Your News This Week—Week of October 16, 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.
VNS Health Personal Care is moving! Starting on Monday, October 30th, our main VNS Health Personal Care office will be located at 5 Penn Plaza, New York, NY, 10001. Click here for more information.
Important: Keep patient information confidential! Be sure to comply with these HIPAA rules and regulations regarding social media and texting to help keep your patient’s personal health information protected. Click here for what you need to know.
Information needed for potential VNS Health employment opportunities: Please send in the most up-to-date information about your education, certification, and experience. Click here for more information.
Our next HHA Support Group Call—and social worker Ben Cirlin’s final Support Group Call—will be Thursday, October 19, at 1:00 p.m. For more information, click here.
Lead Supervisor Elizabeth Acosta sends a shout out to Home Health Aide team members Clara Olazabal Alimidon (pictured top left), Carmen Puello (pictured top right), Maria Escolastico (pictured bottom left), and Andrea Hernandez (pictured bottom right) for the incredible care they have provided to one of our patients. “These four aides have provided over 200 visits of incredible care for the patient. Clara, Carmen, Maria, and Andrea are patient, caring, intuitive, and a prime example of the saying, ‘Team work makes the dream work’. Thank you!”
Don’t forget to take care of yourself! Here’s one way to do this:
Get together with friends and family! Connecting in person with friends and family is more important than you think. Your friend gets your joke. Your loved one gives you a hug. This helps alleviate stress and boost your well-being. Social connection can lessen anxiety and depression, help us regulate our emotions, and lead to higher self-esteem.
The 1199SEIU offers even more tips for how to take care of yourself. To read them all, click here.