A. V. Home Care Services

A.V. Home Care Services provides community based long term care supports to seniors and disabled community members in their homes. Services include nursing, homemaking, and personal care. A.V. Home Care Services is licensed through the State of NH, Department of Health and Human Services and works closely with the Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services (BEAS). Elderly and disabled clients have various needs due to being homebound, having a chronic illness, recently returning home from the hospital/rehabilitation center, or have a terminal illness. Clients vary in age, but most are over the age of 60. A.V. Home Care Services strives to maintain, strengthen, and improve the quality of home life for our clients and assist their families if they have family. The staff provide support to dependent adults who may otherwise have to live in a long-term care facility. Helping seniors to live safely and independently in their own home, for as long as possible, has always been the mission of A.V. Home Care Services.

A.V. Home Care Services provides the following services:

Nursing: RN Nurse Supervisors assess new referrals and conduct a home environmental and safety assessment for safety and work planning. They work closely with the client, family and primary care provider to ensure all needs are met.

Home Health Aide: Licensed Nurse Aides provide personal care/bathing/dressing and grooming as well as medication assistance as needed.

Homemaker: Trained Homemakers provide light housecleaning, laundry, errands, meal preparation and grocery shopping. Medications may be picked up locally.

MISSION and VISION:

A.V. Home Care Services has been serving Berlin-Gorham and surrounding towns since 1975. The mission and vision of our agency helps guide us to achieve our goals. The mission helps the staff team stay focused and clarify our direction.

The mission at A.V. Home Care Services is to responsibly provide the best personal care, homemaking and respite possible, according to each client’s needs.

The vision of AVHCS is to assure the integrity and well-being of the community and its citizens as unique individuals. This includes acknowledging the cultural, religious, educational, and ethnic differences among people while maintaining a standard of fairness and equality in rendering care to them.