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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 ...

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 ...

United Hospital Fund Names Two New Vice Presidents, New Controller, Other Staff Changes UHF announced that Quincy McLain, CPA will be named vice president, chief financial officer, and treasurer, replacing Sheila Abrams, CPA, current senior vice president for administration and ...

UHF Report Profiles Five Innovative Service Providers Offering Integrated Family Care A new United Hospital Fund profiles five service providers in New York, New Hampshire, and Michigan that have embraced the Integrated Family Care model. Pandemic Reveals Need for New ...

UHF Names Oxiris Barbot, MD, and Neera Chaudhary to Board of Directors 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 ...

UHF Annual Fall Gala Goes Virtual with Tributes to Health Care Leaders and Health Care Workforce 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 ...

Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Graduates 12th Class of Fellows 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. The 29 mid-career health professionals ...

UHF Learning Collaborative Addresses Medication Overload in Nursing Homes UHF's Polypharmacy Learning Collaborative held its second learning session with the members to learn from each other’s experiences in managing their residents’ medications. When elderly patients are transferred from a ...

UHF Annual Gala, in Person for First Time Since the Pandemic, Honors Four Health Care Leaders UHF's annual fall Gala was held in person today for the first time since 2019 and honored four exceptional New York-area leaders. Blackstone Chief ...

In Memoriam: Robert A. Levinson United Hospital Fund mourns the loss of Bob Levinson, a wonderfully generous benefactor and long-time treasured friend, who died on September 22nd at the age of 97. United Hospital Fund mourns the loss of Bob ...

UHF/GNYHA Research Symposium Tackles a “Tragedy of the Commons” in Mental Health and Social Services A potential fix for the “tragedy of the commons” facing mental health and social service agencies was the focus of the keynote address by ...

Parents Have the Power: UHF Webinar Highlights Benefits of Emotionally Responsive Relationships United Hospital Fund’s PEDS Learning Network hosted a webinar on the power of emotionally responsive relationships in early childhood development. In the earliest days of life, adverse ...

National Analysis Reveals Devastating Ripple Effect of Gun Violence on Communities in New York and Across the United States A national analysis by United Hospital Fund, produced in a collaboration with Boston Consulting Group. details the ripple effect of gun ...

UHF names Peter Newell, Director of Health Insurance Project, as Patricia S. Levinson Fellow United Hospital Fund announced today that it has selected Peter Newell, director of its Health Insurance Project, as its 2023 Patricia S. Levinson Fellow. NEW YORK ...

Oxiris Barbot, MD, Discusses Pandemic, Health Disparities, and UHF on Sirius XM’s Doctor Radio On April 14, 2023, Doctor Radio Reports, a Sirius XM program sponsored by NYU Langone Health, featured an interview with United Hospital Fund president and ...

UHF Task Force Examines Barriers to Equitable Care The third meeting of UHF’s Quality and Equity Task Force focused on identifing people who experience differential health outcomes as well as the reasons for these disparities. For health care systems ...

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 ...