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HealthWatch: Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care in New York A HealthWatch brief looking at the ongoing enrollment growth in New York's Medicaid Long-Term Care program, with enrollment figures and a timeline of key policy changes. Since 2012, New York has required ...

Bronx Behavioral Health Integration Project and Patient-Reported Outcomes An overview of behavioral health screening and follow up in an urban primary care practice setting, and lessons for workflow and quality monitoring, are the focus of this PROPC-NY learning collaborative webinar ...

HealthWatch: New York-A National Leader in Public Insurance Coverage for Children A HealthWatch overview of children's health coverage in New York's Medicaid and Child Health Plus programs, with comparison to corresponding national figures. New York Medicaid and Child Health Plus ...

New York State's CARE Act: A Guide for Patients and Family Caregivers A Next Step in Care guide to New York's CARE Act-containing requirements designed to better engage and prepare family caregivers prior to patients' hospital discharge-is available in English ...

Developing a Core Measure Set to Assess Quality and Value of Primary Care in New York State This poster presentation describes the development of a set of quality and value measures for advanced primary care. As part of its work ...

Value-Based Payment Models for Medicaid Child Health Services Prepared by Bailit Health for UHF and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, this report lays out both the rationale and framework for value-based payments for children's health care in New ...

Advancing Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care: A Continuum-Based Framework An innovative, step-by-step model guides small to medium-size practices through the intricacies of integrating behavioral health services into primary care, one of the major challenges in the drive toward ...

Capitation and the Evolving Roles of Providers and Payers in New York This report describes the basics of capitation, spelling out the range of new skills and capacities required by providers to be successful at it, as well as implications ...

Always on Call This book, first published in 2000 and now substantially updated, presents an intimate look at the world of family caregiving. The compelling narratives by caregivers capture the intensity of the caregiving experience, while chapters by noted health ...

Family Caregivers on the Job This volume captures a year's worth of fruitful debate among experts convened from around the country to analyze the limitations of ADLs and IADLs and to explore alternatives. More than 27 million family caregivers in ...

The Illusion of Choice: Why Decisions About Post-Acute Care Are Difficult for Patients and Family Caregivers Second in the “Difficult Decisions” series of reports on the many factors that go into hospital discharge planning, with a focus on the experiences ...

Recent Trends and Future Directions for the Medical Home Model in New York Fourth in a series of reports monitoring the growth of the medical home model in New York, as measured by the number of practices recognized as Patient-Centered ...

A Year of Progress and Partnerships: UHF’s 2018 Annual Report UHF’s annual report provides some concrete examples of what building a more effective health system for every New Yorker might look like. What does building a more effective ...

Achieving Payment Reform for Children Through Medicaid and Stakeholder Collaboration Harnessing payment reform to improve children's health The related press release can be found here . Overhauling payments for children's health care so that quality and outcomes are rewarded—rather than ...

Home Alone Revisited: Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care Half of the nation's 40 million family caregivers are performing complicated medical and nursing tasks, including giving injections, preparing special diets, managing tube feedings, and handling medical equipment, often with little or ...

Legal Action Center To publish two issue briefs on policies and practices that best engage and retain justice-involved individuals in effective health care, drawing on the organization's experience working with New York State to enroll these individuals into Medicaid and ...

New Yorkers for Patient and Family Empowerment To improve patient care through a learning collaborative of up to 20 New York City hospitals focusing on supporting visiting policies that recognize, engage, and support family caregivers as partners in care. To ...

Greater New York Hospital Association Three To continue the UHF/GNYHA quality improvement partnership. To continue the UHF/GNYHA quality improvement partnership in three key areas: strengthening and expanding quality improvement education and training for doctors and nurses through the ...

The City University of New York School of Public Health To develop and pilot a student awareness campaign about depression, develop resources for students, and use student “Health Ambassadors” to craft and disseminate messages as well as provide information and ...

The Institute for Family Health This grant aims to improve care and outcomes for high-need patients by training staff in shared care planning, coordinating care among patients' multiple providers, expanding the Institute's ability to track care through the electronic health ...

Together on Diabetes-NYC/Isabella Geriatric Center To continue to serve Washington Heights by providing diabetes-related activities and services and further embed the program in the community. Since January 2011, the United Hospital Fund has been developing and testing a diabetes ...

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center To develop a screening method to detect adverse events and potentially preventable harm in the care of cancer patients, providing the basis for new patient safety and quality improvement efforts. Improving the identification of adverse patient ...

Fund for Public Health in New York / New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene To measure the effectiveness of the launch of New York State's health benefit exchange in reaching uninsured persons and facilitating their connection to health ...

Lori Evans Bernstein Joins Board of United Hospital Fund Lori Evans Bernstein has been elected to the United Hospital Fund's board of directors. Lori Evans Bernstein has been elected to the United Hospital Fund's board of directors. Ms. Evans Bernstein ...

United Hospital Fund Examines the Future of the Child Health Plus Program A new United Hospital Fund report examines New York's Child Health Plus program, whose federal funding was recently extended, but the federal funding prospects beyond 2017 are unknown ...

United Hospital Fund Report Identifies Goals for State Regulation of Risk Sharing Between Health Care Providers and Insurers A new report focuses on the increasingly common “risk-transfer” agreements between health insurance plans and health care providers, along with the policy ...

United Hospital Fund Awards $597,193 in Grants to Improve Health Care Services in New York United Hospital Fund announced 12 grants, totaling $597,193, for projects to build a more effective health care system for every New Yorker. United ...

UHF Report Examines Links Between the Performance and Characteristics of New York's Accountable Care Organizations A UHF report examines the performance of New York's accountable care organizations in Year 2 of the federal Medicare Shared Savings Program, finding that they ...

United Hospital Fund Report Takes a Fresh Look at New York's Resuscitated Individual Health Insurance Market A new United Hospital Fund report provides an analysis of enrollment and financial data on New York's individual health insurance market, before and after ...

Keeping Patient Engagement Relevant What do we mean when we say "patient engagement"? What related myths can we lay to rest? And how do we ensure that our public debate fosters meaningful implementation? There's general agreement in health policy circles ...

Health Department, United Hospital Fund, and Partners Release Plan Outlining Strategies to Increase Broad Adoption of Primary Care Medical Home Model to Promote Health Equity The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, United Hospital Fund, and partners ...

Chad Shearer Promoted to Vice President for Policy at United Hospital Fund Chad Shearer will now serve as vice president for policy as well as leading UHF's Medicaid work. Chad Shearer, director of the Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund ...

Catherine Arnst Joins United Hospital Fund as Director of Public Information Catherine Arnst joins United Hospital Fund as Director of Public Information. Catherine Arnst, an award winning health journalist and communications specialist, has joined United Hospital Fund as director of ...

United Hospital Fund Launches Partnerships for Early Childhood Development with NYC Hospitals to Screen and Address Social and Economic Factors Affecting Children's Health UHF announced a new initiative, Partnerships for Early Childhood Development, to support 11 New York City hospitals ...

United Hospital Fund, Seven Hospitals Expand Efforts to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing for Outpatients in New York City UHF announced today that it is launching Stage II of its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative to improve antibiotic prescribing for outpatients across New ...

New Report Probes Hospital Patients' Refusal of Home Care Services and the Impact on Readmissions and Outcomes UHF and the Alliance for Home Health Quality and Innovation today released a report titled, “I Can Take Care of Myself!”: Patients' Refusals ...

New Analysis Finds Significantly Higher Prescription Drug Costs for Medicaid and Commercial Insurers Across New York State Prescription drug spending increased significantly for health plans participating in the Medicaid Managed Care and the commercial small group markets in recent years ...

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 ...

Aiming for "Best Practices": UHF Learning Collaborative Focuses on Outpatient Antibiotic Use UHF's Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative has entered its second stage, with participating health systems and hospitals joining in a Learning Collaborative to improve prescribing for adults with acute ...

Measures that Matter: Team Seeks Data that Consumers Can Use for Health Care Decisions For New Yorkers trying to choose a doctor or hospital, finding valid, relevant, and accessible quality comparisons is remarkably difficult. A Quality Institute project is tackling ...

Robert S. Galvin, MD, Elected to Board of United Hospital Fund Robert S. Galvin, MD, chief executive officer of Equity Healthcare and a nationally recognized leader in market-based health policy and financing, has been elected a director of UHF. NEW ...

Family Caregiving Summit: Innovations Needed for Overlooked Groups of Caregivers Speakers at a family caregiving summit said much more needs to be done to support young caregivers and isolated caregivers in rural areas. The good news: New York State has ...

Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Small Practices Tackle the Challenge With training and some additional resources, even small primary care practices can routinely screen for and treat depression and anxiety—bringing care to the bulk of patients with those ...

Why UHF is Spearheading Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts Why UHF expanded its antibiotic stewardship to the outpatient setting and to nursing homes. This year's flu season is the worst in almost a decade and still getting worse, according to federal officials ...

Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Learning Session Explores Interventions and Patient-Provider Communication Teams from seven hospitals and health systems shared their progress and challenges as they seek to reduce antibiotic overuse and misuse for adults with acute respiratory infections. Amid a nasty ...