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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 ...

The Top Ten Things Caregivers Don't Want to Hear... Carol Levine, Director of the Fund's Families and Health Care Project, presents a collection of the kinds of unsolicited advice, unwelcome criticism, and undeserved praise that she and other caregivers receive ...

Preparing for the New Normal If there's one thread that runs through all of UHF's work, it's the knowledge that health care is in an extended period of flux. Our efforts must be more anticipatory, and responsive, than ever. Andrea ...

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 ...

Breaking a Fifty-Year Compact The approach taken by the latest health care proposal would break a 50-year federal-state compact and threaten New York's coverage and quality achievements. New York has overwhelmingly embraced the Affordable Care Act, taking advantage of subsidies ...

A Message from Tony Shih UHF's new president, Tony Shih, MD, MPH, introduces himself and looks to the future. Dear Friends, In recent months, all of us have had a front-row seat as our nation grapples with important health policy ...

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 ...

Is Health Care Quality Improving? Asking whether health care quality is really improving may not be the right question at all. Recently, I had a spirited debate with a colleague on whether health care quality and patient safety have improved ...

What Does Price Transparency Have to Do with Patient Empowerment? There are numerous steps between greater price transparency and a more empowered patient, and it’s a more complex issue than it might look like at first glance. One of ...

Pushing for Improvement One Step at a Time Improving the health care system is rarely about sweeping and dramatic changes. More often than not, progress is achieved through incremental steps. Health care policy has dominated the headlines for yet another ...

The Virus Has No Boundaries: How COVID-19 Affects People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; this commentary outlines the difficulties and needs of this vulnerable population. Disclaimer: The ...

Health Insurance: Rethinking Goals Amid Interrupted Progress Re-evaluating health insurance coverage goals and confronting fundamental inequity and unfairness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Times of crisis can bring clarity to fundamental problems. While we've witnessed the heroic actions of many health ...

Emergency Department Visits in the Age of COVID: Some Lessons Learned Yves Duroseau, MD, MPH, chairman of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital, examines how emergency department use may have been affected by the coronavirus. Disclaimer: The views presented here ...

As Vaccines Roll Out, It Is Essential to Accommodate Those With Disabilities Disclaimer: The views presented here are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of United Hospital Fund, its staff, or its board of directors. New ...

Health Policy Roundup: Mayoral Candidates Propose Wide Range of Approaches for Improving Health and Health Care in New York City New York City's next mayor will have to address a litany of health policy issues beyond COVID-19, and UHF has ...

When Improving Patient-Provider Communication, Don’t Forget the Family Caregiver In this new commentary, Carol Levine discusses how a tool such as How’s My Health Dashboard can support conversations between patients and their caregivers and, in turn, enhance their ...

Pain Points Along the Journey from Skilled Nursing Facility to Home: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives Building on a longstanding commitment to improving care transitions, UHF surveyed patients and family caregivers who had recently experienced a discharge to home from a ...

The Pandemic’s Lessons for the Health Care Ecosystem More than 20 months have passed since our first COVID-19 case here in New York. During this time, almost all of us have had to take stock of our operations, apply ...

Language Access Equity: A Roadmap for Improving Care for Language-Minority Patients Disclaimer: The views presented here are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of United Hospital Fund, its staff, or its board of directors. Growing up ...

Recovering Language Lost to Aphasia: One Syllable, One Movement at a Time This book review by UHF senior fellow Carol Levine explores issues of communication in caregiving and health care, specifically related to the issue of aphasia. This condition has ...

Federal Legislation Extends Important Benefit for New Yorkers in the Nick of Time After months of negotiations with recalcitrant U.S. Senator Joe Manchin on the Biden Administration's sweeping Build Back Better Plan, the enactment of the slimmed-down Inflation Reduction ...

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 ...

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UHF History United Hospital Fund was founded by hospital trustees and other concerned New Yorkers in 1879 as an innovative approach to organizing charitable support for voluntary, nonprofit hospitals in New York City and to help solve shared problems. Known ...