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The Fund's work and insights play an important role, locally and nationally, in shaping media stories on a range of critical health care topics. Following is a recent sampling:

  • Cityscape, a journal of the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, publishes an article written by Fredda Vladeck, director of the Fund's Aging in Place Inititive, and four others about a United Hospital Fund collaborative effort under way in 34 low- and moderate-income communities in New York City that is a systemic approach to healthy aging. (July 19, 2010)
     
  • A front-page New York Times article about New York City's efforts to make the city "a kinder and gentler place in which to grow old"—efforts in which Fredda Vladeck has played a guiding role—Ms. Vladeck cautions that the city should not overlook the frail elderly. (July 19, 2010)
     
  • The Health Affairs blog publishes an essay—co-written by Carol Levine, director of the Fund's Familes and Health Care Project, Eric Coleman of the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine. and Mary Naylor of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing—that makes a strong case that "patient-centered care and coordination should be foundational, not optional." (July 14, 2010)
     
  • In a New York Times article guiding family caregivers on what they can do to make hospital discharges smoother and safer, the Next Step in Care website is identified as a source for help with medication management and with planning discharges from hospital to a home or a nursing home. (June 18, 2010)
     
  • In a two-part interview conducted by the Alzheimer's Association (Part 1 and Part 2), Carol Levine discusses the status of family caregiving today, the impact of cognitive impairment on caregiving, the Next Step in Care Campaign, the new TC-QuIC collaborative project, young caregivers, and coping with the stresses of being a caregiver. (Spring 2010 and Summer 2010)
     
  • In the front-page New York Times article "Paterson's Ability to Lead Is Questioned," Fund President Jim Tallon addresses the New York Governor's decision to end his candidacy:  "Stepping away from a campaign has to, at least in some sense, open up the possibility of advancing some of the governmental discussions, but the size of the problem is huge and the underlying political tensions are largely still there." (February 27, 2010)
     
  • The article "Measuring Coverage for Seniors in Medicare Part A and Estimating the Cost of Making It Universal," written by Michael Birnbaum, policy director of the Fund's Medicaid Institute, and Elizabeth Patchias, health policy analyst, is published In the peer-reviewed Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. (February 2010)
     
  • In the Crain's New York Business magazine article "Fate of Key Fed Health Subsidy Uncertain after Senate Upset," Jim Tallon notes, "Going forward, the most urgent issue in New York is the Federal matching rate for Medicaid." (January 25-31, 2010) Note: Access to the linked article may require a subscription.
     
  • In the front-page New York Times article "Insurer Steps Up Fight to Control Health Care Cost," Sean Cavanaugh, director of health care finance, is quoted, pointing out that negotiating price reductions and controlling utilization are the hardest ways for insurers to hold down costs. (January 24, 2010)
     
  • In the Time magazine article "What if All 50 States Get Ben Nelson's Medicaid Deal?" Jim Tallon is quoted, explaining why the Senator's deal for Nebraska may have been a blessing for New York and other states. (January 15, 2010)
     
  • The peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs publishes a Fund staff-written article "Bridging Troubled Waters: Family Caregivers, Transitions, and Long-Term Care," which focuses on the Fund's work on family caregiving and offers recommendations. (January 2010)
     
  • In a New York Nonprofit Press article outlining relief provided by the federal extension of the COBRA health insurance subsidy program to assist laid-off workers, Peter Newell, co-director of the Fund's Health Insurance Project is quoted: "Taken together, these changes are intended to effect a seamless extension of COBRA subsidies from nine to 15 months and to include people who continue to lose jobs up through the end of February.”  (December 23, 2009) 
  • In a New America Media article about efforts in California to make patients' discharges from hospital to home safer, Carol Levine is quoted: "Successful programs for assuring a smooth transition from hospital to home must involve the patient's family caregivers." (December 21, 2009)
     
  • New York Social Diary covers the Fund's 2009 Gala in a photo montage, featuring honorees James and Merryl Tisch, longtime health care leaders in New York; Jackie Harris Hochberg, daughter of the honoree J. Ira Harris, founder of the Harris Obesity Prevention Effort (HOPE) at the NYU Langone Medical Center; and Lee H. Perlman, president of GNYHA Ventures, Inc.; for their respective contributions to improving health care in New York. (November 2009)
     
  • Highlights of a keynote speech by Jim Tallon at Binghamton University's Symposium on Health Care Management and Policy were featured in Inside Binghamton University. (October 22, 2009)
     
  • In a New York 1 News story on immigrants and national health reform, Jim Tallon says, "We want everybody when they are really in need of emergency care to get it.  That's our fundamental standard as a society, and it's also beneficial to each one of us to have that kind of standard." (October 14, 2009)
     
  • A New York Times "New Old Age" blog entry, "When the Neighborhood is the Retirement Village," asks why services can't be brought to seniors living in the community, and then answers, with the help of the Fund's director of the Aging In Place Initiative, Fredda Vladeck, that they in fact can and do--through NORC supportive service programs--with the national movement led by New York.. (September 25, 2009)
     
  • In response to a USA Today article about the increasing number of discharged patients who are returning to the Emergency Department, Carol Levine penned a letter to the editor underscoring the critical role family caregivers can play in reducing unnecessary readmissions if they can be trained more effectively. (September 11-13,2009)
     
  •  In the article "Health Exchange on a Small Scale Sees Record Growth," published by HealthLeaders InterStudy, Peter Newell concludes, "I think individuals across the United States are going to be buying [health insurance] through exchanges within a few years..." (Summer 2009) 
     
  • Governing magazine publishes an article "Seniors and the City" that highlights the role of Fredda Vladeck in establishing the first NORC program, as well as her views on the future of NORC programs. (June 2009)
  • Nursing Spectrum publishes an article "Nurse-Developed Protocols Decrease MRSA Rates"  that references the work of the Fund and Greater New York Hospital Association in reducing Mount Sinai's central-line infections. (May 29, 2009)
  • A New York Times column "When the Hospital Says So Long"  summarizes advice from experts, including Ariella Peist of the Fund's Families and Health Care Project, about planning for hospital discharges. The column concludes that Next Step in Care is "one of the best" websites that offers resources about discharge planning. (May 13, 2009)
  • Director of the Fund's Families and Health Care Project Carol Levine's letter to the editor of The New York Times, on the importance of family caregivers in helping prevent avoidable rehospitalizations, is published. (April 25, 2009)