Your News This Week—Week of September 21, 2026
Don’t miss 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.
Get Your Flu Shot or Sign a Flu Declination Form by Tuesday, December 1! Getting your flu shot helps protect you and the people you care for every day. You can get your flu shot through New York Best Medical who has started reaching out to schedule free flu shots for all HHA team members – please be sure to attend your appointment! Click here for more information.
Reminder: Earn 500 points from VNS Health Rewards if you complete your in-service trainings in Nevvon by Friday, October 2nd! To access your training, log in to your HHAeXchange app and click on the Nevvon banner at the top of the home screen. For instructions on how to access your training, you can view the video by clicking here.
Live Translated Captions Now Available on CEO Zooms and Support Calls! We are pleased to announce that live translated captions are now available in Spanish, Chinese, English, and other languages for all CEO Zoom meetings and Support Calls, as long as you are using the Zoom app on your phone or computer. To learn more, click here.
Don’t miss our next HHA Support Call on Thursday, September 24th at 1:00 p.m. – special guest, Faye Morgan, Manager, OSU Cert Services for Personal Care. Topic: Information about new applications (HHAeXchange/Caribou-Shift booking & VNS Health Rewards/Nevvon-Inservice platform). Hope you can make it! For more information, click here.
Supervisor Veronica Amoah sends a shout out to Home Health Aide team member Natasha Brathwaite. Natasha was recently praised by a client’s case manager who wrote, “I would like to sincerely thank Natasha for the care, support, and dedication provided to her client over the years. The kindness and commitment have been greatly appreciated.” Thank you, Natasha, for taking such great care of your clients!
How to Talk About Suicide—and Potentially Save a Life.
September is Suicide Prevention Month—a time dedicated to raising awareness and supporting meaningful action around one of the most urgent mental health issues of our time. To mark this important occasion, Frontline recently caught up with some VNS Health team members with decades of experience in suicide prevention.
To read the discussion, which includes why talking about suicide matters, how to approach someone we’re concerned about, and the role all of us can play in creating a culture of connection and support, click here.