UHF News

UHF received three grants from The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation totaling $1.15 million in support of three innovative programs aimed at helping young children and older adults.

A report by UHF and Boston Consulting Group estimates the number of people in New York State experiencing food insecurity increased by 36 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic, and more than one in eight New Yorkers are facing hunger this December.

The American Medical Association’s strategic plan for improving health equity was the focus of the keynote address by Aletha Maybank, MD, AMA Senior VP and Chief Health Equity Officer, at the 32nd Annual Symposium on Health Care Services: Research and Practice.

Thirty mid-career health professionals that made up the 12th class of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program (CQFP) graduated in a virtual ceremony on October 7, 2021.

A UHF report reveals that a majority of surveyed patients who were sent home after a short stay in a skilled nursing facility said they received and understood discharge instructions, but still reported some substantial gaps in preparation and care coordination.

United Hospital Fund has selected Peter Newell, director of its Health Insurance Project, as the new Patricia S. Levinson Fellow.

UHF annual fall Gala honored two exceptional New York-area leaders, designer Kenneth Cole and food activist Karen Washington, along with the New York region’s extraordinary health care workforce.

A promising downtrend in opioid-related deaths that started in 2017 was upended during the pandemic, and it is now likely that some 5.3 million children in the United States will be adversely affect by the opioid epidemic by 2030, according to a commentary published today by UHF.

United Hospital Fund elected two new directors to its Board: Oxiris Barbot, MD, former commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene of the City of New York, and Neera Chaudhary, North American president of Ketchum Inc.

Medicaid plans can improve infant health and reduce low birthweight in New York State by leveraging the federally funded WIC program to reduce food insecurity, according to a UHF report.

Joan Guzik, UHF's current director of quality improvement, will be named director of quality and efficiency effective September 3, succeeding Lynn Rogut, current director of quality and team lead for quality and efficiency, who is retiring.