2011 Annual Report - Visiting Nurse Service of New York

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VNSNY CHOICE Health Plans experienced robust growth in 2011.
VNSNY CHOICE Managed Long Term Care (MLTC) reached a
milestone by enrolling its 10,000th member. VNSNY CHOICE MLTC is the
first MLTC in New York State to achieve this result. VNSNY CHOICE MLTC
was also granted approval to expand the MLTC plan in Nassau, Suffolk
and Westchester Counties. Also in 2011, VNSNY CHOICE Medicare grew
by more than 25 percent, reaching 7,500 members.
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NSNY made the list of Best Companies to Work for in New York State and was
ranked among the top five large nonprofits nationwide in the Best NonProfits to
Work For competition.
We opened our Haven Hospice Specialty Care Unit, a 25-bed
facility devoted to in-patient hospice care for situations in which
someone in home hospice care needs to be briefly hospitalized. Offering
round-the-clock medical and nursing intervention for symptom relief,
VNSNY Haven, located at Bellevue Hospital Center, was designed as a
peaceful, therapeutic environment—far removed from the bustling Acute Care floors—and
is an important resource for the program and for the patients and families it serves.
VNSNY provided education, resources, tips and a vital sense of
community to more than 1,500 caregivers in all five boroughs and
Westchester County through our popular and expanding Preventing
Caregiver Burnout Seminars, co-sponsored by elected officials.
Partners in Care opened a new home health aide training site at
55 Exchange Place. The new facility has five classrooms and two
laboratory rooms, adding to the nine classrooms and two labs at 1250
Broadway, thus ensuring that our aides will continue to receive stateof-the-art
training as home health care grows and changes.