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Nonprofit and Nursing Leaders Elected to UHF Board United Hospital Fund (UHF) announced today that Jennifer L. Howse, PhD, and Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN, have been elected to its board of directors. Jennifer L. Howse (left) and Eileen ...

Medicaid in New York: Innovating in an Era of Uncertainty The themes of innovation and efficiency ran through UHF's annual Medicaid Conference, held July 20, 2017, at the New York Academy of Medicine and attended by more than 450 people ...

United Hospital Fund Recognizes Four New Yorkers for Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care United Hospital Fund paid tribute tonight at its annual gala to leaders in philanthropy, banking, and health care—James H. Simons, PhD, Priscilla Almodovar ...

United Hospital Fund Transfers Ownership of Model Website to NYS Office for the Aging to Help Senior-Serving Community Organizations be More Strategic and Effective United Hospital Fund has transferred its NORC Blueprint: A Guide to Community Action website to the ...

Comprehensive Review Finds Meaningful Health Care Quality Information for New York State Consumers Severely Lacking A comprehensive UHF Quality Institute report reveals that the information New York State consumers most want when making health care choices is severely lacking. NEW ...

UHF Awards $219,107 in Grants to Improve Primary Care in New York UHF awarded two grants totaling $219,107 for projects aimed at improving primary care by addressing the social determinants of health. NEW YORK, NEW YORK February 26 ...

29th Annual Symposium on Health Care Services in New York: Research and Practice-Call for Posters Abstracts of posters to be considered for presentation at the annual Research Symposium may now be submitted, with a deadline of June 22, 2018. United ...

Suzanne Brundage Named UHF's Patricia S. Levinson Fellow Suzanne Brundage, director of the Children's Health Initiative at United Hospital Fund, has been selected as UHF's Patricia S. Levinson Fellow. Suzanne Brundage, director of the Children's Health Initiative at United Hospital ...

Health Department, United Hospital Fund and Partners Release Joint Report on Small Primary Care Practices in New York City The Population Health Improvement Program (PHIP) report is intended to help small practices and their potential partners understand the economics of ...

United Hospital Fund Launches Second Phase of Early Childhood Development Initiative to Address Social and Economic Factors Affecting Children's Health UHF launched the second phase of its Partnerships for Early Childhood Development initiative to address social determinants affecting the health ...

A Two-Pronged Approach to Antibiotic Resistance UHF addresses a public health crisis on two tracks: analyzing the problem and changing practice. Overprescribing of antibiotics has become a critical public health problem in America, resulting in a sharp rise in antibiotic-resistant ...

New Report Outlines What’s at Stake in Patient Decision-Making About Post-Acute Care Under stress of illness and hospitalization, patients and family caregivers are not well-positioned to make informed decisions about post-acute care. Release Date: 11.15.2018 Contact: carnst ...

VIDEO: Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Participants on What They've Learned, Where They're Going United Hospital Fund has been collaborating since 2015 with New York-area health care organizations, the Greater New York Hospital Association, the New York State Department of Health, and ...

Tony Shih Named to “Health Care Power 50” Dr. Shih listed as one of the 50 most influential people in New York health care. United Hospital Fund congratulates president Anthony Shih MD, MPH, on being named by City & State ...

The Ripple Effect: An In-Depth Look at The Hidden Impact of The Opioid Epidemic on Children A far-reaching UHF report makes clear that the magnitude of the opioid epidemic’s impact is much greater than realized. Even if the opioid ...

Number of New York State Primary Care Providers Adopting Coordinated Care Model Soars The number of primary care providers in New York State adopting the patient-centered medical home soard by more than 35 percent between May 2017 and May 2018 ...

Celebrating the 10th Class of Clinical Quality Fellow Graduates Thirty NY-area health professionals recently completed 15 months of training as the eleventh class of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program. Twenty-three physicians and six nurses recently completed 15 months of training ...

New Framework Facilitates Primary Care-Community Organization Partnerships to Screen for Social Determinants of Health NEW YORK, NY—June 6, 2019—United Hospital Fund (UHF) today released a framework designed to help primary care providers screen their patients for social determinants ...

Medicaid in New York: A Look Toward the Future United Hospital Fund’s annual Medicaid conference, Medicaid in New York: A Look Toward the Future, was held on Thursday, July 18, at the New York Academy of Medicine. United Hospital ...

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 ...

Lessons from the Great Recession: How Medicaid Enrollment Patterns of a Decade Ago Can Inform Policy During the Pandemic A HealthWatch report analyzes NYS Medicaid enrollment trends during the “Great Recession” of 2007-2009. NEW YORK, NY—June 9, 2020—A ...

New UHF Framework Addresses Health and Housing Partnerships in New York City UHF released a framework for developing community-wide partnerships between health care, housing, homeless services providers, and policymakers. Framework seeks to foster community-wide partnerships between policymakers, health care, housing ...

UHF Holds Tribute to Excellence in Health Care Virtual Event to Honor 63 Quality Improvement Leaders UHF honored 63 extraordinary quality improvement leaders from 57 health care organizations across the New York metropolitan region at its second annual Tribute to ...

UHF Annual Fall Gala Goes Virtual with Musical Tributes to Health Care Heroes and Awards to Five Health Care Leaders UHF's annual fall Gala was held virtually on October 5 and honored five New York leaders, as well as New ...

Trump Administration Rule Allowing Employers to Help Workers Afford Individual Plans Puts ACA Coverage and Premium Subsidies at Risk A Trump administration regulation allowing employers to establish individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements holds significant risks for New York consumers, particularly ...

United Hospital Fund Announces Two New Staff, One Promotion UHF named Alexandra Brandes as the new director of its Medicaid Institute, Susan Olivera as senior program officer, and Kristina Ramos-Callan as senior program manager. NEW YORK, NY—November 17, 2020 ...

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 ...