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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 ...

New York University School of Medicine To foster the identification of Emergency Department patients at significant risk for future homelessness, and develop effective preventive interventions. To foster the identification of Emergency Department patients at significant risk for future homelessness, and ...

Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy To help ensure that the unique health needs of children are considered in New York's health care reform efforts, by assessing the impact on child health of various approaches to value-based payment, and disseminating ...

Community Service Society of New York Two To address the challenge of giving undocumented immigrants access to health insurance, by completing modeling and analytic work on four specific policy options. To address the challenge of giving undocumented immigrants access to ...

New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation To identify redesign options for the Health and Hospitals Corporation's (HHC's) Financial Assistance Program—HHC Options—to improve and expand access to care for uninsured populations and to align the program design with ...

New York Methodist Hospital To improve patient engagement in the hospital's Web-based patient portal through volunteer-led promotion and education activities. MyNYM is New York Methodist Hospital's Web-based patient portal, which provides patients with vital information about their medical history and ...

New York City AIDS Fund To help HIV/AIDS service organizations adjust to significant Federal and State changes in financing and service delivery by providing intensive technical assistance through a learning collaborative. In the past year, the implementation of the ...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center To develop a volunteer program to support family caregivers of individuals with serious mental illness. For this new component of Lincoln's Integrated Collaborative Care and Wellness Program, 15 volunteers will be recruited to facilitate ...

Dr. Anne-Marie Audet Joins United Hospital Fund as Vice President Anne-Marie J. Audet has joined the United Hospital Fund as vice president to help shape and lead its new Quality Institute. Anne-Marie J. Audet, M.D., M.Sc., has joined ...

Keeping Our Eyes on Children Pediatric primary care can play a significant role in children's functioning later in life. How to structure practices, payment policies, workforce, and training to support that goal is a critical question. Long before I had ...

United Hospital Fund Report Outlines Four Crucial Implementation Challenges to Behavioral Health Reform to Better Serve Children in New York's Medicaid Program A new United Hospital Fund report highlights four implementation challenges that must be solved as part of a ...

Better Partnerships for Better Health For a forthright exchange and true partnership with their clients' health care providers, community-based organizations have to become targeted and systematic in how they serve their clients, and be able to demonstrate that. Common goals ...

Health Care 2021 A New Golden Age? The potential exists for a “golden age” of New York health care—if a number of essential elements are in place. What will New York's health care system look like in 2021? What ...

Jim Tallon Announces Plan to Step Down as President of United Hospital Fund in Second Half of 2017 Jim Tallon has announced that he plans to step down as president of United Hospital Fund in the second half of 2017 ...

Report Presents Framework for a Value-Based Payment Strategy for Children's Health Care in New York A new report issued jointly by United Hospital Fund and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy presents potential value-based payment models for children's health ...

Demystifying the Language of Health Care and Social Services This commentary by Carol Levine was originally published on Aging Today's blog. The following commentary, written by Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, was originally published on ...

New UHF Report Charts Health Insurance Market Changes in First Year of Full Implementation of the Affordable Care Act An overview of New York's insurance markets, analyzing enrollment and financial data across health plans and lines of business to create ...

Home Health Care Refusals: Bridging the Communications Gap A roundtable sponsored by UHF and the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation examines the reasons some people refuse follow-up home care services. Most health care providers would agree that acute ...

Suzanne Brundage Named First Patricia S. Levinson Fellow at United Hospital Fund Suzanne Brundage, program director of the Children's Health Initiative at United Hospital Fund, has been selected as UHF's first Patricia S. Levinson Fellow. The annual fellowship will advance ...

Near-Universal Children's Coverage: New York's Threatened Legacy With an uncertain future for Medicaid it is vital to reflect on the efforts behind New York's remarkable, and hard-won, rate of health insurance coverage for its children, and on the planned improvements ...

Op-Ed: Congress' Health Care Reform Fails New York's Children The potentially devastating consequences of the proposed American Health Care Act for New York's children are discussed by Suzanne Brundage, program director, Children's Health Initiative, and Patricia S. Levinson Fellow at ...

PECD Learning Collaborative: Getting to Know You Building working relationships was the challenge at the first Partnerships for Early Childhood Development learning collaborative meeting, when health care providers and community agencies, many of them strangers to each other, brainstormed on ...

Nonprofit and Nursing Leaders Elected to UHF Board United Hospital Fund (UHF) announced today that Jennifer L. Howse, PhD, and Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN, have been elected to its board of directors. Jennifer L. Howse (left) and Eileen ...

Medicaid in New York: Innovating in an Era of Uncertainty The themes of innovation and efficiency ran through UHF's annual Medicaid Conference, held July 20, 2017, at the New York Academy of Medicine and attended by more than 450 people ...

United Hospital Fund Recognizes Four New Yorkers for Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care United Hospital Fund paid tribute tonight at its annual gala to leaders in philanthropy, banking, and health care—James H. Simons, PhD, Priscilla Almodovar ...

United Hospital Fund Transfers Ownership of Model Website to NYS Office for the Aging to Help Senior-Serving Community Organizations be More Strategic and Effective United Hospital Fund has transferred its NORC Blueprint: A Guide to Community Action website to the ...

Comprehensive Review Finds Meaningful Health Care Quality Information for New York State Consumers Severely Lacking A comprehensive UHF Quality Institute report reveals that the information New York State consumers most want when making health care choices is severely lacking. NEW ...

Interest in Early Childhood Health Leads to Three Funders Working Together UHF, the Altman Foundation, and The New York Community Trust model grantmaker collaboration with their joint Partnerships for Early Childhood Development initiative. This commentary, written by Suzanne Brundage of ...

Interesting Times Unprecedented uncertainty at the federal level about health policy hs clarified the continued relevance and importance of UHF, says Tony Shih in his annual report president's message. It's an interesting time to be working in health policy. Since ...

UHF Awards $219,107 in Grants to Improve Primary Care in New York UHF awarded two grants totaling $219,107 for projects aimed at improving primary care by addressing the social determinants of health. NEW YORK, NEW YORK February 26 ...

29th Annual Symposium on Health Care Services in New York: Research and Practice-Call for Posters Abstracts of posters to be considered for presentation at the annual Research Symposium may now be submitted, with a deadline of June 22, 2018. United ...

Suzanne Brundage Named UHF's Patricia S. Levinson Fellow Suzanne Brundage, director of the Children's Health Initiative at United Hospital Fund, has been selected as UHF's Patricia S. Levinson Fellow. Suzanne Brundage, director of the Children's Health Initiative at United Hospital ...

Health Department, United Hospital Fund and Partners Release Joint Report on Small Primary Care Practices in New York City The Population Health Improvement Program (PHIP) report is intended to help small practices and their potential partners understand the economics of ...

United Hospital Fund Launches Second Phase of Early Childhood Development Initiative to Address Social and Economic Factors Affecting Children's Health UHF launched the second phase of its Partnerships for Early Childhood Development initiative to address social determinants affecting the health ...

A Two-Pronged Approach to Antibiotic Resistance UHF addresses a public health crisis on two tracks: analyzing the problem and changing practice. Overprescribing of antibiotics has become a critical public health problem in America, resulting in a sharp rise in antibiotic-resistant ...

The Top Ten Things Caregivers Don't Want to Hear... Carol Levine, Director of the Fund's Families and Health Care Project, presents a collection of the kinds of unsolicited advice, unwelcome criticism, and undeserved praise that she and other caregivers receive ...

New Report Outlines What’s at Stake in Patient Decision-Making About Post-Acute Care Under stress of illness and hospitalization, patients and family caregivers are not well-positioned to make informed decisions about post-acute care. Release Date: 11.15.2018 Contact: carnst ...

VIDEO: Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Participants on What They've Learned, Where They're Going United Hospital Fund has been collaborating since 2015 with New York-area health care organizations, the Greater New York Hospital Association, the New York State Department of Health, and ...

Tony Shih Named to “Health Care Power 50” Dr. Shih listed as one of the 50 most influential people in New York health care. United Hospital Fund congratulates president Anthony Shih MD, MPH, on being named by City & State ...

The Ripple Effect: An In-Depth Look at The Hidden Impact of The Opioid Epidemic on Children A far-reaching UHF report makes clear that the magnitude of the opioid epidemic’s impact is much greater than realized. Even if the opioid ...

Number of New York State Primary Care Providers Adopting Coordinated Care Model Soars The number of primary care providers in New York State adopting the patient-centered medical home soard by more than 35 percent between May 2017 and May 2018 ...

Blueprint Regular updates from UHF on research, grantmaking, convenings, and fundraising efforts

Clinical-Community Partnerships for Better Health: Observations from New York City's Partnerships for Early Childhood Development Initiative Observations and lessons from the first year of the learning collaborative and grant initiative called Partnerships for Early Childhood Development (PECD), which supports clinical-community ...

NYC PHIP Small Practice Project A report from the New York City Population Health Improvement Program examining a shared-services model that could help small practices serve as medical homes and succeed in value-based payment arrangements. Read the related press release ...

Child Health Plus Enrollment: The Curve Bends Back Up, Sharply Enrollment in New York State's Child Health Plus (CHP) program grew in every county of the state between 2016 and 2017, and 17% statewide. Current discussion of funding the federal ...