See the Photos, a Video, and a Recording of the 2025 VNS Health Annual Awards Ceremony!

November 4, 2025–On Monday, October 27, team members from across the organization gathered for a very special evening to celebrate 38 team members who were honored at our 2025 VNS Health Annual Awards Ceremony. Over 400 people also watched the celebration simultaneously through a live-stream link. Now you can see the photos, watch a video about the event as well as watch a recording of the celebration. Congratulations to all the team members who were honored! Here is a video highlighting the event with Charity Shubert reporting! Here is a recording of the awards ceremony:

Announcing Our 2025 VNS Health Award Winners!

October 27, 2025–Read Their Stories and See the Full List of Nominees! Last night, on Monday, October 27, team members from across the organization were recognized and celebrated as the very best of the best in exemplifying VNS Health’s mission and Core Values of Empathy, Integrity and Agility! The event included those who had received awards earlier in the year, as well as presentations to the newly announced winners of the Phyllis Mills Living Legend Award, the ESPRIT Awards, and the VNS Health Outstanding Team Performance Award. To see all the team members who were nominated for these awards, click here. Congratulations to all of this year’s award winners! Click on their names here below to read more about them and their award. Home Care Nurse Preceptor Team 2025 Outstanding Team Performance Award Teresa Lin 2025 Phyllis Mills Living Legend Award (Click here for the finalists.) Michael Alcantara 2025 ESPRIT Award Jonelle

2025 Personal Care Honor Awards: Here’s the Full List – and Photos!

September 30, 2025–The 42nd Annual Personal Care Honor Awards Ceremony was held on Tuesday, September 30, 2025 in midtown Manhattan. Here below are photos of the festive event as well as a complete list of all the Personal Care team members who received Honor Awards. Congratulations to all the winners! Sally Kirton, HHA Supervisor, received the VNS Health Rewards Supervisor Superstar Award. Sally has some of the most challenging cases to fill, yet she and her team achieve remarkable results. She’s also a champion of VNS Health Rewards, recognizing her team often and ensuring that VNS Health’s Home Health Aides know their work matters. She is often praised for her kindness, patience, and compassion — she is truly a caregiver to caregivers. Diana Isabel Cuero Marroquin, HHA, won the VNS Health Rewards Hiring Wizard Award for being, quite simply, a hiring hero! Diana has referred seven new aides to VNS Health —

Celebrating Our Rehabilitation Therapists Today and Every Day!

September 15, 2025–September features National Rehabilitation Awareness Week—but since a week isn’t long enough to honor our outstanding rehab team, here at VNS Health, we’re celebrating our more than 375 Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech-Language Pathologists during the entire month of September! As part of our 2025 celebration, we’re hosting events in all five NYC boroughs as well as Long Island and Westchester. To view photos of our rehab celebrations, click on the links below: Long Island — September 9 Queens — September 11 Staten Island — September 16 Brooklyn – September 17 Manhattan — September 18 Bronx — September 25 Westchester — September 30

Remembering September 11

September 11, 2025–

Honoring Juneteenth

June 19, 2025–Dear Colleagues, On Thursday, June 19, we observe Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It was on this day in 1865 when word finally reached the enslaved people in Galveston, Texas that they were free — two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had legally freed them. On this important anniversary, I’d like to share a quote from Coretta Scott King, the late wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She said: “Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won — you earn it and win it in every generation.” In addition to marking the end of an unimaginably unjust system, the celebration of Juneteenth is also a reminder that, as Coretta Scott King noted, the struggle for better lives is ongoing. At VNS Health, we are committed to easing the health care struggles that many of those we serve face,

Happy Caribbean American Heritage Month!

June 9, 2025–Dear Colleagues, June is National Caribbean American Heritage Month. Officially recognized by Congress in 2006, it is a time when we honor the vibrant cultures and important contributions of Caribbean Americans, including those of our own team members. Here at VNS Health, this heritage is deeply woven into the fabric of our organization and the communities we serve. New York State is home to more than 2 million people with ties to the Caribbean — including Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Cuba, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Dominica, and the Bahamas. As we salute these wonderfully diverse cultures, I hope you all have a chance to enjoy the celebrations that are taking place in June throughout our area. Happy Caribbean American Heritage Month! Dan

Celebrating Pride Month!

June 9, 2025–June is Pride Month, when we recognize and celebrate our LGBTQ+ team members and the LGBTQ+ community. At VNS Health, we are deeply committed to serving all New Yorkers, including those who identify as LGBTQ+. An enduring and important symbol of Pride Month is the rainbow Pride Flag. The Pride Flag made its first appearance at the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Freedom Day Parade in 1978. Since then there have been multiple versions of the flag, all serving as symbols of LGBTQ+ pride and inclusion. The most recent version, the Pride Progress Flag, builds on this legacy, incorporating additional colors to represent marginalized communities and honoring the spirit of resistance sparked by the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Like the Pride Flag, VNS Health plays a vital role in the LGBTQ+ community. We are and will continue to be national leaders in providing culturally sensitive home- and community-based health care to LGBTQ+

VNS Health Celebrates Nurses Month! Photos! Videos!

May 29, 2025–To celebrate our truly amazing nurses, VNS Health held Nurses Month events in all five NYC boroughs as well as in Westchester and Long Island. To view photos from each of these celebrations – plus videos of government officials giving special tributes to VNS Health – click here below! Manhattan — May 1, 2025 Queens — May 7, 2025 Westchester — May 13, 2025 Bronx — May 14, 2025 At our Bronx event, Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson celebrated VNS Health Nurses with an inspiring talk and a proclamation. She also dedicated five full nursing school scholarships at Touro University for residents of the Bronx. To view the video click here below. NY News 1 and Bronx News 12 also covered the event, which included honoring Jean Verlus, our 2025 Nurse of the Year, and the announcement of the scholarships dedicated to residents of the Bronx. Click here for NY

Celebration and Commemoration