Michigan Visiting Nurses records, 1896-2010

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11.3 linear feet

Michigan Visiting Nurses was created by the integration of the Visiting Nurse Association of Huron Valley into the University of Michigan Health System beginning in 1998. The Visiting Nurse Association of Huron Valley formed in 1980 with the merger of the Ann Arbor Visiting Nurse Association (AAVNA) and the Ypsilanti Visiting Nurse Agency (YVNA). The Ann Arbor association was formed in 1896 with the establishment of the University Hospital Circle of the King's Daughters, name later changed to the Ann Arbor Public Health Nursing Association. The Ypsilanti Agency was founded in 1941. Records include: Secretary's record books and files consisting of minutes, reports, and related organizational documents; scrapbooks; financial records; and subject files.

The Michigan Visiting Nurses (MVN) records cover over 100 years of public health nursing in Washtenaw County, documenting the changing nature of this service and its associated agencies over the course of the twentieth century. The MVN records are organized into four series: Ann Arbor Visiting Nurse Association, Ypsilanti Visiting Nurse Agency, Visiting Nurse Association of Huron Valley, and Michigan Visiting Nurses.

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Ann Arbor Visiting Nurse Association

The Ann Arbor Visiting Nurse Association, 1896-1980, series contains a nearly complete run of secretary's records, financial records, annual reports, statistical reports, nurses' daily reports of home and school visits, scrapbooks, materials relating to publicity and the National League of Nursing. Additionally, this series contains records pertaining to the AAVNA merger with the County Health Department in the 1940s and the Ypsilanti Visiting Nurse Agency in 1980. Details of the merger of AAVNA with YVNA to form the Visiting Nurse Association of Huron Valley are provided by the Merger Committee correspondence and reports from 1978 and 1979, the 1979-80 minutes of the Joint Merger Study Committee, and the merger agreement and plan of 1980.