Recent News, Commentary & Feature Stories
Carol Levine: The Top Ten Things Caregivers Don't Want to Hear….
And a Few Things They Do
Carol Levine, Director of the Fund's Families and Health Care Project, presents a collection of the kinds of unsolicited advice, unwelcome criticism, and undeserved praise that she and other caregivers receive all too often.
United Hospital Fund Announces Guides for Family Caregivers and Health Care Providers to Improve Patient Care
To improve the working relationship between family caregivers and health care providers, the United Hospital Fund has launched the Next Step in Care website: www.nextstepincare.org.
Carol Levine: All in the Family: Children as Home Health Aides
This essay addresses issues that should be addressed to help America's chilc caregivers.
New Collaborative Focuses on Clinical Leadership
Building upon the success of the United Hospital Fund and Greater New York Hospital Association collaborative model, the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program is designed to develop new clinical talent to lead quality improvement initiatives and prepare the next generation of quality leaders.
Carol Levine: The Missing Link in Chronic Care Coordination
This essay argues that patients and family caregivers should expect to be involved in the post-hospital plan and to have all the information, education, and support they need to make it work.
Jim Tallon: A Good Beginning
As the new Administration's first 100 days come under review, Fund President Jim Tallon points to two critical issues as rallying points for a progressive health care agenda, in his latest Blueprint commentary.
Jim Tallon: Forecast for Reform: Storms Ahead
National health reform efforts pose challenges at the state level--and the danger of undermining the very progress they seek.
Carol Levine: Health Care ‘Reform’ Could Overwhelm Family Caregivers
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, observes that long-term care and the essential role of family caregivers are striking omissions from current discussions of health reform. She writes, “As long as family caregiving is described and measured as ‘informal’ domestic chores, the traditional dismissive view of women’s work, it will not be appropriately valued.”
Jim Tallon: The Fund's Role in Health Care Reform
In his annual report essay, Fund President Jim Tallon lays out the principles driving health reform, poses the three major issues for Congress, and discusses the implications for New York, as well as outlining the Fund's unique role in the months ahead.
Jim Tallon: Crisis, Opportunity, A Bit of Both
New York’s very real budget crisis and the likelihood of national health reform legislation create the climate for the greatest potential improvement in the American health care system in generations. In this "A Word with Jim" commentary originally published in Blueprint, Fund President Jim Tallon goes beyond the headlines to uncover significant opportunities—and essential elements—for success in rebuilding health care within our troubled economy.
Carol Levine: The Seattle ‘God Committee’
Written by Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, this commentary, shedding light on the "death panels" rumored to be part of national health care reform, was originally published by the Health Affairs Blog on November 30, 2009.
Carol Levine: The Family Health Care Decisions Act
The Family Health Care Decisions Act , signed into law on March 16, 2010, has a simple purpose—to allow family members to make end-of-life health care decisions when the patient has not signed a health care proxy or advance directive. But its specific provisions, which go into effect on June 1, are complex.
Jim Tallon: The "Wait-and-See" Majority
Debate on the health reform law continues, and the challenge is not to stifle it but to focus on expectations and to move forward now on plans for implementation, better coordination, regionalization.
Carol Levine: "I Can't Hear You—There's a Rattle in the Room"
Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, discusses medicine's special language or "rattle"—filled with terms, abbreviations, and acronyms—that has special meaning to practitioners but is often meaningless, confusing, or easily misinterpreted by patients and family caregivers.
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