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

Safe Pathways Team Members Melinda Wong and Darien Williams Join BronxNet TV for Mental Health Awareness Month

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125 VNS Health Kids Enjoy “Bring Your Child to Work Day”—See the Photos!

May 5, 2025–If you were in our offices at 220 East 42nd Street or 5 Penn Plaza on April 24th, you might have noticed some unusually young team members on the premises. You weren’t imagining things—but then again, those weren’t actually VNS Health employees. This was “Bring Your Child to Work Day,” and many of our team members did exactly that, inviting 125 of their kids to spend the day at their workplace. For the children in attendance, it was a day of learning about health care and the organization in fun and creative ways. Following breakfast, attendees could choose from a menu of activities that included a scavenger hunt, various healthcare demos—where kids could watch a nurse removing staples from a simulated “leg,” as well as demonstrations of occupational therapy in action and how breathing and swallowing issues are managed—plus a presentation on healthcare careers. Lunch featured pizza, ice cream and

Ribbon-Cutting for Our New Integrated Behavioral Health Clinic in Photos and Video!

April 29, 2025–On Thursday, April 17th, over a hundred VNS Health team members, elected officials, and community partners gathered in front of our Mott Haven location in the South Bronx to cut the ribbon on our new Integrated Mental Health and Substance Use Clinic. Distinguished guests included Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Dr. Ann Sullivan, Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health, and Dr. Chinazo Cunningham, Commissioner of New York State’s Office of Addiction Services and Supports. The clinic’s integrated services—which are available to anyone, regardless of ability to pay—include coordinated mental health and substance use treatment, crisis intervention, and linkage to broader health care and safety net services across New York City. The clinic will operate out of our existing Mott Haven location in the Bronx, where our ongoing FRIENDS programs for children and adolescent are also based. “We see this as a real game-changer for the Bronx