Your News This Week—Week of October 6, 2025
Check out 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.
Congratulations to all the 2025 Personal Care Honor Awards recipients! On Tuesday, September 30, the 42nd Annual Personal Care Honor Awards Ceremony was held. Check out who received awards this year, including the HHA of the Year! Click here for the full list of awardees and photos from the ceremony.
Employment opportunity: On-call aides needed from 12:00 noon – 8:00 p.m.! There are multiple employment opportunities available, with $22.00 per hour and 40 hours per week guaranteed. Click here to learn more.
Flu season is here – get your flu shot! New York Best Medical will be contacting you soon to schedule your flu vaccine. Click here for what you need to know.
The next HHA Support Call is Thursday, October 9 at 1:00 p.m. – with special co-host, SVP Jim Rolla. For more information, click here.
Supervisor Natalya Gefter sends a big shout out to the many HHAs who helped care for one Brooklyn patient. The client’s daughter recently wrote in to acknowledge and show her appreciation for the excellent care her father received from the following HHA team members: Anatoliy Mykhalchuk for “his unbelievable care in every step”, Irina Kuzmina for “for all
her love, care, patience, professionalism, and caring”, Olga Bukhantsova for “always helping”, Zulfiya Galiyeva for “her professionalism, flexibility, organization and always finding a way to give him a little pleasure”, Sergei Lopukhin “always had a way with my father to make him feel better, more alert and helping to communicate with outside world”, Yaroslav Poznyak “stunned us with his level of responsibility and caring”, and finally, Lyubov Perez for “her amazing kindness and care”.
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