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 …
Helping Children and Parents Close the Literacy Gap When a child comes into your practice who needs more than clinical care, what can you do? That's the essential question animating the United Hospital Fund's PEDS Learning Network. More often than …
Reducing the Risk: Year 1 Report of the Polypharmacy in Nursing Homes Learning Collaborative A UHF report details promising results of a partnership with six nonprofit, New York-area skilled nursing homes that focused on safe “deprescribing”—decreasing the use of potentially …
“Medicalizing” Social Needs Is a Band-Aid and Not a Cure Twenty years ago, I left clinical practice for public health. I was tired of fighting against the outsized role that inadequate housing and a lack of access to healthy food, …
Reducing the Risk: Year 2 Report of the Polypharmacy in Nursing Homes Learning Collaborative The accompanying press release can be found here. Polypharmacy, also known as medication overload, refers to the prescribing of an inappropriately high number of medications and …
Addressing the Adolescent Behavioral Health Crisis Starts with Prevention UHF's recent report, The Ripple Effects of the Adolescent Behavioral Health Crisis, hit close to home in a way I didn't expect but probably should have. As we partnered with Boston …
One Book at a Time: The Milstein Toolkit to Promote Early Childhood Literacy in Primary Care Settings Early childhood literacy is a powerful catalyst for lifelong success. In fact, children who are not reading proficiently by the end of third …
Practical Approaches to Centering Equity in Health Care Quality: Shared Lessons from New York City’s Hospital Systems In 2022, UHF convened a task force of 22 leaders from nine local hospital systems. The group's goals were to develop a framework …