VNSNY In the News – March 2022
VNSNY Media Placements for March 2022
Medium Features VNSNY’s Arthur Fitting on Zero Discrimination Day
Medium featured LGBTQ+ Program Director Arthur Fitting in an article titled “On Zero Discrimination Day, Every LGBTQ+ Community Member Needs to Count.” The piece offers Arthur’s insight into the history of the day, and also explains how VNSNY’s LGBTQ+ Care Type delivers safe, effective and patient-centered care to the LGBTQ+ community. 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.
New York City Patch Features VNSNY’s LGBTQ+ Care Type and Program Director Arthur Fitting
New York City Patch highlighted the efforts of VNSNY’s LGBTQ+ Program to deliver culturally sensitive care in “On Zero Discrimination Day, Every LGBTQ+ Member Needs to Count.” The article also features LGBTQ+ Program Manager Arthur Fitting stressing the importance of the annual observance. 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.
Manhattan Voice Features VNSNY’s LGBTQ+ Care Type for Zero Discrimination Day
Manhattan Voice featured LGBTQ+ Program Manager Arthur Fitting in an article that stresses the importance of every LGBTQ+ member being counted in the census. The article, “On Zero Discrimination Day, Every LGBTQ+ Member Needs to Count,” also spotlights several of VNSNY’s LGBTQ+ initiatives and the organization’s promise to deliver safe, effective and patient-centered care to the LGBTQ+ community. Click here to read the article!
Manhattan Voice is the #1 source for local news and health tips covering Manhattan. This article also ran in the online and print versions of Your Health Voice, Bronx Voice and Queens Voice for a total print circulation of 40,000 and 47,520 unique visitors per month.
Bronx Voice Features Social Workers Shana Maltzman and Christine Garcia for National Social Work Month
To kick off Social Work Month, Bronx Voice featured VNSNY hospice social worker Shana Maltzman, who stressed the importance of listening when working with hospice patients and their families. “Just Being There Can Mean Powerful Healing” also highlights the work of Christine Garcia, social worker with VNSNY’s Home-Based Crisis Intervention (HBCI) Program in Brooklyn, who emphasized the efficacy of empathy in end-of-life care. 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.
New York City Patch Highlights VNSNY Founder Lillian Wald’s Influence on Public Health Nursing
Timed to Women’s History Month, New York City Patch featured a biography on VNSNY founder Lillian Wald. The piece details her creation of public health nursing in 1893, and how her efforts to provide accessible, in-home nursing care to New Yorkers is still evident in the work of VNSNY today. 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.
Home Health Care News Features CEO Dan Savitt’s Commentary About Home Health Value-Based Purchasing
Dan Savitt is featured in Home Health Care News among home health care industry leaders about VNSNY’s full range of Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVPP) and robust people strategy in today’s tight labor market. Dan is quoted saying, “We’re developing a number of creative technologies designed to enhance patient communication and satisfaction and reduce hospitalizations, all of which are emphasized in the HHVBP model.” Click here to read the article!
Home Health Care News an independent source for breaking news and up-to-date information on the senior in-home care industry, with coverage spanning the home care world specifically–from large, national service providers to independent care companies. Its website receives an estimated 36,224 unique monthly visitors, and its newsletter is distributed daily to more than 12,000 healthcare industry professionals and executives across the nation.
Bronx Voice Features Guidance From VNSNY FRIENDS Clinician Salvador Garcia on Dealing With COVID-19-Related Stress
Bronx Voice featured a piece from Salvador Garcia, mental health specialist at VNSNY’s FRIENDS clinic, on healthy ways to handle the stress of COVID-19 and the importance of self-care. The article, “Managing Prolonged COVID-related Stress – What Every New Yorker Needs to Know About,” not only outlines the scope of the problem but provides actionable and achievable tools New Yorkers can use to better handle stress and help those around them. 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.
Amsterdam News Features VNSNY’s HOPE and Connect2Well Programs at Harlem Community Event
Amsterdam News featured Michelle Drayton, RN, MPH, director for Hospice and Palliative Care Outreach and the HOPE and Connect2Well programs, in a story about the first 2022 event to connect faith and community leaders with VNSNY resources. The article, “Faith-based Leaders, VNSNY Address Hospice Access in Harlem, Bronx,” stresses the dire need to bridge the gap in information and access to end-of-life resources within Harlem and the Bronx. 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.
New York Beacon Spotlights Exciting Event Hosted by VNSNY with Local Faith Leaders to Address Knowledge Gaps in Hospice Care
The New York Beacon covered a Feb 18 event for the Harlem and Bronx communities, “Hope Heals: Faith Empowers,” the first in a series for faith and community leaders hosted by VNSNY HOPE and Connect2Well programs. The sold-out event was spearheaded by a dynamic VNSNY hospice team, led by Michelle Drayton, RN, MPH, VNSNY’s Director of Hospice and Palliative Outreach. The event was designed to educate faith leaders about the HOPE and Connect2Well programs and the their mission to address the underutilization and lack of access to home care and health services among chronically ill Black and Latino/a adults.
Members of VNSNY leadership spoke at the event, including VNSNY CEO Dan Savitt, who offered his insight as to why this type of collaboration is so important, “One of the most essential aspects of effective health care is communication, so we looked at this event as one step in a conversation that we hope will continue for months and years to come,” said Dan. Read the whole article here!
The New York Beacon is a weekly general newspaper serving the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, Westchester and Long Island, NY. The newspaper covers sports, personalities, entertainment, health, local and world news and events. The New York Beacon reaches 400,000 readers per week through print and online.
BronxNet TV Features Insights from VNSNY’s Deniece Santana on Ways for Families to Manage Anxiety During Challenging Times
BronxNet TV’s Open show featured VNSNY Senior Social Work Assistant, Deniece Santana, in a wide-ranging interview on how parents can help their children better handle stress during the pandemic. Santana shared actionable coping strategies Bronx families can use to take care of themselves and their families and also identified specific VNSNY resources families can use to access behavioral health resources. Watch the full interview here!
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.
On Transgender Day of Visibility, Patch Features Thought-provoking Analysis and Q&A from VNSNY on the Importance of Culturally Sensitive Care
In a new piece for the New York City Patch, timed with International Transgender Day of Visibility, Shannon Whittington, RN MSN CCM, Certified LGBTQ+ Health, Gender Affirmation Program Director at VNSNY outlines the organization’s commitment to providing care that addresses the diverse needs of New York’s LGBTQ+ community. The byline article, “VNSNY Addresses Health Care Needs on Transgender Day of Visibility,” stresses the importance of clinical and cultural training in reducing discrimination. In addition, the piece includes a thoughtful Q&A with Asia Lyons, a Social Work Care Coordinator who works closely with VNSNY’s Gender Affirmation Surgery (GAS) program. Read the whole article here!
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.
Gay City News Spotlights VNSNY’s Gender Affirmation Program and the Importance of Inclusive Healthcare
Tying into Transgender Day of Visibility, Gay City News published a feature piece highlighting VNSNY’s Gender Affirmation Program (GAP), including interviews with VNSNY social worker, Asia Lyons, and Shannon Whittington RN MSN CCM, Certified LGBTQ+ Health, GAP Director. Lyons also emphasized the importance of inclusive and informed healthcare for New York’s LGBTQ+ community and the positive impact of visibility. “Having been through gender affirmation surgery myself, I have first-hand knowledge of what our patients are experiencing,” Lyons said. “When I call patients and explain I’m trans, many are in tears.”
The piece also included an interview with a VNSNY patient who benefitted from the GAP program, and the positive experience they had because of VNSNY’s thoughtful care. Read the whole story here!
Gay City News is America’s largest circulation LGBTQ newspaper and the only such newspaper serving New York City. Founded as LGNY in 1994, Gay City News provides authoritative, comprehensive, and up-to-the minute coverage of local, national, and international news, politics, and health issues of interest to the LGBTQ community. The website received 14,640 unique visitors per month.
In New Post for Medium, VNSNY’s Rosemary Baughn Illustrates the Benefits of Palliative Care
In an article for Medium, Rosemary Baughn, MSN, RN, and Senior Vice President Hospice and Palliative Care at VNSNY, dives into the benefits of palliative care in helping people with serious chronic conditions live and age well.
As Rosemary said, “Bringing palliative care into the home for those with multiple and often complex chronic illnesses is one of the best ways we can assure the delivery of holistic, top-quality care — care that keeps the patient’s life and personal goals in focus.” Read the whole article here!
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.
VNSNY’s Jennifer Brullo on the Challenges of Deconditioning and How to Recover, in New Post for Medium
Jennifer Brullo, Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services wrote a new article for Medium on recognizing the signs of deconditioning , and tips on how to recondition ourselves and increase independence.
“The Great Reconditioning: Recovering Strength and Mobility after Two Years of Inactivity,” also includes valuable insights from Betty Ayetiwa, a senior physical therapist at VNSNY on the challenges her patients have faced as they work to recondition their bodies after the pandemic shut daily life down, impacting their ability to stay active. The piece also provides actionable strategies that individuals can use to start the path to reconditioning. Read the full article here.
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.
