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Saluting Our Hospice Spiritual Care Counselors! Watch This Special Video!
October 25, 2024–This week is Spiritual Care Awareness Week (October 20-26), a time when we recognize the valuable and meaningful work provided by our Hospice Care spiritual caregivers. Our Spiritual Care Counselors play many roles, as they help patients and their loved ones through one of life’s most important journeys at the end of life. VNS Health has 12 Spiritual Care Counselors on our Hospice Care team. These skilled and dedicated team members support our Hospice Care patients and their families by listening, providing guidance and emotional support as part of the compassionate care delivered by an interdisciplinary team. To celebrate the inspiring care they provide, we invite you to watch this short, heart-warming video below of VNS Health Spiritual Care Counselor Jensen Jones.
Breaking Down Siloes to Address Health Care Gaps in the Rockaways and Staten Island
September 30, 2024–Team members from across the organization roll out two strategic initiatives centered on the geographically isolated Rockaways in Southern Queens and at-risk communities in Staten Island. The goal of these initiatives is to address health care gaps in these communities, which have higher rates of chronic illness and less access to health care than other parts of the city. At the same time, the initiatives aim to increase local market share of our Provider lines of business and our Health Plans and enhance our visibility in these underserved neighborhoods.
Hospice News Story on Sustainable Tech Growth Features Sarani Doshi, VP Financial Planning and Analysis
July 31, 2024–
Hospice News Takes Dive into Research Co-Authored by Research Center on Race Disparities in Hospice Discharge Rates
July 30, 2024–
Changing Lives—and Making Magic Happen—in the Rockaways
July 22, 2024–INSIDE PROVIDER SERVICES with David Rosales Hello, and welcome to my Frontline column, “Inside Provider Services.” I’m excited to be sharing this column, which will focus on our Provider Services teams—Home Care (CHHA), Hospice, Behavioral Health, Personal Care and the CMO—and all the great work they’re doing. So let’s get started! Earlier this year, I was interviewed for our external newsletter, VNS Health Today. The very first question I was asked: “What would you say is VNS Health’s greatest strength as an organization?” I replied that I thought it was our ability to build trust with our patients and their families and to change the entire direction of their lives. When we do that, I said, that’s where the magic happens. I truly believe this. Our ability to build trust and change lives is why so many providers in the community turn to us to manage a patient’s care after
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