Improving Health Care for Every New Yorker

Featured Work

Reducing the Risk of Medication Overload

A UHF partnership with nursing homes focused on safe “deprescribing”—decreasing the use of potentially inappropriate medications—has successfully reduced the average number of medications prescribed to each resident for the second year

Raising Readers: It’s a Family Affair

In a new commentary, United Hospital Fund’s Susan Olivera celebrates National Literacy Month by exploring the benefits of early childhood literacy and how parents and pediatricians can help promote it.

The Ripple Effects of the Adolescent Behavioral Health Crisis

A new UHF analysis in partnership with Boston Consulting Group reveals the vast and growing toll of the adolescent behavioral health crisis and its considerable ripple effects on medical costs, productivity, and wages.

Our Focus Areas

Coverage and Access

Health insurance connects New Yorkers with essential health care while protecting against potentially bankrupting health care costs. UHF’s work helps efforts to ensure universal, affordable, comprehensive insurance coverage and access to care—and to strengthen New York’s Medicaid program.

Quality and Efficiency

Despite recent and ongoing improvements, health care quality and patient safety in New York still vary tremendously. And too often, health services fall short of fully meeting patients’ needs. UHF is working to help fill the gap by making New York’s health care more patient-focused, outcome-driven, safe, effective, and efficient.

Clinical-Community Partnerships

There’s far more to health than health care alone. To address issues and risk factors that can affect patients’ well-being outside the medical or clinical setting, UHF is forging alliances between the health care system, social services, and the community.

UHF at Work