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.
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Improving Health Care for Every New Yorker
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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.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at UHF
Improving equity in our work and in our workplace
United Hospital Fund is committed to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Different backgrounds and points of view make for a more successful organization, and we aspire to reflect and include the diversity of the communities we serve.
Click here to read a personal reflection on DEI best practices by Dora Mendez, UHF’s vice president of human resources and chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer.
UHF at Work
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National Analysis Reveals Growing Adolescent Behavioral Health Crisis, Rising Unmet Need—and the Ripple Effects on Education, Family Economics, Health, and Productivity
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The Ripple Effects of the Adolescent Behavioral Health Crisis: Recent Trends and Impacts on American Adolescents, Families, and Society
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Quality Leaders Forum Examines Ending Racism in Clinical Algorithms
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Polypharmacy Learning Collaborative: Notable Success in Second Year
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The Lasting Legacy of UHF’s Women’s Division
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Women In UHF History: The Early Years
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