Who We Are
Our Mission
To improve the health and well-being of people through high-quality, cost effective healthcare in the home and community.
Integrity
We do the right thing even when no one is looking.
Empathy
We seek to understand others' feelings and experiences in order to actively help.
Agility
We use experience and creativity to move quickly.
Our three core Values are at the heart of everything we do at VNSNY, and are essential for carrying out VNSNY's Mission. Not only do our Values serve to empower, inspire and unify our employees, but they also help to ensure a consistently exceptional customer experience. We take great pride in these Values which are central to who we are, and which reflect our greatest asset - our people!
Commitment to the VNSNY Community
To achieve the best possible outcomes for each patient and member and to embrace a customer-service philosophy.
Commitment to VNSNY Employees
To exhibit respect to our colleagues and to work together as a team toward common goals.
Commitment to VNSNY as an Organization
To ensure the organization’s long-term financial viability and to maintain the highest ethical standards.
The History of VNSNY
At the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), we are dedicated to providing high-quality health care in the home and the community. We’ve been a vital part of New Yorkers’ lives since 1893.
1893-
1929
Lillian Wald’s vision to bring nursing services into the home leads to the founding of the Henry Street Visiting Nurse Service. Ten nurses, based at the Henry Street Settlement, provide services to residents of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The Settlement expands throughout Manhattan and the Bronx. Wald’s nurse service cares for the city during the 1916 polio outbreak and 1918 influenza epidemic. Healthmobiles are established to test for diseases like diphtheria and to administer immunizations; by the end of the decade 292,000 children had been inoculated.
