Grants | United Hospital Fund

Feb. 26, 2021 | $200,000
Transitions from Skilled Nursing Facility to Home: Improving Quality and Patient Family Experience (Year 2)
In the second year of this learning collaborative for skilled nursing facilities, the focus will be on implementing interventions that prioritize the needs and preferences of patients and caregivers and address patient, family, and staff communication about discharge planning as well as the transition home, care coordination, patient and caregiver education, and medication management.
Oct. 2, 2020 | $50,000
Priorities for COVID-19 Vaccine Access: Gathering Community Input Through Public Deliberation
To develop and pilot a template of a virtual public deliberation that can be used by local communities to advise decision-makers with respect to community-informed preferences for accessing vaccines for COVID-19.
April 1, 2020 | 200,000
Transitions from Skilled Nursing Facility to Home: Improving Quality and Patient Family Experience
To improve the quality of patient care transitions from skilled nursing facilities to home or community-based settings through a learning collaborative that engages eight facilities in developing expertise in designing transition plans that better align with the needs of older, vulnerable patients and their family caregivers.
Nov. 14, 2019 | $125,000
Greater New York Hospital Association
To build provider capacity and quality of care through joint GNYHA/UHF activities aimed at building clinical leadership capacity in quality improvement through Year 12 of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program; and improving patient access to ambulatory specialty care by creating a specialty access working group for member hospitals to jointly address challenges around long wait-times for appointments.
Nov. 14, 2019 | 795,088
Partnerships for Early Childhood Development, Phase III
In the third and final phase of the program, eight pediatric providers and their community partners will continue their partnerships to screen and refer families to needed community supports, and an initiative-wide evaluation will seek to understand whether the PECD initiative has had an positive impact on the lives of children and families.
Sept. 21, 2018 | $125,000
Greater New York Hospital Association
To build provider capacity and quality of care through joint GNYHA/UHF activities aimed at enhancing quality improvement training for health care professionals through the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program; supporting hospitals and health systems in incorporating high reliability principles and practices; and to determine the feasibility of expanding the concepts of the CQFP program to nursing homes.
July 9, 2018 | 709,122
Partnerships for Early Childhood Development, Phase II
Building on the first phase of the Partnerships for Early Childhood Development, eight pediatric providers and their community partners will work to further enhance their abilities to identify and address the social determinants of health that have profound impact on the healthy development of young children, with a particular focus on "closing the referral loop" between providers and partnering community-based social services agencies.
April 4, 2018 | 100,000
Family Health Centers at NYU Langone
To pilot test, evaluate, and recommend modifications to a screening, referral, and feedback process that connects patients that screen positive for one or more social needs to appropriate community-based organizations for social support services.
Feb. 21, 2018 | 119,107
Community Healthcare Network
To develop and vet a process for creating effective partnerships between primary care practices and community-based organizations, this project will facilitate the development of a screening, referral, and feedback process model that encourages effective follow-up between primary care providers and selected CBOs.
Feb. 21, 2018 | 100,000
Public Agenda
To gain insight into parents’ expectations and receptivity to screening for social determinants of health in pediatric primary care, particularly those that address main risks and protective factors that influence child development (including toxic stress, food insecurity, and parenting strategies).
Oct. 18, 2017 | 125,000
Greater New York Hospital Association
To build provider capacity and enhance the quality of care within health systems across the greater New York region through GNYHA/UHF activities aimed at: bolstering clinical quality improvement leadership through the continuation and expansion of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program; providing an opportunity for senior leadership of health care organizations to learn about “high–reliability” principles and implement them in their organizations.
Oct. 1, 2017 | 125,000
Corporation for Supportive Housing
To increase the integration of health and housing in New York by scaling The Bronx Frequent Users of Hospital Systems (Bronx FUSE) Initiative, which helps communities identify and engage super utilizers of public systems and place them into supportive housing to break the cycle of repeated use of costly crisis health services, shelters, and the criminal justice system. This grant will support the creation of a roadmap for establishing health plan and housing partnerships and cross-systems data-sharing to facilitate replication of the FUSE model across the City and State.

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