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In your own home
Most of our visits happen at a kitchen table or in a favorite chair, in town and out in the country.
- Nursing and therapy
- Aide visits
- Family teaching
A nonprofit visiting nurse association
Visiting the hills and hollows of Green Country since 1961.
Skilled nursing, therapy and home health aides for Cherokee, Adair, Sequoyah and Wagoner counties. Nonprofit, Medicare-certified, and still answering the phone with a nurse.
Our story, briefly
Two nurses, one car and a long list of addresses.
In 1961 two public health nurses, Ada Pettit and Lorene Fourkiller, started making home visits out of a borrowed Ford, because too many people in the hills east of Tahlequah were coming home from the hospital to nobody. Churches took up collections for gas. Doctors in town started calling them first.
Sixty-five years later we are still a nonprofit and still governed by a board of local people. We have more nurses, a therapy team and an office on Muskogee Avenue, but the job hasn't changed: show up, do careful work and treat every kitchen like the most important room in the county.
— Carolyn Sixkiller-Reed, RN, MSN, executive director
- 1961first nurse visit, by Ford Fairlane
- 65years as a community nonprofit
- 4counties, from Stilwell to Fort Gibson
- 31nurses, therapists and aides
Care settings
Wherever you call home
Our nurses visit houses in town, apartments, assisted living and farmhouses at the end of a gravel road.
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In assisted living and senior apartments
We work alongside the staff where you live, so skilled care comes to your own apartment.
- Shared care notes
- Therapy on site
- Medication reviews
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On farms and back roads
Gravel drives and creek crossings included. We schedule rural routes so nobody waits longer for living farther out.
- Rural routes
- Lab draws at home
- Equipment delivered
Our team
The nurses who carry the bag
Carolyn Sixkiller-Reed, RN, MSN
Executive Director
Started here as a staff nurse in 1994 and has run the association for twelve years. Grew up near Park Hill.
Anjali Rao, RN, BSN
Director of Nursing
Former surgical nurse who trains every new hire on the back roads before they ever carry a caseload.
Dale Harjo, PT
Therapy Director
Thirty years of home therapy in Green Country. Knows which porch steps in Stilwell need a handrail.
Monica Teehee, LMSW
Medical Social Worker
Helps families sort out SoonerCare, tribal health and VA benefits, and makes the follow-up calls herself.
Marcus Bell
Community Liaison
Runs the blood-pressure clinics and the equipment closet, and visits every church in the four counties at least once a year.
Sample family reviews
From the families we visit
My mother had a visiting nurse from this same office in 1979. Now one comes to me. Same kindness, better blood pressure cuffs.
We live nine miles past the end of the pavement. The nurse came in her own truck through a creek crossing and never mentioned it.
The gift fund paid for a shower chair and grab bars when Medicare wouldn't. I cried. I'm not ashamed to say it.
My diabetes nurse built my meal plan around fry bread and grape dumplings, in moderation. That's why I actually followed it.
Dale had me walking to my mailbox by week four. It's a quarter-mile mailbox.
The social worker untangled Dad's VA and SoonerCare paperwork in one afternoon at his kitchen table.
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Community Choice · Best Home Health Agency
- Regional Nursing Association · Preceptor of the Year
- Area Agency on Aging · Community Partner
- County Chamber · Nonprofit of the Year
Photo tour
On our rounds
For families
For families
How it works once we start coming to the house.
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Your nurse's number
One case manager who knows your family, and the 24-hour line for nights and weekends.
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Visit days
We confirm every visit the day before and call if a creek or a late patient slows us down.
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Equipment
Borrow what you need from our loan closet while you wait on insurance.
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Learning to help
We teach the family member who helps most, as many times as it takes.
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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Skilled nursing visits
Assessments, symptom checks and teaching after a hospital stay.
Medicare
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Diabetes management
Insulin teaching, foot checks and meal plans built on what you like to eat.
Medicare
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Physical therapy
Strength, balance and walking on your own floors, steps and yard.
MedicareNow hiring
A nonprofit with a mission, a mileage rate that covers the truck and a team that's been here for decades.
Contact
Serving Cherokee, Adair, Sequoyah and Wagoner counties
- 1180 S Muskogee Avenue
Tahlequah, OK
Parking behind the building off Allen Road; the back door is level with the lot. - (918) 555-0158
- Text us
- visits@greencountryvna.example
- Green Country Visiting Nurses
Office & nurse line
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 4:30p
- Intake nurse, Sat9a – noon
- Nurse line for patients24 hours
After hours, the main line rings the on-call nurse, who can see your chart.
Sixty-five years of house calls. Yours could be next week.
Call the office, ask your doctor to send a referral, or tell the hospital case manager you'd like Green Country Visiting Nurses.