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Check Out the Latest “VNSNY in the News” Media Highlights!
May 6, 2022–RNs Ruth Caballero and Philip Leon Explain Why Home Health Matters in Manhattan Voice With National Nurses Week in full-swing, VNSNY RNs Ruth Caballero and Philip Leon were featured in a new piece published in Manhattan Voice, “Six Things You Might Not Know About Home Health Care Nurses.” Above all, the message they share is that home nursing is extremely fulfilling for those in the field, but also for the patients too. Read the whole piece here! Manhattan Voice is the #1 source for local news and health tips covering Manhattan. This article also ran in the online and print versions of Your Health Voice, Bronx Voice and Queens Voice for a total print circulation of 40,000 and 47,520 unique visitors per month. VNSNY Home Health Aide Geraldine Singleton on the Importance of Bringing Joy to Homebound Seniors VNSNY’s Senior Vice President of Partners in Care, James Rolla shares an
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Join Your VNSNY Colleagues (and Our Float!) in the PRIDE NYC 2018 March on June 24th
April 19, 2018–This year, on Sunday, June 24th, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York will once again be participating as an organization in the PRIDE NYC March—the original and historic annual celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives and community in the United States. All VNSNY staff members are invited to join in as we march together to show our commitment to providing care and support for aging LGBT New Yorkers. If you didn’t participate last year and wonder what it was like, watch this short video to see what a fun day it was for everyone! VNSNY will also be featuring its first-ever float in this year’s parade, with the theme “There’s No Place Like Home.” All VNSNY marchers will receive a free T-shirt. In order to march with VNSNY, you must register with VNSNY, which is very easy to do—just click here. VNSNY is limited to 200 marchers and the
10 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About VNSNY’s Dedicated Volunteers
April 19, 2018–Happy National Volunteer Week! In honor of this celebration of the nation’s volunteers, which lasts from April 15 to April 21, here are some interesting facts about VNSNY’s own dedicated group of volunteers. 1) VNSNY’s operations are supported by 557 volunteers. About 330 of these volunteers work with VNSNY Hospice and Palliative Care, which is required by Medicare to utilize volunteers for at least 5% of its total patient care hours. VNSNY’s other 200-plus volunteers help provide other types of support services to patients, such as phoning isolated seniors, and also assist with office operations, organizing art shows and holiday parties for our disadvantaged mental health clients. 2) All VNSNY volunteers go through a careful screening process. “Our volunteers are reviewed and their background is checked, similar to VNSNY’s hiring process for paying jobs, to make sure they’re a good fit for the responsibilities they’ll be taking on,” says Michael Ambrosini, VNSNY’s
A Personal Message from Marki Flannery, President and CEO
April 17, 2018–Hello, everyone—it is wonderful to be back! I want to thank those of you who I have personally met for the wonderful, warm welcome you’ve given me. Having been in my new position for one week now, I want to share with you how very pleased I am to be back at VNSNY, collaborating with an incredible group of leaders, clinicians, and staff as we move into our next 125 years. I couldn’t be prouder of the great people and the great work that we do here. I’m also looking forward to the next year. As I told the VNSNY Board when I agreed to take on this position for one year, I am hopeful that during this time the organization will continue to solidify the leadership team that will carry VNSNY into the future. In the meantime, I very much need your support over the coming year, as we
Wait? What? Isn’t It Spring??? Check Out the Selfies from the March 21st Snowstorm!
March 21, 2018–Even though the calendar says that spring has officially started, we faced yet another snowstorm yesterday—the fourth nor’easter in four weeks! But that didn’t stop VNSNY’s amazing and dedicated field staff from continuing to call on our patients and clients, despite the inclement weather. Your commitment and compassion is second to none and shows that Lillian Wald’s mission is alive and well today. Thank you! Check out the selfies that came in yesterday from the frontlines. If you were out in the snow on March 21 seeing patients and took a selfie, please send it along and we’ll post it.
VNSNY Executive Breakfast Speaker Shines New Light on Health Disparities
March 15, 2018–If we want to improve the quality of life for millions of vulnerable Americans, we have to address the social factors blocking their access to quality health care. That was the message of Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, the keynote speaker at VNSNY’s Executive Breakfast, hosted by the Development Department on March 6th at the organization’s 70th Street headquarters. The event, designed to highlight transformative issues that impact the health care community, brought together New York-area healthcare providers, foundation representatives, and other members of the health care community. In her presentation, Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey, a professor of population health and health equity at the University of Pennsylvania and the former President and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focused on the need to go beyond general approaches to health care and begin implementing targeted interventions for populations with special needs. These interventions should be delivered on a local level, she said, using
Happy National Social Work Month! 10 Interesting Facts About VNSNY’s Social Workers
March 8, 2018–1) Social workers are essential to the care management of our patients and members. VNSNY social workers are an invaluable part of numerous programs across Provider Services as well as within all of the plans offered by VNSNY CHOICE, providing counseling, access to resources and other critically important services to patients and members in each of New York City’s five boroughs as well as Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester counties. “In bringing their special skills and expertise and experience to their care teams, social workers provide a perspective that really focuses on psychosocial factors and how those are impacting the individuals we’re working with,” notes Jeri Goodman, Social Work Manager for VNSNY Home Care, which has approximately 45 social workers. 2) Altogether, VNSNY has over 320 social workers. The large majority of these social workers work for VNSNY full time, while the rest are employed on a per diem or part-time
VNSNY’s Staff (and Their Pets) Celebrate the Year of the Dog
February 13, 2018–The Year of the Dog officially starts on Friday, February 16, with the arrival of the Lunar New Year. To help kick off this special year, a number of employees who are dog owners sent in photos of their own pets. (This is an ongoing gallery—if you’d like to send us a photo of you with your dog, please do and we’ll add it to the gallery. Please send a photo of you and your dog—along with your dog’s name—to [email protected].)
VNSNY Receives Foundation Grant to Launch LGBT Outreach Project
February 6, 2018–The New York Community Trust has awarded VNSNY an 18-month, $125,000 grant that will help support a new project aimed at improving health access and outcomes for New York City’s older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents. The grant will fund the hiring of an experienced LGBT nurse to serve as project manager for VNSNY’s new LGBT Outreach and Expansion Project. “This manager’s responsibilities will include forging relationships with both LGBT-dedicated and non-LGBT organizations in the community, and also educating New York City’s provider community on the best practices for working with LGBT seniors,” says Jackie Halpern, Director, Foundation & Corporate Relations, who helped lead efforts to secure the grant funding. “In addition, the project manager will conduct educational activities with LGBT seniors designed to raise awareness of the services that VNSNY can provide them, and link them to those services.” The overarching goal, she adds, “is to help
2018 Marks VNSNY’s 125th Anniversary!
February 6, 2018–Trusted by New Yorkers for 125 Years and Counting. 2018 is a very special year for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. It is our quasquicentennial anniversary, marking 125 years of VNSNY’s commitment and contribution to the health and well-being of the New York community and our most vulnerable residents. 125 years ago this March, Lillian Wald, freshly graduated from nursing school, was teaching a home nursing course for immigrant mothers on the crowded Lower East Side of Manhattan when a little girl asked her to come attend to her ailing mother. The experience of caring for the woman, who lay suffering in the filthy bed of her tenement apartment, shook Lillian to her core. At that moment, she decided she would devote her life to caring for the poor and vulnerable. A few months later, supported by philanthropists such as Jacob Schiff, Lillian Wald and her nursing school