Organizational News
A Man Is Sitting on the Hood of Your Car. What Should You Do?
April 16, 2024–VNS Health is committed to keeping its team members safe, particularly those who work in the field. To that end, VNS Health has an individual on staff whose primary focus is to keep team members safe. Our Emergency Management and Employee Safety Director, Lauren Campbell, works with departments across the organization as well as outside agencies to implement and maintain ways to keep both team members in the field and those based in the office as safe as possible. Here, below are four true-life situations experienced by VNS Health team members. We’ve included how the team member responded, and Lauren’s advice on what to do if something similar should ever happen to you. Do you have a safety-related question for Lauren that you’d like to be considered in our next safety article? If yes, click here to submit. “A man was sitting on the hood of my car.“ “Around 4:30
Sue Caputo, Former SVP of Business Development, Awarded Prestigious HCA Ruth F. Wilson Award
April 8, 2024–
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Home Health Care News Dives into Study from Columbia Nursing and VNS Health on Verbal Communication During In-Home Visits
November 29, 2023–
How Well Do You Know Thanksgiving? Take Our Quiz!
November 20, 2023–Thanksgiving is a time for coming together with family and friends. For many patients, members, and clients, they’re able to be at home at Thanksgiving because of a VNS Health team member’s commitment to our mission. For instance, a Home Care clinician may have helped a family member learn how to change a bandage so a patient can be at home… or a Hospice team member is on call… or a Health Plan team member thought ahead to prearrange for services so there’d be no interruption of care for a plan member… or a Personal Care home health aide team member will be working on Thursday so that a patient, member, or client can receive the services they need to be at home with family and friends on Thanksgiving. To all of our colleagues who have helped make this Thanksgiving more cheerful for our patients, members, and clients, we dedicate this
Team Members in the Media: October Highlights!
November 13, 2023–When New Yorkers look for quality-based guidance and trends for health care services delivered in the home and community, VNS Health is one of the first places they turn. A quick look at our many team members featured in the news last month speaks to the powerful impact our organization has on the health of our neighbors. Click below to learn more! Team members featured in news stories this October include: Celebrating News of Jim Rolla’s 2023 NYS HCP Award The New York Business Journal and New York Nonprofit Media featured the exciting news that Jim Rolla, SVP, Personal Care has been awarded the 2023 Founders’ Spirit Award by the New York State Association of Home Care Providers. Both announcements shared details of Jim’s ongoing work and dedication to the home care industry. Read on Frontline here. Home Health Care News Spotlights VNS Health’s Approach to Payer Innovation Home Health
CEO Dan Savitt Speaks with Modern Healthcare on Medicare Advantage Rates
November 9, 2023–
Advisory Board Features Insight from CEO Dan Savitt in Story on CMS Home Health Cuts
November 7, 2023–
The 2023 Halloween Selfies Are Here!
November 6, 2023–VNS Health team members — and their friends and family — certainly had a lot of fun this Halloween! Click through the slideshow to see the scary, creative, adorable, and funny costumes that were sent in from across the organization! Thanks to everyone who submitted their photos! If you have any additional pictures to share, please send them in by clicking here. Happy Halloween from VNS Health!
CEO Dan Savitt Speaks to the Impact of CMS Home Health Cuts with Modern Healthcare
November 3, 2023–
CEO Dan Savitt Shares Perspective on latest CMS Home Health Cuts in Home Healthcare News
November 3, 2023–
Here They Are: Our Autumn News Briefs!
October 17, 2023–Here is the latest edition of News Briefs—a quick and easy way to catch up on news, updates, and happenings 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. The Mystery of the 72-Year-Old Egg Many years ago, John Amalfitano, a BSC in VNS Health’s MD Orders Department, helped an elderly neighbor who needed assistance in locating something he’d packed away. The neighbor—artist, stage designer and modern-dance choreographer Miller Richardson—had about 13 rooms filled with elaborately organized boxes full of memorabilia. “As I was searching, I came across an ink-bottle box from the 1950s, and in it, neatly wrapped in tissue, was an egg with writing on it,” remembers John, who’s worked at VNS Health for 33 years. Scribbled on the egg in pencil were the words “Whoever gets this egg,