"You would just walk in through the door and they would say, check her feet, I think she has a little sore, and she’s not breathing right today."

- VCC nurse Maria Gerard

"Every day we sit and play cards and I let her beat me.  We both laugh, you know, it gives her a different outlook on life.

'I am not doing well today.  I don’t care if I live or die.' 

'I want you to live.'

'Why would you want me to live?' 

'Because I care about you.  I don’t know you but I still care about you.'"

    - VCC home health aide 

"I used to kid around and say that there’s a lot of Polish and Russian people in Naugatuck eating rice and beans and pastelillos, and they love it, and the girls the have to go shopping at C-Town to make them their meals."

-    Margie Rosati