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VNSNY has been serving the residents of Brooklyn for over 20 years. We're very much a part of the fabric of the Brooklyn community - of our 10,400 employees, over 3,100 live in Brooklyn.
- In 2003, VNSNY served more than 20,600 patients in Brooklyn.
- Many of our patients come from 10 hospitals in Brooklyn where we have in-hospital coordinators who arrange for seamless transfers of inpatient care to home care. In addition, our patients are also referred to us by their physicians. In 2003, physicians referred over 3,000 patients directly to VNSNY.
- While over half of the patients we see in Brooklyn are over 65 years old, the rest are young adults and children.
- The majority -- 63% -- of our Brooklyn patients are female.
- Our presence in the Brooklyn community is especially important because 31% of our adult patients live alone and 16% have no caretakers.
- In 2003, nearly 15% of our patients in Brooklyn were Spanish speaking; 8% were Russian speaking.
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