Your News This Week—Week of March 23, 2026
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.
Complete your in-service courses to stay in compliance! There are currently six in-service courses available to take in CareConnect. It is important to complete all six courses by Tuesday, March 31st to stay in compliance. These courses are required by New York State to maintain your certification and to continue working on your current client assignments. Thank you for completing your courses now!
Announcing the 10 winners of the VNS Health Rewards monthly raffle for February! Click here to see who was randomly selected.
In case you missed it: As of Sunday, February 22, you now have access to a new job-protected unpaid sick time-off option. Click here for what you need to know.
Don’t miss our next HHA Support Call on Thursday, March 26th at 1:00 p.m. – with special guest, Kimberley Fisher, Senior Case Management Specialist, Worker’s Compensation. (Topic will be “Safe Patient Handling and How to Report Safety Concerns and Requests for Assistance.”) For more information, click here.
Supervisor Julie Rueca sends a big shout out to the Home Health Aide team members working at Euclid Hall: Alicia Mendez, Carmen Sanchez, Debbie Barnes, Lucy Jayson, Mallisa Demendonca, Pierre Sejour, and Wonda Boglo. Thank you for providing excellent and compassionate care to your clients, and for being so professional! They do an amazing job working together as team and making sure each client gets the service they need each day. Special shout out to Lead Home Health Aide Mallisa for doing a wonderful job scheduling the team and always communicating issues to her supervisor!
Don’t forget to wear a mask when you’re with clients!
Help keep your clients, your family and yourself healthy during flu season by wearing a mask when you’re with clients. We will be calling randomly selected clients each day to ask if their HHA wore a mask during their visit.