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.
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Improving Health Care for Every New Yorker
Click here to watch a video that shows how United Hospital Fund works to improve health care for every New Yorker.
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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In New Report, NYC Hospitals Share Approaches to Improve Health Care Quality and Health Equity
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Practical Approaches to Centering Equity in Health Care Quality: Shared Lessons from New York City’s Hospital Systems
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UHF Releases Toolkit to Address the Growing Need for Early Literacy Skills in Children
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One Book at a Time: The Milstein Toolkit to Promote Early Childhood Literacy in Primary Care Settings
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Celebration of Innovation, Leadership, and Commitment Kicks Off Health Equity Fellowship
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Showing Up for One Another—at the Voting Booth and Beyond
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