In Honor of National Home Care and Hospice Month: 5 Interesting Facts about Home Care, Hospice and VNSNY!

1. Home care significantly reduces overall healthcare expenses. For example, a 2017 study by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, published in the American Journal of Medicine, found that patients who receive home health care after a hospital discharge save the system about $6,500.00 over the course of a year.

2. On any given day, VNSNY has over 44,000 patients and CHOICE plan members in its care.

3. VNSNY is the only organization trained and credentialed to provide the highest level of culturally competent home- and community-based care to the LGBTQ community throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties.

4. VNSNY Hospice is now the 8th largest hospice program in the U.S. That’s according to the latest Centers for Medicare and Medicaid statistics. We’re also the largest hospice in New York State!

5. Last year, VNSNY provided services to more than 845 New Yorkers aged 100 years or more. One of our current home care patients is 114-year-old Alelia Murphy, the oldest living American!