Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan's
distinguished history:

	1898 Nurse Alice Bowen establishes Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Michigan. She stated, "I will establish district nursing here (Detroit) or starve in the attempt!" Years later, she recounted, "I did not starve, but I went hungry many times."
	1906 VNA establishes the first tuberculosis clinic with the Detroit Board of Health.
	1910 VNA works with the Detroit Board of Health to improve infant health. The first infant welfare clinic opens four years later.
	1911 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is the first to pay VNA for home visits to industrial policyholders. Prior to this all service was covered by charity.
	1916 Ford Motor Company arranges for VNA nurses to care for physically challenged children of employees.
	1918 VNA collaborates with the YMCA and the Urban League as charter members of the Detroit Patriotic Fund, the forerunner of the Detroit Community Fund and the United Foundation.
	1934 VNA establishes the "Curative Workshop for Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy," the forerunner of the Rehabilitation Institute of the Detroit Medical Center.
	1940 VNA helps establish the Wayne and Macomb County health departments.
	1966 VNA establishes the Mom and Tots Family Center.
	1983 VNA is the first home care agency to provide service to AIDS patients.
	1984 VNA Home Support Services opens its doors to provide private duty care.
	1988 VNA provides care to Michigan's first artificial heart transplant recipient, and to Michigan's first set of quintuplets.
	1989 VNA establishes AIDS prevention education programs to residents and transients in Cass Corridor and at a variety of homeless shelters and warming centers throughout southeast Michigan.
	1994 VNA begins a community flu immunization program and later expands the program to offer pneumonia, Hepatitis A and B and meningitis immunizations.
	1994 VNA Hospice is established.
	1998 VNA celebrates its 100 years of service. Throughout this period, VNA promotes a consistent goal: to provide individualized home care services to maximize the health, independence, dignity and comfort of patients and their families.
	1998 VNA creates the VNA Training Institute to begin providing career training as home health aides to low-income individuals.
	2001 VNA receives a Heritage Award from the Detroit 300 Recognition Committee.
	2001 VNA announces acquisition of Renaissance Home Health Care.
	2001 The Visiting Nurse Association Training Institute (VNATI) receives approval to provide Certified Nurse Assistant Training (CENA).
	2001 VNA introduces the Sherman Award to honor excellence in VNA home health aides.
	2002 Joan Gumbel, RN, BSN, director of VNA Hospice named president of Michigan Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.
	2002 The VNA Training Institute (VNATI) was one of the top three recipients out of 50 to receive $300,000 in funding over two years from the Detroit Empowerment Zone. The monies will be used for a training center in the Empowerment Zone which will train 60 low-skilled persons for rewarding home health care paraprofessional and certified nurse assistant careers.
	2002 In collaboration with the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA), VNA community Programs implemented its first Anthrax immunizations to three Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) workers for the Detroit region.
	2002 VNASM began accepting patients in their TeleHomecare program for the management of heart failure.
	2003 VNASM is one of seven sites in the area to offer the new FDA-approved 20-minute HIV test, OraQuick.
	2003 VNA begins offering public immunizations for Meningitis.
	2004 VNA's "shot parties" for meningitis immunizations are profiled on ABC TV's "Good Morning America" show.
	2005 VNA earns the Michigan Award of Excellence for Improving Care in the Healthcare setting.
	2006 VNA earns distinction as one of the 101 Best and Brightest Places to Work in Metro Detroit.
	2007 For the second consecutive year, VNA is recognized as one of the 101 Best and Brightest Places to Work in Metro Detroit.
	2008 VNA enters its 110th year of service to the community!
	2008 VNA earns the 2007 Michigan Award of Excellence for Improving Care in the Home Health Setting