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Workers in New York State with Employer-Sponsored Insurance Receive Nearly $23 Billion in Tax Subsidies The uninsured often avoid public insurance because of stigma, but they might feel differently if they understood all the tax benefits that subsidize empolyer-based insurance ...

New York’s Affordable Care Act Marketplace Now Open For Business For 2020 In Run-up to Opening, UHF Roundtable Focuses on Reaching Remaining Uninsured, Public Charge Rule In Run-up to Opening, UHF Roundtable Focuses on Reaching Remaining Uninsured, Public Charge ...

UHF's Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative: A Look-Back A review of a major United Hospital Fund program designed to combat antibiotic resistance. By Joan Guzik, MBA, and Pooja Kothari, RN, MPH Joan Guzik is the director of quality improvement for UHF's ...

UHF Launches Third Phase of Partnerships for Early Childhood Development Initiative Eight NY health system pediatric practices are partnering with community organizations to address the economic and social factors affecting children's health NEW YORK, NY—January 17, 2020—United Hospital ...

UHF Launches Third Year of Partnerships for Early Childhood Development with Learning Collaborative On March 2 UHF launched the third phase of its Partnerships for Early Childhood Development initiative with a learning collaborative. Many things we need can wait. The ...

COVID-19 Pandemic Perspectives: Community Health Centers on the Brink United Hospital Fund has a long history of bringing together diverse perspectives to address critical challenges in health care in New York. In the current crisis, it's more important than ever ...

The Virus Has No Boundaries: How COVID-19 Affects People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities By Ron Colavito and Arthur Y. Webb Disclaimer: The views presented here are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of United Hospital ...

Blueprint Regular updates from UHF on research, grantmaking, convenings, and fundraising efforts

Clinical-Community Partnerships for Better Health: Observations from New York City's Partnerships for Early Childhood Development Initiative Observations and lessons from the first year of the learning collaborative and grant initiative called Partnerships for Early Childhood Development (PECD), which supports clinical-community ...

NYC PHIP Small Practice Project A report from the New York City Population Health Improvement Program examining a shared-services model that could help small practices serve as medical homes and succeed in value-based payment arrangements. Read the related press release ...

Child Health Plus Enrollment: The Curve Bends Back Up, Sharply Enrollment in New York State's Child Health Plus (CHP) program grew in every county of the state between 2016 and 2017, and 17% statewide. Current discussion of funding the federal ...

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 New data on what family caregivers who perform medical and nursing tasks are experiencing. Half of the nation's 40 million family caregivers are performing complicated medical and nursing tasks, including giving injections ...

It's About Trust: Parents' Perspectives on Pediatricians Screening for Social Needs A report from Public Agenda, based on interviews with low-income parents in New York City, explores how pediatricians can identify vulnerable children and families and connect them through community ...

Mile Marker or High-Water Mark? Tracking New York's Progress in Covering the Uninsured A HealthWatch brief on New York’s progress in covering the uninsured, and obstacles to reaching the 1.1 million who still lack health insurance. This work ...

Healthier Homes, Healthier Childhoods: How Medicaid Can Address the Housing Conditions Contributing to Pediatric Asthma Focusing on indoor air quality as a key aspect of substandard housing in New York City, this HealthWatch brief identifies neighborhoods that Medicaid providers and ...

A Year of Impact: UHF's 2019 Annual Report UHF’s annual report covers our priorities and accomplishments in a busy and productive year. To address complex and evolving challenges in health care and to maximize our own effectiveness, UHF focuses ...

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 ...

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone To pilot test, evaluate, and recommend modifications to a screening, referral, and feedback process that connects patients that screen positive for one or more social needs to appropriate community-based organizations for social support services ...

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 ...