Hospice Care
Latest Hospice Care News
Teresa Lin, VP Cultural Market Development, Speaks to Hospice News on Why a Diverse Workforce Makes for Better Care Delivery
July 3, 2024–
Sharing Her Vast Health Care Expertise, Hospice’s Bonnie Lauder Has Written a Textbook!
June 15, 2024–Bonnie Lauder, MS, MIS, RN, PMHNP, CPHQ, VP, Operations with VNS Health Hospice Care, has co-authored a new textbook: Evidence-Based Practice Improvement. This insightful book, which Bonnie wrote with Rona Levin, PhD, RN, “serves as a blueprint for guiding health care improvements based on evidence that incorporates potential changes of direction, which often happen midstream,” says Bonnie. The book is written for both the academic and clinical health care communities, she adds, with the aim of helping to advance health care’s Quadruple Aim: enhancing the patient experience, improving population health, reducing costs, and improving the work life of health care providers. Evidence-Based Practice Improvement is available in paperback in bookstores everywhere, including Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
Raising Hospice Awareness in New York’s Chinese Community
June 15, 2024–A series of educational workshops hosted by VNS Health is raising awareness and dispelling common myths about hospice care among New York City’s Chinese residents. “By addressing these misconceptions, our aim is to help more people in New York’s Chinese community access the compassionate care that hospice provides,” said Teresa M. Lin, Vice President, Cultural Market Development. To date, over 15 educational workshops have been held at VNS Health’s community centers in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn as well as senior centers around the city, with more than 1,000 people attending. Conducted in Mandarin and/or Cantonese, the workshops are part of a broader campaign that includes print articles in major Chinese-language media outlets.
Honoring VNS Health’s Nurses for National Nurses Month. See the Photos (and Videos)!
May 28, 2024–To celebrate National Nurses Month, events were held honoring VNS Health’s nurses in every New York City borough plus Westchester and Long Island. Click on the links below to see slideshows of our nursing colleagues in photos from each event—and don’t miss the videos featuring government officials giving special tributes to VNS Health at the Brooklyn and Bronx celebrations! Manhattan — May 3, 2024 Staten Island — May 7, 2024 Queens — May 9, 2024 Long Island — May 14, 2024 Westchester — May 16, 2024 Brooklyn — May 22, 2024 NYC Council Member and Former VNS Health Nurse Mercedes Narcisse at Brooklyn Nurses Month Giving VNS Health a Proclamation Bronx — May 23, 2024 Mahnoor Jaura from Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson’s Office Presenting a Proclamation for VNS Health In Honor of Nurses Month And a little music and dancing … Manhattan for New Nurses — May 31
Improving Hospice Quality of Care by Supporting and Empowering Families
April 30, 2024–Here is the latest in the series, “Objectives in Action.” Each month, we’ll feature a team from across the organization that’s working to make one of our 4 Top Company Objectives a reality. Next up, our Hospice Care team. The VNS Health Hospice Care team has a challenging pair of Objectives: To lead the New York City hospice market in quality and improve the financial sustainability of our Hospice program. By making this happen, the team will also be helping VNS Health achieve our Top Company Objective of bringing our operating margins and cost structure in line with the rest of the industry. Here’s the story behind the many exciting patient-centered initiatives the Hospice team has launched to achieve their Objectives and support and empower families, all with an eye towards improving quality of care. The situation: The goal of hospice care is to have a patient remain comfortable and
Over 300 People Volunteer to Help Us Fulfill Our Mission. We Spoke to Four of Them.
April 22, 2024–It’s National Volunteer Week—a perfect time to celebrate our dedicated volunteers! Volunteers help teams in all parts of our organization, including Hospice Care, Gender Affirmation, Finance, Business Development, and Home Care. They visit Hospice patients at home, provide comfort and companionship to Home Care patients, assist with administrative functions, even help write educational materials. In 2023, a total of 323 individuals from Home Care and Hospice volunteered 20,243 hours of their time to VNS Health. In dollars, this comes out to about $650,000 in estimated savings to the organization. More importantly, what volunteers provide to our patients, members, and clients – as well as to our organization – is invaluable. No doubt about it, volunteers play a vital role at VNS Health. We recently interviewed four of them to learn more about their experiences as VNS Health volunteers. Here are their stories. “I feel I’m doing something important, and it
Yahoo! Finance Shares News of RN Marylou Mendoza’s HCHB Gold Standard Award
March 29, 2024–
Hospice News Spotlights VNS Health’s Innovative Approach to Clinician Onboarding
February 14, 2024–
Supporting Those Who’ve Lost Loved Ones: A Day in the Life of Willis Partington
January 30, 2024–Welcome to “A Day in the Life”—the Frontline series that follows team members from different parts of VNS Health as they go about a typical day fulfilling our organization’s mission—to improve the health and well-being of people in the home and in the community. Today, we feature a day in the life of… Willis Partington, Lead Bereavement Counselor for VNS Health’s hospice program. Besides supervising the bereavement team and providing solace, and a listening ear to bereaved family members and caregivers, he also offers support to members of the hospice team—and beyond. We asked Willis to take us through a typical day. 6:30 a.m. I wake up at 6:30, which is when things start happening around the house; my wife is getting ready for work and waking up my son, who’s in high school. At around 7:00, I’ll have my morning coffee and juice and a breakfast of scrambled eggs