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Frontline Asked Staff: “How Do You Think OKRs Will Add Value to VNSNY?”
June 28, 2021–Individual OKRs are due tomorrow, June 30th. Have you done yours yet? If you haven’t – and even if you have – you’ll want to watch this video in which “Ask VNSNY” host Amery Moultry asked staff from around the organization: “How do you think OKRs will add value to VNSNY?” To hear what they had to say, click here below.
Special Pride Video: We Asked LGBTQ+ Staff to Share a Coming-Out Moment That Now Makes You Smile
June 28, 2021–In this second video of our two-part series commemorating Pride Month, “Ask VNSNY” host Amery Moultry discusses the history and issues around coming out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and asks LGBTQ+ employees from around the organization to share a coming-out moment that they have come to find humorous. To hear their inspiring and poignant answers, click here below.
Special Pride Video: We Asked LGBTQ+ Staff to Share a Coming-Out Moment that Makes You Most Proud
June 24, 2021–Get ready to be incredibly moved. In this first video of our two-part series commemorating Pride Month and the start of Pride Weekend, “Ask VNSNY” host Amery Moultry discusses the history and issues around coming out as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, and asks LGBTQ+ employees from around the organization to share a coming-out moment that made them especially proud. To hear their inspiring and poignant answers, click here below.
City & State Honors Arthur Fitting and Shannon Whittington in Pride Power 100 List
June 21, 2021–
TIME Magazine Features VNSNY’s Arthur Fitting, LGBTQ+ Program Manager
June 18, 2021–
Find Out What’s Happening … News from Around VNSNY
June 2, 2021–Welcome to the latest edition of “News Briefs from Around VNSNY”— featuring quick updates on recent news and virtual events across the organization. If you have a news brief you’d like to be considered for an upcoming edition, please click here to submit your idea. VNSNY on Exhibit! Need an idea for a quick day trip? The beautiful Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk, Connecticut, is featuring an exhibit called “Health, Healing & Addiction in 19th Century America,” open to the public through October 17th. It covers the history of health care, including the extraordinary breakthroughs that led to the birth of modern medicine and public health. The exhibit also looks at rising addiction rates, which were pervasive in the 19th century through easy access to unregulated, over-the-counter “remedies.” Also on display are rare artifacts, instruments, costumes, and photographs from the Lockwood and Mathews families, as well as loans from private collections and
OKR (Objectives and Key Results) Easy Reference Guide
June 1, 2021–In addition to the OKR foundational training and the OKR writing workshop that many of you have taken (or will take soon), we thought it would be useful to provide you with an easy reference guide on how OKRs will move us forward as an organization. 1. OKRs are a journey that we’re all on together. An OKR objective isn’t something that can be accomplished in a day or two—your OKRs are quarterly goals, and we will continue to revisit them over time. 2. OKRs allow us to be more focused both as employees and as an organization. They allow us to focus on a smaller number of key priorities, and also help ensure we’re aligned with our Mission; our 3 Core Values—Empathy, Agility, and Integrity; and our 5 enterprise-wide OKR objectives: Make leaps in our consumer experience so that we consistently exceed expectations Become the region’s employer of choice
NYC PATCH Announces Winners of Two Prestigious VNSNY Scholarships in National Nurses Month
June 1, 2021–
“Who’s Your Nursing Hero?” Check Out This Special Nurses Month Slideshow!
May 28, 2021–At one point or another, we have all encountered someone who has inspired us in our work. So as National Nurses Month draws to a close, Frontline asked our VNSNY nursing staff to tell us about their own sources of inspiration— the individuals who motivated them as children, as nursing students, and now as health care providers. Below are some of the many responses sent in by VNSNY’s nurses from across the organization. Thank you all for sharing with us, and for touching the lives of so many of our patients, members and clients. Happy Nurses Month! If you’d like to contribute a hero, it’s not too late. Click here and we’ll add it to the slideshow.