Visiting Nurse Service of New York

Lobbying client

Visiting Nurse Service of New York, a nonprofit founded in 1893 that now operates under the name VNS Health, provides home health care, hospice and palliative care, and behavioral health services, reporting more than 99,000 patients and members served on a given day. The organization has filed 30 lobbying disclosures since 2024, one of the more active clients in the city's lobbying data, retaining Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies to lobby seven City Council members, Adrienne Adams, Amanda Farias, Crystal Hudson, Kevin Riley, Linda Lee, Mercedes Narcisse and Rafael Salamanca Jr., on behavioral health funding and city budget appropriations.

Council members lobbied
7
Filings (since 2024)
30
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$191,889
Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts (active)
$50,236,947 · 4 contracts
Awarded all-time
$402,428,386 · 106 since 2007, incl. expired
Paid to date
$334,374,770
Won without a fresh bid
71% of contract value · $286,941,999 · 92 contracts
Based in
New York, NY

Lobbied these council members

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Lobbied former members

Members who have since left their seat

What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. Current operating name of Visiting Nurse Service of New York since a May

Where their influence converges

Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in

Federal awards

Federal awards made directly to this organization in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. Each amount is what the federal government has OBLIGATED on that award as recorded on USAspending.gov as of 2026-08-31 — money committed, not money paid out. These are prime awards only: federal money this

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