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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 ...

Statement from United Hospital Fund A note from Tony Shih condemning racism and injustice. Dear Friends of United Hospital Fund, Words cannot describe the feelings of rage, pain, and sadness that many of us feel. It is not only George ...

Report Proposes Extra Health Insurance Subsidies for New Yorkers with Student Loans New York State could help out this year’s pandemic-challenged graduates by enacting a tax credit for health insurance premiums tied to student debt payments. Helping Debt-Laden Graduates ...

UHF Report Finds 4,200 Children in NYS Have Lost a Parent to COVID-19 Between March and July 2020 4,200 children in New York State lost a parent to COVID-19 and 325,000 children were pushed into or near ...

UHF Health Care Services Symposium Focuses on Inequities During Pandemic The glaring racial and economic inequities in the U.S. health care system, magnified by the coronavirus pandemic, were the main topics of the 31st Annual Symposium on Health Care ...

National Quality Leader Margaret O’Kane Addresses Racial Inequities at Quality Leaders Forum Margaret O’Kane, president and founder of the National Committee for Quality Assurance. addressed health inequities as the featured speaker at UHF’s third Quality Leaders Forum ...

As 2018 Open Enrollment Begins, Trump Administration Adds New Challenges for New York's Individual Market Preliminary analysis of how New York would be affected by recent Trump administration actions on the Affordable Care Act, particularly the halt in cost-sharing reduction ...

The Clinical Quality Fellowship Program: Developing Clinical Quality Leadership in the Greater New York Region The Institute of Medicine has noted that a key factor underlying patient safety problems in the United States is a paucity of quality and safety ...

I Can Take Care of Myself!: Patients' Refusals of Home Health Care Services A summary of the discussion and findings of a December 2016 roundtable, co-sponsored by UHF and the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation, on refusals of ...

Caring for Your Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC): A Guide for Patients and Family Caregivers With growing numbers of hospitalized patients being sent home with central lines in place, safely maintaining these common home care devices often falls to home ...

Building a More Effective Health Care System for Every New Yorker: UHF's 2016 Annual Report This year's annual report focuses on how UHF's initiatives are addressing the challenges of a changing health care landscape and having a real impact on ...

A Strategy for Expanding and Improving the Impact of the Medical Home Across New York City A strategic plan for New York City to adopt the medical home model, which improves health care quality, improves patients' experience of care, and ...

You Get What You Pay for: Measuring Quality in Value-Based Payment for Children's Health Care Examining the quality measures and outcomes that could be used in value-based payment arrangements for children's health care in New York: how value for children ...

A New Arena for Reducing Antibiotic Misuse: Outpatient Care Health Affairs Blog reports on United Hospital Fund's new Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative. United Hospital Fund's Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative-an effort to improve antibiotic prescribing practices, notable for its focus on ...

Navigating the New York State Value-Based Payment Roadmap A guide distilling and explaining the New York State Roadmap for Medicaid Payment Reform, which lays out New York's ambitious goals of moving toward value-based payment from a fee-for-service model. See the ...

Redesigning Children's Behavioral Health Services in New York's Medicaid Program This report gives an overview of the complex structure of New York Medicaid's current services for children needing behavioral health services, reviews the State's planned approach to reforming this system ...

Meeting Consumers Where They Are: Patient Engagement in New York's Evolving Commercial Insurance Market With the number of uninsured rapidly dropping under the ACA, the focus is shifting to other goals-improving quality, the patient experience with care, and controlling costs ...

After the Reinsurance Is Gone: A New Challenge for New York's Individual Market A Big Picture snapshot report that examines the federal Transitional Reinsurance Program and what might provide premium-stabilizing effects after the program expires in 2016. The Transitional Reinsurance ...

Difficult Decisions About Post-Acute Care and Why They Matter First in a series of reports examining the challenges faced by patients and their families when arranging continued care after a hospital stay. Click here to access the press release. Each ...

Patient-Centered Medical Homes in New York, 2017 Update An update on the most recent progress made in implementing medical homes statewide, identifying trends and providing context on relevant changes in policy, changes in accreditation process, and various obstacles to adoption ...

Home Alone: Family Caregivers Providing Complex Chronic Care Results from a survey of family caregivers to determine what medical/nursing tasks they perform. Includes recommendations on encouraging health care professionals and providers to reassess the way they interact with caregivers ...

Evaluation of a Continuum-Based Behavioral Health Integration Framework Among Small Primary Care Practices in New York State A framework to help primary care practices integrate behavioral health screening and treatment into health care delivery. The related press release can be ...

Complex Construction: A Framework for Building Clinical-Community Partnerships to Address Social Determinants of Health A UHF framework designed to help primary care providers screen their patients for social determinants of health and partner with community-based organizations that can respond to ...

National Landscape of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship and Strategies for Engaging Prescribers on Data Findings Webinar presentation on antibiotic stewardship. UHF hosted a webinar , National Landscape of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship and Strategies for Engaging Prescribers on Data Findings, on September 22 ...

A Model for Improving and Assessing Outpatient Stewardship Initiatives for Acute Respiratory Infections Results from an observational study evaluating the effectiveness of antibiotic stewardship interventions in New York City outpatient settings. Many hospitals have established inpatient antibiotic stewardship programs, but ...

Partnerships for Early Childhood Development: Year 2 Update PECD is a grant program and learning collaborative that helps child-serving primary care practices screen for and address unmet social needs through strong clinical-community partnerships. This report summarizes what was learned in ...

Grim Times and Health Insurance: Maintaining Coverage During the Pandemic A consumer guide with practical advice on how New Yorkers can replace lost health coverage or find a new health plan during these perilous times. Available in English, Spanish, Simplified ...

The Road Forward: Framework for a Population Health Approach to Health and Housing Partnerships A framework for developing community-wide partnerships between health care, housing, homeless services providers, and policymakers to help address New York City’s housing and homelessness crisis ...

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 ...

COVID-19 Ripple Effect: The Impact of COVID-19 on Children in New York State A new analysis estimates that COVID-19 has led to severe, long-lasting, and racially disparate repercussions on children under age 18 in New York State. The associated press ...

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 ...

Health Care's Circular Journey A look back over the past decades shows tremendous progress—and a would-be retreat that threatens the health care of millions. As I prepare to leave United Hospital Fund after 24 years, it's instructive to look ...

Initiative to Invest in Children Key to State's Prosperity Gov. Cuomo's “First 1,000 Days of Life Initiative” is good news for New York's children and families, write UHF President Anthony Shih, MD, and Patricia S. Levinson Fellow Suzanne Brundage ...

Getting Ready for Medicare's New ID Cards: What Providers and Beneficiaries Need to Know and Do New Medicare ID cards, meant to reduce identity theft, require updates to providers' office systems—and some guidance and reassurance for patients. Sometime in ...

UHF’s Suzanne Brundage Testifies About Impact of Opioid Epidemic on Children before NYS Senate Task Force Suzanne Brundage, director of UHF's Children's Health Initiative, testified before a Joint New York State Senate Task Force on Opioids on the impact ...

Payer Actions Can Help Sustain Primary Care During and After COVID-19 A commentary highlighting the pressures on small primary care practices that disproportionately serve some of New York’s poorest neighborhoods, and how payer actions can help sustain them. Disclaimer ...

COVID-19 Deepens Existing Health Disparities COVID-19 is taking a greater toll on disadvantaged New Yorkers who were already at enormous risk to any interruption of work, income, and health. Expanding health care coverage and investing in social safety-net programs are ...

A Post-COVID-19 Primary Care Agenda: First Steps The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vital importance, and the vulnerability, of primary care. This commentary suggests several actions to restore primary care and transform it in ways that will meet new demands ...

COVID-19 Pandemic Perspectives: Will COVID-19 Change the Way We Look at Mental Health and Substance Misuse? At this moment of crisis, the health care system is becoming more responsive to the biopsychosocial needs of essential workers, very ill patients, and ...

Struggling in the Time of COVID: Viewing the Pandemic Through the Eyes of a Frontline Health Care Worker Danyelle DiScala, a New York City social worker and member of 1199 SEIU, looks at important day-to-day issues facing many Americans during ...

Health Insurance Coverage in New York, 2009 This wide-ranging analysis of New York’s health insurance coverage landscape in 2008-09 presents data in two parts: a “snapshot” highlighting coverage patterns; and a “chartbook” of detailed tables. Prepared by authors from ...

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