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You Saw the Solar Eclipse – Now See the Photos!
April 9, 2024–Many team members took a break Monday afternoon to view the hour-long solar eclipse – wearing their solar eclipse glasses, of course. Here are a few photos that team members took of the solar eclipse. If you have any solar eclipse photos that you’d also like to share with your colleagues on Frontline, please send them along! To submit your photo(s), click here.
Dan Lowenstein, SVP Government Affairs, Named to City & State’s “Who’s Who in Government Relations” List
April 9, 2024–
Sue Caputo, Former SVP of Business Development, Awarded Prestigious HCA Ruth F. Wilson Award
April 8, 2024–
What Do You Know About the Solar Eclipse? Take Our Quiz.
April 2, 2024–On April 8, a rare total solar eclipse took place in many parts of the country—including, starting around 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, parts of New York State. The full duration of the eclipse, including the portions where the moon only partially covers the sun, lasted a couple of hours. How much do you know about the solar eclipse and how to keep your eyes safe during the eclipse? Take our quiz and find out!
Winter News Briefs: Catch Up on What’s Happening Around VNS Health!
March 5, 2024–Although the weather may not always seem like it, it’s still officially winter. (In case you don’t believe us, here are a couple of photos that were sent into Frontline after our last snowstorm.) Here are the Winter News Briefs—your quick and easy way to catch up on news, updates, and happenings from across the organization over the past few months. If you have any news or announcements that you’d like to submit for consideration in an upcoming edition, please click here. EasyCare and EasyCare Plus Enrollment Exceeds Goals VNS Health’s Medicare Advantage plan, EasyCare, and its Medicare dual special-needs plan, EasyCare Plus, surpassed their enrollment goals for 2024. Together, the two plans enrolled over 2,500 members during last fall’s open enrollment, almost 1,000 members above their target! (And when you include VNS Health Total, our MAP plan, we completed 2,800 enrollments in total.) Credit for the plans’ strong performance goes
20 Minutes with Dan: Cherishing Belief in Children
February 28, 2024–Lillian Wald, the founder of VNS Health, once said, “We cherish belief in the children, and hope, through them, for the future.” In Dan’s first episode of 2024, the focus is on the breadth and depth of programs that VNS Health provides to children today. To see the many ways VNS Health is making a difference for children, watch here below. On-the-Go Segments Caring for Children Intro With a Special Message from Children of VNS Health Team Members—Part 1 Critical Care for an Asylum Seeker—Part 2 Giving First Time Moms and Their Babies a Strong Start—Part 3 Suicide Prevention for At-Risk Youth—Part 4 “How Can I Help?” Caring for a Terminally Ill Child—Part 5
“Neighborhood Spotlight” Video Series Wins Highest Honor at the AVA Digital Awards!
February 2, 2024–VNS Health’s “Neighborhood Spotlight” video series just won Platinum at the AVA Digital Awards – the competition’s most prestigious award! The series won in the Long Form Video category. To give you an idea of the caliber of companies that compete in the AVA Digital Awards, Platinum Award winners in other categories included Mass Mutual, AT&T, AARP, Cirque du Soleil, and NBC Universal. The AVA Digital Awards competition is an international recognition of excellence by creative professionals responsible for the planning, concept, direction, design, and production of digital communication. The Awards are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), one of the oldest, largest, and most respected evaluators of creative work in the marketing and communication industry. To celebrate this outstanding achievement, we’re introducing a new series – Encore Fridays! Starting today, on upcoming Fridays we’ll be featuring one of the Neighborhood Spotlight videos. Today’s feature…“The Freedom
CEO Dan Savitt Speaks to HHCN on the Need for Home Care in Underserved Communities
January 26, 2024–
Why Our 4 Top Company Objectives for the Next 3 Years Are So Important
January 22, 2024–By now, everyone at VNS Health should be familiar with what we want the organization to look like in 3 years. If we are successful, by 2026, VNS Health will: But how do we make this success a reality in just 3 years? That’s where our 4 Top Company Objectives come in. They’re a key part of our Strategic Plan, designed to help us achieve our vision by giving us focus. Here’s a quick look at these four Objectives and why they’re so important to our mission. Why it matters: When it comes to extending our mission by doubling the number of people in our care to 100,000, enrolling more members into VNS Health Total, our MAP (Medicaid Advantage Plus) plan, will be essential in getting us there. Here’s why: MAP plans are the gold standard for enabling low-income New Yorkers with long-term care needs to live, age and heal