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The Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) is a private, not-for-profit
charitable organization certified under section 501 (c) (3) of the IRS code.
For more than 100 years, our mission has been to improve the health of all
in our community. Generous support from people like you allows VNSNY to
provide services such as:
Home Health Care - Your gift helps us provide Gold Standard home health care to those who need care but lack the ability to pay. These are people young and old, with all types of needs, including short-term and long-term care. In 2003, we provided direct care to 5,000 uninsured and underinsured New Yorkers who needed care and had nowhere else to turn.
End of Life Care - Your donation helps bring the expertise of our Hospice Care team to people who wish to spend their last weeks and months at home, in familiar surroundings, with their loved ones. In 2003, we delivered hospice care to over 1,475 people in the community, and provided palliative care services to another 263. VNSNY Hospice Care provides bereavement counseling to family members for 13 months after a patient's death-long after any type of payment ceases.
Care for Children - Your gift helps provides care to chronically ill and
severely disabled children, allowing children to remain in their homes with
their families. Some 7,000 children and their families received our skilled
nursing care, rehabilitation therapy, social work, home health aide
services, support groups and family counseling last year. Our nurses teach
children with diabetes and asthma how to manage their illness and avoid
emergency room visits. Our respite nurses give parents with chronically ill
or severely disabled children a much-needed break from caregiving. Our
social workers counsel families and help link them to resources within their
community. Our Early Steps Family Center in Rockaway, Queens works with
teens families, and in particular, fathers, to develop relationships. Our
parent advocates-who have ill or disabled children of their own-offer advice
to parents who also have ill or disabled children.
Public Health Services - Your gift helps provide public health programs such
as flu shots and blood pressure and cholesterol screenings to senior
citizens and underserved populations. Each year VNSNY teams up with the NYC
Departments of Health and Aging to provide free flu shots to senior New
Yorkers. Our nurses vaccinated over 30,000 seniors last fall.
Donations to VNSNY enable us to provide approximately $18 million dollars in
charitable care each year, as well as funding the ongoing training of our
nurses and other health professionals to ensure their continued excellence.
Your donation also helps us develop new programs that improve the health of
all in our community. Thank you.
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