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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 ...

New York State Department of Health Price Methodology Workgroup: Final Recommendations Recommendations on the most effective ways to develop and present meaningful and user-friendly pricing information and resources that could support common health care decisions. New York's consumers are feeling ...

Extra Coverage Help Under the American Rescue Plan for New Yorkers Who Lost Jobs and Job-Based Insurance A HealthWatch brief examining the ways that the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act will help consumers afford premiums on lost employer-based coverage (COBRA ...

A Critical Opportunity to Support Children and Families Affected by the Opioid Crisis As summer was ending on Long Island's North Fork, six residents died of drug overdoses . The substance involved was cocaine laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. Two ...

Opportunities to Improve Infant Health Through WIC To improve enrollment in WIC and help alleviate food insecurity, look to outreach models used during the pandemic--and figure out where interventions might yield the biggest effects. In New York State, nearly 13 ...

A Year of Resolve: UHF's 2021 Annual Report The 2021 annual report highlights UHF’s activities during another year of challenge and uncertainty and offers a preview of our goals in the year ahead. The 2021 annual report highlights UHF's ...

Changing with the Times Anthony Shih, MD, reflects on the successes, challenges, and lessons learned during his tenure as president of United Hospital Fund. Anthony Shih, MD, will step down as president of United Hospital Fund after five years at ...

A Devastating Report on Teen Mental Health: Many Causes Require Many Responses Adolescence is a time of growth and discovery, but also of disappointments and uncertainty. Teenagers in today's complex world face many more challenges than were common for American ...

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UHF Gala UHF's Annual Gala Supporting UHF's work and honoring health care leaders UHF's Annual Gala Supporting UHF's work and honoring health care leaders United Hospital Fund’s Gala is one of New York’s premier ...

Focus Areas Our core activities are research and policy analysis, convening, knowledge dissemination, collaborative initiatives, capacity building, and grantmaking. Key priorities include the following.  Supporting comprehensive health insurance coverage and access to services. Universal, affordable, accessible health insurance offering comprehensive ...

The Opioid Epidemic's Impact on Children and Families The opioid epidemic is well recognized as a national crisis, but the impact on children and adolescents whose parents or close family members are addicted has received little sustained attention. A ...

Health Insurance Project Our analyses help policymakers target scarce resources and design effective programs. One recent analysis gave a voice to the uninsured in 16 upstate New York counties by pairing statistical data with findings from listening sessions with residents ...

Antibiotic Stewardship Certificate Program Antibiotic Stewardship Certificate Program In collaboration with the Greater New York Hospital Association A multidisciplinary team-based approach is helping hospitals and nursing homes advance their antibiotic stewardship programs to ensure more judicious prescribing. Antibiotic resistance and ...

Class of 2017-18 CQFP Class of 2017-18 Participants in the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Gifty Amankwah, RN, BS, MSN — NYC Health + Hospitals, Segundo Ruiz Belvis Kathleen Asas, MD, MPH, FAAP — SBH Health System Komal Bajaj, MD, MS-HPEd — NYC Health + Hospitals ...

Class of 2015-16 CQFP Class of 2015-16 Participants in the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Nada Abou-Fayssal, MD — NYU Lutheran Yasir Al-qaqaa, MD — NYU Langone Medical Center Fouad Atallah, MD — Maimonides Medical Center John Babineau, MD — NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Morgan Stanley Children ...

PROPC-NY Learning Collaborative As one facet of UHF’s work to increase patient engagement and the patient voice in health care, the Quality Institute advanced the use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures, or PROMs, with an 18-month learning collaborative. Participants in ...

Awards UHF Awards Honoring New York's leaders in health care, community service, quality improvement, and more Distinguished Community Service Award The Distinguished Community Service Award annually recognizes outstanding voluntary leadership of a specific initiative that is improving health and ...

J. Barclay Collins II J. Barclay Collins II UHF Special Tribute, 2019 In 2019, we saluted J. Barclay Collins II, Chairman Emeritus of UHF’s board, for his 35-year commitment to UHF. Many of United Hospital Fund’s achievements over ...

Priscilla Almodovar Priscilla Almodovar UHF Special Tribute, 2017 In 2017, we were pleased to salute Priscilla Almodovar for her work to create stable, healthy communities and improve the health of vulnerable New Yorkers. Research consistently demonstrates a strong link between ...

Debra G. Perelman Debra G. Perelman Distinguished Community Service Award, 2018 In 2018, we saluted Debra G. Perelman, co-founder and vice chair of the Child Mind Institute, for her leadership to improve treatment for childhood mental health disorders. A teen ...

2020 Honorees AdvantageCare Physicians Seema Massand , MD, MBA, Vice President, Clinical Quality BronxCare Health System Marion Riggins , BSN, MPH, CPHQ, Assistant Vice President, Regulatory Services and Quality Management Coalition of Asian-American IPA (CAIPA) Zhao Hui Wang , MD, PhD, President, Wang ...