2025 Annual Statement from the Board

November

During these challenging times, we want to first assure you and the community that RDNA is strong and providing care as we have since 1929.  With your help, RDNA fees remain reliably stable and services uninterrupted.  As has been true in recent years, our nurses are maxed out and a waitlist sadly endures.  We are working to sustainably increase nursing capacity, while meeting rising operational costs.  RDNA is not typically eligible for federal and state funding, and less and less for grants as they become more restricted and focused elsewhere.  Our strength truly lies in our enduring local support.

We often hear that district nursing is no longer “really nursing” given today’s highly technical health care environment.  Indeed, we still rely on paper charts and fax machines.  When providing clinical services, we have full conversations with our clients about their lives, their health care.  Given the many unknowns of visiting in the home, each of our nurses attests to regularly drawing on their vast years of clinical nursing experience.  The larger health care system is not structured to provide these essential community nursing services necessary for keeping older and medically vulnerable residents out of dwindling hospital and nursing home beds.  So yes, district nursing is absolutely still “really nursing.”

100% of the RDNA Board financially supports RDNA, a 501(c)(3) organization, and thanks you for your support carrying this much needed and loved service forward.  Together we each have a role to play in making a difference.

(For more information, see the 2025 Info Sheet.)

All of us with RDNA thank you.

RDNA Board of Directors
Anna Ware, RN, President
Anne Norman, Secretary
Kathy Roth, Treasurer
Renee Heal
Mark Lewis
Meg Sawyer

Walker Hutchins, Emeritus

Peta vanVuuren, Agency Director