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
- Kevin C. Riley Council Member, District 12 (Bronx)
- Amanda C. Farías Council Member, District 18 (Bronx)
- Linda Lee Council Member, District 23 (Queens)
- Crystal Hudson Council Member, District 35 (Brooklyn)
- Mercedes Narcisse Council Member, District 46 (Brooklyn)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Cozen O'Connor Public Strategies, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department for the Aging City agency
- Department of Health and Mental Hygiene City agency
- Department of Social Services City agency
- Department of Youth and Community Development City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
- Rafael Salamanca Jr.
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Behavioral Health funding
- Budget - Budget appropriations
- Budget - NYC budget
- Determination of Board or Commission - determination
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
- Continuation of the Nurse-Family Partnership program in NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620211413741 $42,000,000
- Geriatric Mobile Outreach program Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620238800422 $5,310,203
- Mobile Treatment: individuals w/ serious mental illness Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620200001011 $2,716,669
- FY25-27 Discretionary/ Mental Health Initiative/Member Item Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620258807131 $210,075
- Intensive Mobile Treatment - Queens Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620191407010 · ended 2025 $26,432,937
- COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE MODEL AND MANAGED ADDICTION TREATMENT Department of Social Services · CT106920131417749 · ended 2017 $19,794,664
- Mobile Crisis Teams and Care Coordination Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620238800291 · ended 2025 $19,378,696
- Geriatric Outreach/ Mobile Crisis team Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620200001145 · ended 2022 $18,654,522
- CLINICAL CASE MANAGEMENT FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSE CLIENTS Department of Social Services · CT106920111435882 · ended 2013 $16,554,462
- Geriatric Outreach / Mobile Crisis Team Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620171418632 · ended 2019 $15,936,244
- Mental Health Services Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620140000978 · ended 2016 $13,731,439
- BX NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620100014745 · ended 2013 $8,027,200
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS TO HOMEBOUND ELDERLY Department for the Aging · CT112520090017641 · ended 2011 $6,649,683
- NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP IN THE BRONX Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620090004936 · ended 2010 $5,059,650
- HOME-DELIVERED MEALS Department for the Aging · CT112520090017734 · ended 2011 $4,919,492
- HOMEDELIVERED MEALS TO HOMEBOUND ELDERLY Department for the Aging · CT112520090017740 · ended 2011 $4,396,970
- Nursing Assessment Services Department of Social Services · CT106920111435871 · ended 2013 $3,430,350
- HOME DELIVERED MEALS TO HOMEBOUND ELDERLY Department for the Aging · CT112520090017739 · ended 2011 $3,333,626
- PROVIDE NURSING ASSESSMENT SERVICES Department of Social Services · CT106920080021657 · ended 2010 $3,118,500
- NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP / MANHATTAN Department of Health and Mental Hygiene · CT181620090006858 · ended 2010 $2,552,398
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
- Crystal Hudson It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 2 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Kevin C. Riley It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction
- Linda Lee It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 3 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
- Mercedes Narcisse It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 2 agencies in their committees' jurisdiction
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
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.361 Nursing Research · National Institutes of Health · Grant $3,465,853
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.226 Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes · Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality · Grant $1,519,729
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.866 Aging Research · National Institutes of Health · Grant $585,710
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.866 Aging Research · National Institutes of Health · Grant $534,114
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.866 Aging Research · National Institutes of Health · Grant $474,161
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.866 Aging Research · National Institutes of Health · Grant $334,788
- Department of Health and Human Services 93.866 Aging Research · National Institutes of Health · Grant $180,901