Improving Health Care for Every New Yorker

Featured Work

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.

UHF Fellow Helps Close Breastfeeding Equity Gap

PEDS Learning Network Fellow Karina Vattana, MD, is opening a free drop-in breast/chest feeding support group known as “Baby Café" at her clinic. The cafe will focus on reaching minority and diverse families.

Reducing the Risk of Medication Overload

A UHF report details promising results of a partnership with six nonprofit, New York-area skilled nursing homes that focused on safe “deprescribing”—decreasing the use of potentially inappropriate medications.

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

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