Lillian Nichols, a parish nurse with St. Bernard s Episcopal church, founded the Visiting Nurse Association. She started to attend to the sick and poor in 1903. In 1904, a committee was formed to direct her and be responsible for services to the community of Somerset Hills, which consisted of Bernardsville, Basking Ridge, Gladstone, Mendham Borough and Chester Borough. The association provides home care for people recovering from an acute illness, injury, surgery or childbirth, or living their last days at home rather than a hospital. The Visiting Nurse Association provides physician-prescribed treatments and procedures and emotional and spiritual support to residents of Somerset and Morris Counties, N.J.