring to our patients every day.
To all of our PTs/PTAs, thank you for the work you do, the lives you touch and the difference you make for Visiting Nurse and the families we serve!
#ptappreciationmonth#homehealthcare#physicaltherapy#visitingnursehealthsystem #agingathome
The hidden caregiving crisis is a workforce issue, and a critical part of the ongoing conversation about the future of aging at home.
We’d like to thank everyone who joined us today for the Visiting Nurse Healthcare Champions Event: Leadership Conversations That Drive Change, hosted by Genuine Parts Company.
A special thank-you to Genuine Parts Company’s Renay Blumenthal, Sr. Director, Corporate Giving & Community Relations, for leading the day’s event with a warm welcome, and kicking off the day’s amazing line up of speakers.
Honored to have this event moderated by Crystal Edmonson of the Atlanta Business Chronicle, we are very grateful for our panelists for sharing their leadership expertise and perspectives on the growing demands facing working family caregivers and how employers can help support them:
• Rachel Cannady, Senior Associate Director, Caregiving, The Carter Center
• Keisha Olinger, Region Leader, Marsh People and Investments, Mid-South
• Eric Barker, Analyst, Senior Health & Welfare, Southern Company
Thank you to our own President and CEO, Dorothy Davis, for speaking today, and continuing to bring community leaders together to keep this important conversation going, critical to addressing the future of healthcare in our communities. At Visiting Nurse, we see firsthand how family caregivers help older adults remain safe, comfortable and independent at home. Yet balancing caregiving responsibilities with work and family life can create significant challenges for our own employees, employers and families.
Supporting caregivers is essential to helping seniors age with dignity in the place they call home. By bringing business and community leaders together, we can raise awareness, explore meaningful workplace solutions and strengthen the support systems families need. Because caring for those who care for others matters, too.
Thank you to Genuine Parts Company for hosting this important conversation and Huntington Bank for sponsoring our Healthcare Champions series. Together, we can help build healthier workplaces, stronger families and more supportive communities for Georgia’s aging population.
The future of aging at home starts with all of us!
Grateful our Healthcare Champions, with the generous support of event sponsor Arnall Golden Gregory LLP, brought together key community leaders, partners and distinguished guests for an important conversation about the future of healthcare and aging in Georgia.
Lead by nationally-recognized healthcare attorney Bill A. Dombi, Arnall Golden Gregory LLP (AGG), and Visiting Nurse President and CEO Dorothy Davis, this important conversation investigated how healthcare, business, philanthropy and public policy can work together to strengthen the infrastructure, innovation and partnerships that help Georgians age safely, independently and with dignity at home. Including Georgia`s healthcare community leaders, changemakers and valued community partners in attendance, the room was filled with people committed to shaping what comes next.
Thank you to all of our guests who joined the conversation, with a very special thank you to Bill Dombi for leading the day`s event. Thank you to our host Arnall Golden Gregory LLP for sponsoring this important event.
#VisitingNurseHealthSystem #HealthcareChampions #AgingAtHome #HealthcareLeadership #GeorgiaHealthcare #HospiceCare
Happy National Case Management Week!
And a little appreciation goes a long way, as Phillip Walters, of Hospice Atlanta, made life a little sweeter joining Northside Hospital’s Case Management Vendor Event! Sharing important resources and information on critical care, a great time was had celebrating these dedicated case managers who make a difference for patients and families every day.
Thank you for all you do, and a shout out to our local Scrumpt bakery for helping make their special week even sweeter! #NationalCaseManagementWeek #HospiceAtlanta
⭐ 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. ⭐
#CampStars#hospiceatlanta#visitingnursehealthsystem#campvolunteers#griefsupport#MakingADifference
