51.   Its primary goal is to get children re-enrolled in school and to help them stay there with weekly, sometimes daily phone calls and home visits.

52.   Kady Swenson-Davis, a home visit nurse, recalls one mother whose every effort to calm a fussy baby seemed to fail.

53.   Maynard and his staff had to give her hours of coaching, including home visits.

54.   Melville makes home visits to some housebound patients.

55.   Much of their week will be spent as hospital volunteers and in home visits to the infirm.

56.   Not all home visits are comical.

57.   Nurses like Button, who make home visits to new parents, are fast becoming the safety net for a health care system increasingly faced with cost controls.

58.   Patient advocates are being assigned to make home visits to people undergoing kidney dialysis.

59.   Parents with poor track records can expect a home visit every ten weeks from representatives the school system has trained to drop in.

60.   Potential owners will undergo a screening process that involves interviews and possible home visits, Bless said.