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Access, Coverage, and Primary Care Even with arguably the most robust safety net for health insurance coverage and access in the country—along with some of the country’s largest health systems—too many New Yorkers still struggle to obtain ...

Quality and Efficiency in Brooklyn Dramatic changes in quality of care and patient safety at The Brooklyn Hospital Center are hard to overstate. The hospital used to have hundreds of hospital-acquired infections each year—now it has almost none. Avoidable ...

GivingTuesday 2021 Thanksgiving message from Tony Shih 0002F5BE-1640-40F5-9D81-D091B6986488 Created with sketchtool. Wishing good health to you and to our community All of us at United Hospital Fund wish you a very happy Thanksgiving. This video message is to convey my ...

UHF Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative, Stage II While much effort on the critical issue of antibiotic resistance focuses on the inpatient setting, UHF'​s Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative Stage I engaged hospital-owned outpatient practices in analyzing prescribing practices and developing ...

Greater New York Hospital Association Two To increase provider capacity and enhance the quality of care within health systems across the greater New York region by building quality improvement leadership and by supporting hospitals and nursing homes in developing antibiotic ...

Data & Society Research Institute To generate an overview of New York-based activity to develop relevant apps, clinical decision tools, connected devices, and other assistive digital health technology for patients with multiple chronic conditions, and to create a framework for ...

Montefiore Medical Center To support integration of behavioral health care services into small to medium-sized primary care practices by developing an implementation framework and guide to evidence-based models—especially timely as Performing Provider Systems, under New York's Delivery System Reform ...

Community Service Society of New York To explore policy options for affordable health insurance coverage for undocumented immigrants, and to discuss those options in a report that will be presented to policymakers and key stakeholders. While health insurance coverage expansions ...

Greater New York Hospital Association Four To enhance the long-standing quality improvement infrastructure collaboratively led by the United Hospital Fund and Greater New York Hospital Association. In 2005, the Fund and the Greater New York Hospital Association formed a partnership ...

Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health To develop a plan using social media to extend its community health interventions to a broader, more diverse audience of minority/immigrant communities in Brooklyn. Social media has created a new platform for private ...

PHI To pilot test home care aides' use of telehealth technology to improve patient care and enhance aides' participation on the care team. PHI will coordinate a pilot and evaluation of the use of telehealth technology by home care aides ...

The Institute for Family Health Two To improve health outcomes and reduce costs by developing and pilot-testing a single model of care coordination. Like many providers, the Institute provides care coordination services through a number of programs that target special ...

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 ...

United Hospital Fund Online Guide Helps Family Caregivers Evaluate New Technologies A new online guide presents questions family caregivers should consider when deciding whether to buy an electronic product or service to assist with the care of their family member ...

United Hospital Fund Report Looks Beyond the Sunset of a Health Care Reinsurance Program That Is Helping Keep Individual Rates More Affordable A UHF snapshot report focuses on the Transitional Reinsurance Program, which was created by a provision of the ...

New Toolkit Aims to Prevent Dangerous Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections in the Home Care Setting A new toolkit offers practical approaches and tools for home care professionals and hospital acute care providers to systematically assess the risks for and reduce ...

United Hospital Fund Report Finds Tools to Address Affordability Challenges from Temporary Health Insurance Program A new United Hospital Fund report examines New York's little-known Advanced Premium Tax Credit Premium Program, a temporary program that made health insurance exchange coverage ...

Three Prominent Leaders Recognized by United Hospital Fund for Their Work to Improve Health and Health Care The 2016 United Hospital Fund Gala was held on Monday, September 26. United Hospital Fund paid tribute to Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, Scott B ...

United Hospital Fund Awards $662,642 in Grants to Improve Health Care Services in New York UHF announced seven grants, totaling $662,242, for projects to build a more effective health care system for every New Yorker. United Hospital Fund ...

United Hospital Fund Releases Two Guides to Help Patients, Family Caregivers Understand What to Expect During Transition from Hospital to Home Care New York State's 2.6 million unpaid family caregivers, like their 40 million counterparts across the United States ...

United Hospital Fund Honors 31 Health Care Trustees United Hospital Fund (UHF) presented Distinguished Trustee Awards to 31 trustees from New York metropolitan area hospitals and health care organizations at a luncheon today at Cipriani 42nd Street. The honorees were ...

Congressional "Repeal and Replace" Health Plan Ill-Suited and Destructive for New York The American Health Care Act (AHCA), approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and currently under consideration by the U.S. Senate, would undermine the dramatic insurance ...

Learning Collaborative: How Do We Prioritize Patients' Goals? The second meeting of participants in a learning collaborative that is part of the Patient-Reported Outcomes in Primary Care–New York (PROPC–NY) initiative took place at United Hospital Fund on June ...

United Hospital Fund Receives Grant from New York State Health Foundation to Study Ways to Improve Discharge Planning by Improving Patient and Family Communications UHF was awarded a grant of $219,606 by the New York State Health Foundation to ...

New York Small Group Insurance Market Showing Signs of Distress; Trump Proposals Could Make Things Worse Enrollment in New York State's small group insurance market has declined sharply since 2007 and average premiums and were the second highest in the ...

Bolstering Small-Practice "Medical Home" Capabilities Small independent primary care providers are a vital lifeline for New Yorkers, but these practices are at risk of falling behind in the race toward medical home recognition and value-based purchasing. A UHF partnership with ...

UHF Welcomes New Partner, Junto Health United Hospital Fund and health care technology consortium Junto Health are partnering to share information and expertise that will benefit both organizations. United Hospital Fund and health care technology consortium Junto Health are partnering ...

Child Health Project Highlights Value of Partnership First-year results show the promise of UHF's Partnerships for Early Childhood Development model. After a year of innovative collaborations to address the outsize impact of social and economic forces on children's life-long health ...

UHF and New York State Partner to Benefit Youngest Children UHF plays a lead role in guiding development of a ten-point action plan for New York State's First 1,000 Days on Medicaid initiative. The evidence is compelling: investing in ...

Small Primary Care Practices that Offer Behavioral Health Services Successfully Identifying Patients at Risk of Depression Small primary care practices participating in a grant-funded project that is helping them bring behavioral health services into their practices say they are successfully ...

New Report Identifies NYC Neighborhoods Where Medicaid Might Better Support Members' Health by Addressing Housing Insecurity A UHF report identifies NYC neighborhoods where Medicaid might improve access to health care by addressing the housing needs. NEW YORK, NEW YORK July ...

Quietly, Pioneering UHF Work Helps Ensure Access to Care Given the delicate one-step-forward/one-back dance on health insurance coverage and access to care, the work of UHF's Health Insurance Project and Medicaid Institute is playing an important role in supporting ...

Medicaid in New York: Fostering Collaboration to Improve Health NYS Medicaid Director Donna Frescatore discssues the success of payment reform at UHF's 2018 Medicaid Conference. New York State's Medicaid program is in the midst of a radical re-engineering, as it ...

UHF Report Outlines Changing Roles for Providers and Health Plans under Full-Risk Capitation Payment Approaches This UHF report examines the shifting roles of providers and payers related to the adoption of full-risk capitation. Presenting opportunities and challenges for providers, health ...

Reflections on a Decade of Quality Improvement Videos celebrate 10 years of CQFP UHF and Greater New York Hospital Association are proud to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program (CQFP), a unique opportunity for clinicians to ...

Afya Foundation UHF awards a Special Tribute to Afya Foundation and its founder Danielle Butin for vital assistance to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and responses to crises worldwide. Special Tribute United Hospital Fund periodically recognizes organizations ...

Chad Shearer Named to Advisory Board of NJ Medicaid Center Chad Shearer, VP of policy for UHF, was named to the advisory board of a newly created Medicaid Policy Center in New Jersey. Chad Shearer, UHF vice-president for policy and ...

UHF Names Pooja Kothari as 2019 Patricia S. Levinson Fellow Pooja Kothari, RN, MPH, program manager in UHF’s Quality Institute, is named the 2019 Patricia S. Levinson fellow. Fellowship established to advance UHF's work improving health for vulnerable populations ...

First Annual Tribute to Excellence in Health Care Honors 57 Quality Improvement Leaders at 51 New York Area Institutions United Hospital Fund honors 57 extraordinary quality improvement leaders at 51 hospitals and long-term care facilities at its Tribute to Excellence ...

United Hospital Fund Names Chad Shearer Senior Vice President for Policy and Program United Hospital Fund has named Chad Senior Vice President for Policy and Program. NEW YORK, NY—July 2, 2019 — United Hospital Fund announced today that Chad Shearer ...

Medicaid in New York: UHF Conference Looks Toward the Future New York State's innovative set of Medicaid delivery system reforms, launched five years ago and built around a shift to value-based payments, has reduced both preventable hospitalizations and their associated ...

Despite Better-than-Expected Progress in Expanding Health Coverage, New York State Faces Obstacles in Signing up Remaining 1.1 Million Uninsured A new HealthWatch brief warns that New York State faces a number of potential obstacles as the next health insurance ...

UHF Annual Gala Honored Four Exceptional New Yorkers for Helping Create a More Effective Health System UHF paid tribute on four exceptional New Yorkers at its annual gala for their efforts to improve health and health care. At an event ...

12th Class of Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Completes First Retreat UHF and Greater New York Hospital Association launched the new class of 30 Clinical Quality Fellows on a 15-month program focused on improving quality and patient safety. For the 12th ...

Information to Assist Parents and Pediatric Providers during COVID-19 Outbreak Resources for parents and providers during the COVID-19 outbreak Ensuring children's safety and well-being during uncertain and chaotic times is critically important. To aid parents and pediatric and social service ...