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As city leaders grapple with the latest attempt to help homeless New Yorkers with serious mental illness, it’s worth looking back on an earlier initiative to care for some of the city’s most vulnerable citizens. United Hospital Fund helped establish one of the first homeless healthcare organizations in the country in 1985.
Dr. Eric Schneider, one of the nation's leading health care researchers, was the featured speaker at the January 19, 2023 meeting at United Hospital Fund’s Quality Leaders Forum webinar
A nurse manager's project with the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program has ensured heart attack patients get diagnosed and treated as quickly as possible in a Queens emergency room.
Patients at a Manhattan hospital's outpatient clinics can save around 17 minutes each visit thanks to one doctor's project with United Hospital Fund and the Greater New York Hospital Association’s Clinical Quality Fellowship Program.
The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation renewed its support in 2023 for three innovative United Hospital Fund programs aimed at helping young children and older adults.
United Hospital Fund’s PEDS Learning Network hosted a webinar on the power of emotionally responsive relationships in early childhood development.
On December 6, United Hospital Fund president and CEO Oxiris Barbot, MD sat down with Erroll Louis on the NY1 current events show Inside City Hall to discuss NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ new policy to involuntarily hospitalize homeless New Yorkers .
A United Hospital Fund pediatric fellow's idea drives transformative change at her Long Island City clinic.
A United Hospital Fund task force focused on integrating equity in health care quality held its second meeting and has started to identify strategies that can help reduce troubling inequities.
Commonwealth Fund president David Blumenthal, MD, tells the Quality Leaders Forum that market forces have failed to keep health care costs under control,
A potential fix for the “tragedy of the commons” facing mental health and social service agencies was the focus of the keynote address by Jeffrey Brenner, MD, at the 33rd Annual Symposium on Health Care Services in New York: Research and Practice.
