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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
Hospice News Spotlights VNS Health Rebrand
January 29, 2024–
Social Worker Joseph Bleiberg Speaks with Hospice News on Serving Diverse Communities
January 22, 2024–
VNS Health Hospice Clinicians Featured on NBC’s Sunday TODAY Show!
December 11, 2023–Eight VNS Health hospice clinicians recently gathered in honor of National Home Care and Hospice Month to pose for a photo that was submitted to NBC’s Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist. Willie’s team chose to feature our photo yesterday—Sunday, December 10th! This top-rated national TV show has an estimated audience of over 21 million viewers. Hats off to Malaika Alleyne, Milena Zaprianova, Jasmine Tsai, Marc Desormeau, Natalie LoDolce, Maxine Morales, Emma Finn, and Natalie Festa for putting on their brightest smiles in this Sunday TODAY “Mug Shot!” Watch the video here!
Expansion of Hospice Education Campaign to Brooklyn Covered by NYN Media
November 2, 2023–