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The Boston Home seeks to make a compelling difference in the lives of adults with advanced progressive neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis, through exceptional clinical care, compassion and innovative programs. The Boston Home seeks to continuously expand its role as industry leader and catalyst for change by conducting research and training, exporting our competencies to others in the health care community.

TO PROVIDE EXTENDED CARE TO THE CHRONICALLY ILL AND DISABLED, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE CARE OF THE FRAIL ELDERLY.

When Frank Lahey, M.D., founded a group practice in 1923, his vision was unique: Every component of a patient's health care would be coordinated under one roof.Today, Lahey Clinic still offers a distinctive patient experience.Our group practice model is unique in its ability to provide highly coordinated and accessible services. More than 450 physicians and nearly 4,000 nurses, therapists and other support staff work together to provide compassionate care and superior patient outcomes.The Clinic's multidisciplinary approach allows patients access to preeminent physicians from virtually every medical specialty, who cooperate to develop personalized treatment plans for each patient.From leading-edge technology to pioneer medical research, Lahey Clinic combines the world-renowned specialty resources of Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington and Lahey Clinic Northshore in Peabody with top-quality primary care services at community-based practices in multiple towns throughout northeastern Massachusetts.For the past eight years, U.S. News and & World Report has ranked Lahey Clinic in its annual "Best Hospitals" edition.The Heart and Vascular Center at Lahey Clinic is one of the largest in New England. Patients come long distances to benefit from techniques that Lahey surgeons have pioneered. The Neurovascular Institute is among the most advanced in the region for the treatment of strokes and brain aneurysms. The Liver Transplantation Team was the first in New England to perform adult living-donor transplant procedures. And surgeons are using minimally invasive laparoscopic methods, drastically reducing the recovery time following surgery for diseases such as bladder cancer.Lahey Clinic Medical Center (LCMC) in Burlington encompasses an ambulatory care center serving more than 3,000 patients each day and a 259-bed hospital. Lahey Clinic Northshore in Peabody serves more than 400 outpatients each day and includes a 10-bed hospital. Both feature 24-hour emergency departments, with a Level II Trauma Center based at LCMC.Lahey's community-based physicians have a wide range of special interests. Many of the community group practices feature adult internists, pediatricians, and family practice specialists. Lahey Clinic Medical Center is a teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine. In addition, many of our physicians hold teaching assignments at Harvard Medical School and Boston University School of Medicine. The Clinic maintains residency and fellowship programs for more than 100 new physicians in 19 specialties.As a research center, Lahey Clinic offer patients access to clinical trials of new therapies for diseases such as diabetes, prostate cancer, heart disease, and cataracts. Research programs at Lahey Clinic encompass more than 200 clinical trial protocols and participation in numerous national and international studies.

TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ELDERS AND THE DISABLED ADULTS. OUR GOAL IS TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY AND DIGNITY OF LIFE FOR ADULTS WITH DISABLILITIES OR ILLNESSES THROUGH SUPERVISION, RESTORATIVE SERVICES, SUPPORT.

Care of Elderly

WE SEEK TO PROVIDE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF COMPASSIONATE, PERSON-CENTERED CARE. WE ARE COMMITTED TO OFFERING SERVICES AND RESOURCES TO CONTINUALLY MEET AND EXCEED THE GROWING NEEDS OF OLDER ADULTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western CT, Inc. is a nonprofit home care and hospice agency that offers real hope for those facing advanced illness through patient-focused care, education, resources and advocacy. We help patients and their loved ones discover what end-of-life care can be, what can be gained, what can be realized and what can be recaptured.

THREE VILLAGE MEALS ON WHEELS PROVIDES A HOME DELIVERED MEAL PROGRAM FOR HOMEBOUND, HANDICAPPED, CHRONICALLY ILL, OR CONVALESCENT PERSONS IN THEIR COMMUNITY WHO ARE UNABLE TO PREPARE THEIR OWN FOOD. THE SERVICE BEGAN IN 1983 BY SERVING MEALS TO 13 CLIENTS. TO DATE THE ORGANIZATION HAS PROVIDED MEALS TO OVER 2,000 PEOPLE IN AND AROUND THE NORTHERN PART OF BROOKHAVEN TOWNSHIP.

The mission of Meals-on-Wheels of White Plains is to deliver both food and compassion to our homebound neighbors in need. Meals-on-Wheels serves the shut-ins of our city who are unable to shop or prepare adequate meals themselves. These people are homebound due to some medical problem or condition such as a physical injury, physical illness, mental illness, recovery from surgery, etc. Meals-on-Wheels delivers two delicious and nutritionally balanced meals per day. Our goal is to bring to each client a smile and meals that taste great, look pleasing and meet their special health needs. We deliver two delicious and nutritionally balanced meals per day. A professional dietician has carefully helped to plan the meals. The skilled chefs at Horizon Foor Service Corlook pleasing and meet their special health needs.

The mission of ArchCare, the Continuing Care Community of the Archdiocese of New York, is to foster and provide faith-based holistic care to frail and vulnerable people unable to fully care for themselves. Through shared commitments, ArchCare seeks to improve the quality of the lives of those individuals and their families.

TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVITIES OF VNA HEALTH CARE SERVICES, INC.

THE NURSING HOME IS DEVOTED TO CARING FOR THE SICK AND DISABLED WITH COMPASSION IN THE TRADITION OF CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE. IT SEEKS TO DELIVER HIGH QUALITY CARE, TO TREAT ALL PATIENTS WITH DIGNITY, AND TO PROVIDE A CARING ENVIRONMENT FOR PATIENTS AT THE NURSING HOME. AS A PARTICIPATING MEMBER OF THE CATHOLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, THE NURSING HOME IS ALSO COMMITTED TO FURTHERING THE SYSTEM'S ABILITY TO PROMOTE HIGH QUALITY CARE, TO ENHANCE ITS SERVICES, AND TO OPERATE EFFECTIVELY AS A HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.