Thrive Global Featured Partners in Care and Jennifer Brullo on Family Caregiving

February 8, 2019–

Partners in Care Expands Presence in NYC’s Chinese-American Community with Acquisition of Prestige and All Seasons LHCSAs

January 31, 2019–Partners in Care, VNSNY’s licensed home care services agency (LHCSA), has acquired two other New York City-based LHCSAs, the sister agencies Prestige and All Seasons. This acquisition adds another 1,218 home health aides (HHAs) to Partners in Care’s staff—increasing the agency’s total HHA workforce to over 11,000—and also expands its customer base by 739 new clients. Both agencies primarily serve New York City’s Chinese-American residents, and most of the newly acquired HHAs speak either Mandarin or Cantonese. “VNSNY and Partners in Care already have a strong presence among the city’s Asian-American communities,” notes Jennifer Brullo, Senior Vice President for Partners in Care. “The addition of our newest HHAs, with their diverse language skills, further enhances our ability to care for this culturally important population.” The acquisition also benefits Partners in Care in other ways, says Jennifer. “As more LHCSAs try to enter the New York-area market, our ability to continue

Partners in Care Featured in Rockaway Wave on Elder Nutrition

January 3, 2019–

El Diario Features Partners in Care on the Elderly and Holiday Food Tips

December 20, 2018–

The Westchester Examiner Featured Partners in Care on Holiday Food and Elder Nutrition

December 19, 2018–

Miriam Martinez, Associate Director, Partners in Care, CHOICE MLTC

November 27, 2018–A Vital Bridge from Patient Assessment to Home Care This autumn marks 31 years at VNSNY for Miriam Martinez. She worked for Family Care Services (FCS) for 27 years, then moved to Partners in Care when it took on management of FCS in 2014. Beginning this year, she and her staff of eight shifted from clinical management to focus on handling the back-end compliance work that helps keep Partners in Care nurses in the field, assessing the needs and status of CHOICE Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) health plan members and arranging for vital home health aide (HHA) services. They schedule nursing visits, monitor that the nursing visits take place in timely fashion, and review the nurses’ patient assessment documentation as well as the physician authorization forms used by the nurses to request doctors’ approval of HHA services for the patient. In the course of their work, Miriam and her