Finding aid

The Holyoke Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. was established in 1905 when R.S. Vining was appointed the first and only nurse of the Holyoke District Nurse Association (HDNA). By the year 1912, the HDNA was making more than 3500 visits to 220 different families in Holyoke. In 1925 the name was changed from the Holyoke District Nurse Association and incorporated as the Holyoke Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. (HVNA). In the 1950s and 1960s the HVNA added nurses, created a medical advisory board and started a Home Health Aide program. The HVNA is still active in the region and currently includes South Hadley and Granby in its coverage area.

The Holyoke Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. Records consist of material dating from 1905, when the association was established as the District Nurse Association, to the late 1980s. In the collection are reports from the executive director, annual meeting minutes and booklets, statistical ledgers, account books, photographs, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, press releases, procedural pamphlets, and income and expense reports.