Local conditions
| Probate court | Orleans Probate Division, 247 Main Street in Newport |
|---|---|
| Average hospital distance | 11.3 miles |
| Towns near a hospital | 5.6% |
| Transit stops | 0 |
| CMS-certified homes | 4 |
| Licensed facilities | 9 |
| Nursing homes | 4 |
- Of the licensed long-term-care facilities in Orleans County, 1 is state-designated for dementia or memory care.
How Orleans compares next door
Orleans County's transit feed lists zero stops across all 11 of its tracked towns, the same total absence recorded for Essex County, though Orleans fares somewhat better on hospital access: 5.6% of its 18 towns sit within 15 minutes, against Essex County's zero. Orleans also holds 4 Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes among its 8 licensed settings, twice as many as neighboring Caledonia County's 2.
Senior care in Orleans County
Lake Willoughby sits east of Barton along VT 5A, and Irasburg, on VT 58, is a different corridor again from the Newport-Derby stretch of VT 5 along Lake Memphremagog.
Rides in Newport, Derby and the Kingdom's villages
For rides, Rural Community Transportation runs RCT Rides, a fare-free, taxi-style microtransit service booked through an app that serves Newport, Derby and Derby Line and also Lamoille County.
Beyond the microtransit towns, the Council on Aging's Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities programme, delivered with Rural Community Transportation, local taxi services and volunteers, lets an eligible rider schedule up to four medical trips and two shopping or pharmacy trips a month.
For a family in Barton, Glover or Greensboro, where the county's small nursing homes are, those ride limits shape how often a relative can visit or be taken to appointments in Newport.
Home health, adult day and the hospital in Newport
Orleans/Essex VNA and Hospice, at 45 Lakemont Road in Newport, is the nonprofit Medicare-certified home health agency for Orleans and northern Essex counties, with a hospice programme and foot and nail care clinics; its number is 802-334-5213.
Adult Day Services of Orleans County, run as Green Mountain Adult Day Services, is at 148 Prouty Drive in Newport, on the same street as North Country Hospital, and can be reached at 802-334-3188.
North Country Hospital and Health Center in Newport is the county's hospital and the closest emergency room for most of it.
Orleans County has four nursing homes on the state list, which is more than any other Northeast Kingdom county, in Barton, Glover, Greensboro and Newport.
Where the community lunches are held in Orleans County
Orleans County has five community meal sites under the Northeast Kingdom Council on Aging, open to adults 60 and over and their spouses: The Barton Hub on Village Square on Tuesday and Thursday; a site on Main Street in Coventry on Tuesday; the Old Town Hall on Glover Road in Glover on Wednesday; the Forever Young Club at the Newport Municipal Building on Tuesday and Wednesday; and the Westfield Community Center on Thursday.
Days vary by site, so call ahead in winter.
The Forever Young Club is the largest of the senior groups in the county.
The council keeps an office at 5452 U.S.
Route 5 in Newport and takes appointments there, and has been the area agency for Caledonia, Orleans and Essex counties since 1974.
Residential care homes here include Michaud Memorial Manor in Derby Line, Maple Lane in Barton and the Craftsbury Community Care Center.
Nursing homes in Orleans County
The county's four nursing homes are Maple Lane Nursing Home at 60 Maple Lane in Barton, Union House Nursing Home on Glover Street in Glover, Greensboro Nursing Home on Maggie's Pond Road and Bel Aire Center on Bel-Aire Drive in Newport.
Residential care is smaller still: Craftsbury Community Care Center offers private units with a full bath and an emergency call system, and Maple Lane Retirement Home in Barton, in a converted farmhouse a century old, has sixteen beds.