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Center for Home Care Transforming healthcare

Policy and Research practice and policy to
enrich lives

At a time when home health care has a larger broad applications for evidence-based home- and com-
place in health and wellness than ever before, VNSNY’s munity-based care, and is also yielding new insights into
cutting-edge home care research center is playing a key how care in these settings affects patient outcomes such
role in ensuring that our country’s healthcare practice as symptom control, quality of life, and hospitalization risk.
and policies are evolving to meet the needs of this trans-
formative time. As the nation’s preeminent home- and The Research Center’s staff collaborates extensively with
community-based healthcare research center, the inter- other clinical and academic institutions, and publishes
nationally renowned VNSNY Center for Home Care Policy its findings in a wide array of peer-reviewed academic
and Research conducts rigorous scientific research aimed journals. In addition to its ongoing clinical investigations,
at improving patient outcomes and promoting positive the Center frequently hosts delegations from across
changes in the field of home health care. This new knowl- the country and around the globe.
edge and exchange of ideas generated by the Center has

The Research Center’s work is supported by a number of public and private sources. Studies currently underway
rely on federal sources such as the National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute on Aging, the
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ). Private funding sources include the Beatrice Renfield Foundation, The Eugenie and Joseph Doyle
Research Partnership Fund, and the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. The Center also relies on the
New York State Health Foundation, Margaret and Alexander Bancroft, as well as other donors.

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