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Bronx Voice Features FRIENDS Mental Health Specialist Salvador Garcia on Managing COVID-Related Stress
March 28, 2022–
9 Things You May Be Surprised to Know about Social Work and Our More Than 445 Social Work Team Members
March 21, 2022–March is National Social Work Month—a fitting celebration of the vital work that our social work team members do all year long. To celebrate, here are 9 things about social work and VNSNY’s social work team members that may surprise you. 1) Social work is one of the fastest growing careers in the United States. According to the U.S Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, the need for social workers is expected to grow significantly over the next decade, especially in the areas of gerontology, home health care, substance use, private social service agencies, and school social work. There were more than 715,000 social work jobs in 2020, and the profession is expected to grow by 12 percent by 2030. 2) Social workers play an overarching role in their clients’ lives. One common misconception about social workers is that their role is limited to connecting people with community resources
Bronx Voice Features Social Workers Shana Maltzman and Christine Garcia for National Social Work Month
March 2, 2022–
BronxNet Features Deirdré DeLeo – Holiday Health Guidelines for Homebound Seniors
December 22, 2021–
NYC Patch Features Deirdré DeLeo – Holiday Health Guidelines for Homebound Seniors
December 22, 2021–
Queens Voice Features Deirdré DeLeo – Holiday Health Guidelines for Homebound Seniors
December 21, 2021–
VNSNY in 2021 — Year in Review
December 20, 2021–January VNSNY welcomes EVP & Chief Financial Officer Keith Patterson. On January 25th, Keith Patterson joins VNSNY as our new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He arrives with an extensive background in managed care as well as provider and other healthcare services. VNSNY CEOs named to 2021 City & State Health Power 100. Current VNSNY CEO Dan Savitt and former CEO Marki Flannery are both named to the 2021 City & State Health Power 100 list, a roster of New York’s 100 most influential public officials, health care executives, advocates and activists, academics, and labor leaders. Vaccinate VNSNY! From early January, when VNSNY opens its vaccine clinic at 220 East 42nd Street, through March 20th, when the clinic administers its last first-dose vaccinations, VNSNY nurses give out 9,000 first doses and 4,400 second doses of the Moderna vaccine—the large majority of them to VNSNY staff members. Click here for
Find Out What’s Happening… Here Are the Latest News Briefs from Around VNSNY!
November 30, 2021–Welcome to the latest edition of “News Briefs from Around VNSNY”— featuring quick updates on recent news and happenings across the organization.If you have any news or announcements that you’d like to submit for consideration in an upcoming edition, please click here. VNSNY’s (Virtual) Gala Raises More Than $1.4 Million! Despite fervent hopes that the 2021 Benefit Gala would be an in-person event, VNSNY made the difficult decision not to host a large, indoor celebration quite yet this year. “Even though we had to pivot to a virtual event, we released a pre-recorded program video on November 11th that people can watch at their convenience,” says John Billeci, VNSNY’s Vice President of Special Events. “It contains many of the same elements that our in-person event usually has, including a video about VNSNY and the presentation of our Lillian D. Wald Award to this year’s honorees.” Emceed by Emmy-Award-winning PIX11 anchor
Meet Our 2021 ESPRIT Winners!
November 16, 2021–