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When you send a generous donation to VNSNY, you help your neighbors and
friends in need. You help people recover from serious injuries. You help
families cope with chronic illness. You help children recover from acute
illnesses. And you help provide home health care to people who have no
health insurance or are underinsured.
Here are just a few examples of the people VNSNY helped in 2003.
Helping When Others Won't
Jerry's mother is 93 years old, a strongly independent woman who is facing the limitations of her advancing age. "When your body doesn't permit you to do what you would like to do, there aren't many choices for people with limited resources,” Jerry says. After pursuing other home care options, Jerry turned to VNSNY. We mapped out a plan of care to help his mother with her personal and health care needs. One of our financial coordinators worked with Jerry to locate the financial resources to make the plan of care work – something very few home health care agencies would take the time to do.
"It's a pleasure and a relief to know there are people in your organization who really care about what happens to older people who can no longer care for themselves," Jerry says.
The Caring Continues
Myram's wife Shirley had fought colon cancer for more than three years when she entered VNSNY Hospice Care. Myram and Shirley had been married for more than 50 years, so when she died, it hit Myram hard. He was consumed by grief and became sick and depressed. His doctor suggested he call VNSNY Hospice Care for support.
Our bereavement counselors, who understand the slow, cyclical process of grief, provided a safe environment to help Myram move through his grief. Eventually, Myram got out of the house, joined an adult center, and felt his spirits lift.
VNSNY Hospice Care provides bereavement counseling to family members for 13 months after a patient's death - long after any type of payment ceases.
Injured and Uninsured
Kenneth is a young man who had a motorcycle accident in 2003. None of the odd jobs he holds offer health insurance, so when it came time for him to leave the hospital, his family turned to VNSNY for home care. Our nurses visited him each day, cleaned his wounds, and changed his dressings until he recovered, all free of charge.
His mother wrote in to thank us: "What a wonderful experience. VNSNY gave my son excellent care, without any of the red tape."
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