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Your News This Week— Week of August 21, 2023

Here’s the latest issue of Your News This Week! Published weekly, this newsletter is dedicated to our Home Health Aide team and includes what you need to know each week.

You can now earn more rewards points than ever – just for using the HHAeXchange app! From August 16 until September 15, you will earn $15.00 (1,500 points) for every five (5) times you use the HHAx app to complete a client visit. Click here for what you need to know.

From HHA to RN: Donna Wilson’s Inspiring Journey: As a former Home Health Aide (HHA) at VNS Health, Donna had a dream to become a nurse. Click here to read more about her inspiring story from growing up in Guyana to now working as an RN, Clinical Care Manager for VNS Health Care Management.

Sign up to take a free “Transgender 101” class: Want to learn more about the transgender community? You are invited to take a free “Transgender 101” class. There are three (3) more sessions to choose from. Click here to learn more and to register.

Reminder: There is no HHA Support Group Call this week! Our next HHA Support Group Call will be Thursday, August 31, at 1:00 p.m. For more information, click here.

Supervisor Anna Savinskaya sends her appreciation to Home Health Aide team member Annmarie Daley (pictured) for the care she provides to her client who has dementia. Not only is the client very attached to Annmarie, but the client’s daughter says Annmarie feels like family that she can trust. Supervisor Anna adds, “we love that Annmarie loves her job at VNS Health and we are so glad she is part of our team.”

Take care of yourself! There are many ways you can do this.

Schedule some “me” time: Do something that makes you feel good. It could be reading a book, watching a movie, listening to some music or just taking a nice walk.

The 1199SEIU offers even more tips for how to take care of yourself. To read them all, click here.