VINELAND HOUSING AUTHORITY
City of Vineland
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VINELAND HOUSING AUTHORITY City of Vineland |
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Program Director: Mrs. Donna Pflaumer, RN Olivio Towers 1044 E. Landis Ave. Vineland, N.J. 08360 Phone: 856-691-7873
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Social Service Program The Social Service Program has been in existence for over twenty-years. The Housing Authority bears the complete cost for staffing and space. A N.J. State Registered Nurse directs the Program. The Social Service Program is the result of the administration recognizing that elderly residents have significant health concerns and that health related assistance and monitoring improves and enhances their life. The registered nurse is support personnel for the Congregate Housing Services Program (CSP). (More information on the CSP program can be located on its own CSP page within the V.H.A. Web page). The RN maintains an extended referral and information system to help with outplacement of residents in need of extended care. She works cooperatively with local physicians, hospital staff, and local agencies in a comprehensive effort to serve the health related needs of our residents. Health related services assist the ill and frail resident living at our elderly/disabled sites. These services include: a weekly blood pressure clinic at each site, health assessments, family counseling, client observation through home visits, and monitoring of medications for those who need such assistance. The RN has an I’m O.K. Program, exercise classes at our two hi-rise complexes, and she visits residents who are in the hospital, as needed. She participates in the monthly occupancy meeting to provide information of residents who may be transferring out of the Housing Authority and obtains information of new residents or additional needs of residents as presented by our occupancy specialists. Our registered nurse completes a health assessment for all clients and instructs, monitors, and supervises the home health aides who provide home health services through the Congregate Program. The RN is a principal member of the Professional Assessment Committee who reviews client needs and at risk cases attached to the Congregate Program. The availability of a registered nurse on staff is invaluable especially in light of the fact that public housing is no longer just “nuts and bolts”, it is fast becoming a comprehensive provider of services to meet the human needs of those we serve.
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