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A Message from the Board Chair and the President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Enriching the lives

of vulnerable New Yorkers

We are pleased to share with you our 2018 Charitable Care and Community Benefit Report. This report
highlights the many ways that the Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY), with the generous help of our donors
and community supporters, is providing essential and often life-changing assistance to vulnerable New Yorkers.

VNSNY’s important safety-net programs featured in this report carry a special meaning in this, our 125th year. At a time
when the future of America’s health care and social support systems remains uncertain, VNSNY’s ongoing dedication
to our century-and-a-quarter-old mission of caring for those in need is a testament to our organization’s enduring
values and steadfast commitment to make a difference in our patients’ and members’ lives.

As this report demonstrates, VNSNY’s charitable care and community benefit activities have a profound and sustained
impact on New Yorkers of every background—including the chronically ill, the frail elderly, children, the insured, under-insured
and the uninsured. In 2017, VNSNY along with its generous supporters and funding partners, including our own
employees, provided in excess of $47 million in charitable care and community benefit programs—enabling us to
offer free direct home care services to more than 8,500 under-and uninsured individuals, while also carrying out a wide
range of initiatives that provided critical support to thousands of additional individuals and families.

2018 is a special year for VNSNY in more ways than one. Not only does it mark the 125th anniversary of the year
Lillian Wald first began providing home health services to impoverished immigrants on Manhattan’s Lower East
Side, but 2018 is also the 35th anniversary of both our VNSNY Hospice and Palliative Care program and our
Partners in Care, as well as the 25th anniversary of VNSNY’s Center for Home Care Policy and Research, and
the 20th anniversary of VNSNY CHOICE’s Managed Long-Term Care plan.

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