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• Queens Voice Features Expertise from RN Ruth Caballero for American Heart Month

Queens Voice featured VNSNY’s Ruth Caballero, RN in, “A Nurse’s Visit Helps Keep High Blood Pressure In Check,” an article timed to American Heart Month. The piece features heart-health awareness tips for preventing hypertension, a condition that afflicts nearly half of all Americans. Click here to read the article!

Queens Voice is the true voice of Queens, covering local news, events and health tips. This article also ran in the online and print versions of Your Health Voice, Bronx Voice and Manhattan Voice for a total print circulation of 40,000 and 47,520 unique visitors per month.

• Amsterdam News Features VNSNY’s Ruth Caballero, RN for American Heart Month

Amsterdam News featured Ruth Caballero, RN in, “Silent Killer No More: How to Recognize and Treat Hypertension.” The piece provides insight into HTN symptoms and lifestyle steps people can take to prevent hypertensive illness. Click here to read the article!

Published weekly, Amsterdam News is the voice of one of the largest and most influential Black communities in the country and the world. It has a print circulation of 15,000 and monthly page views of nearly 450,000.

• NYC Patch Highlights VNSNY Blood Pressure Tips

New York City Patch spotlighted disparities among African Americans in risk for high blood pressure, and offers expert health tips from VNSNY’s Ruth Caballero, RN for keeping it under control. Click here to read the article!

Patch is a hyperlocal news platform in more than 1,200 communities nationwide. With nearly 1 million monthly page views, Patch NYC’s page views are among the highest in the network.

• Medium Features VNSNY’s Arthur Fitting on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Medium featured LGBTQ+ Program Director Arthur Fitting for National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day in, “The HIV/AIDS Pandemic is Still With Us. So is Progress.” The piece provides expert commentary and personal perspective drawing on Arthur Fitting’s three decades as a nurse and a gay man working in the healthcare field, and offers five important tips for maintaining health and wellness today. Click here to read the article!

Medium serves as an open platform where over 100 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking. Their expert and undiscovered voices alike dive into the heart of any topic and bring new ideas to the surface. Their purpose is to spread these ideas and deepen understanding of the world. Medium has 164,000,000 unique visitors per month.

• BronxNet Features Expertise from Nurse Denise Simmonds on Reducing the Risk of Hypertension

BronxNet TV featured VNSNY Public Health Nurse Denise Simmonds in a community health interview timed to American Heart Month. During the segment, Denise provided statistical insights and guidelines for prevention of hypertension, which disproportionately impacts people of color. Click here to watch the interview!

BronxNet TV provides local television by the people of the Bronx, for the people of the Bronx. It has a viewership of 350,000 and its website receives 20,300 unique monthly visitors. BronxNet TV is also streamed live on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN), a media learning, production, and distribution hub that promotes creative expression, independent voices and community engagement. Manhattan Neighborhood Network runs Manhattan’s public access TV channels, reaching some 600,000 cable subscribers in the borough.

• Our Time Press Features VNSNY Partnership with Brooklyn Neighborhood Services NORC

Our Time Press has featured one of VNSNY’s Brooklyn NORC partnerships in, “Brooklyn Neighborhood Services Partners with Visiting Nurse Service of New York to Bring Health Assistance to Older Adults in District 36-Brooklyn.” In the article, Rhonda Soberman, Manager of Program Development, says,  “We look forward to our collaborative work with the staff of BNS to address the health needs of District 36 seniors. Our experience working with NORC programs throughout NYC has shown that NORCs have been extremely effective in assisting seniors to successfully age in place. We know that seniors will benefit by our shared dedication to home-based support services.” Click here to read the article!

Our Time Press is the largest African American fully owned and operated weekly newspaper in Brooklyn, New York with a diverse readership of 40,000 weekly throughout New York City, Westchester, the Capital Region and beyond.

• Bronx Voice Features VNSNY Clinicians on Reducing Health Disparities for Black History Month

Bronx Voice featured Denise Simmonds, RN, Michelle Drayton, RN, and Ruth Caballero, RN, in “Black History Month: 3 Critical Steps for Reducing Health Disparities.”  The piece provides insights into social determinants of health—or the economic and social conditions that influence health status—that contribute to common health disparities that challenge our communities. Click here to read the article!

Bronx Voice is the #1 source for local news and health tips covering the Bronx. This article also ran in the online and print versions of Your Health Voice, Manhattan Voice and Queens Voice for a total print circulation of 40,000 and 47,520 unique visitors per month.