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 …
Grim Times and Health Insurance: Maintaining Coverage During the Pandemic A consumer guide with practical advice on how New Yorkers can replace lost health coverage or find a new health plan during these perilous times. Available in English, Spanish, Simplified …
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 …
Near-Universal Children's Coverage: New York's Threatened Legacy With an uncertain future for Medicaid it is vital to reflect on the efforts behind New York's remarkable, and hard-won, rate of health insurance coverage for its children, and on the planned improvements …
The Historic Promise and Uncertain Future of Medicaid With complex challenges facing the vital safety-net program, Medicaid's future is increasingly uncertain, the director of UHF's Medicaid Institute told the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium. On January 24, 2018, Chad E. …
Getting Ready for Medicare's New ID Cards: What Providers and Beneficiaries Need to Know and Do New Medicare ID cards, meant to reduce identity theft, require updates to providers' office systems—and some guidance and reassurance for patients. Sometime in the …
UHF’s Suzanne Brundage Testifies About Impact of Opioid Epidemic on Children before NYS Senate Task Force Suzanne Brundage, director of UHF's Children's Health Initiative, testified before a Joint New York State Senate Task Force on Opioids on the impact of …
COVID-19 Deepens Existing Health Disparities COVID-19 is taking a greater toll on disadvantaged New Yorkers who were already at enormous risk to any interruption of work, income, and health. Expanding health care coverage and investing in social safety-net programs are …
COVID-19 Pandemic Perspectives: Will COVID-19 Change the Way We Look at Mental Health and Substance Misuse? At this moment of crisis, the health care system is becoming more responsive to the biopsychosocial needs of essential workers, very ill patients, and …
Can You Provide Pre-existing Condition Protections Without the ACA? It’s Not So Easy Peter Newell, director of UHF’s Health Insurance Project, highlights the numerous ways ACA provisions protect consumers with pre-existing conditions. With a lawsuit seeking the repeal of the …
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 …
Extra Coverage Help Under the American Rescue Plan for New Yorkers Who Lost Jobs and Job-Based Insurance A HealthWatch brief examining the ways that the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act will help consumers afford premiums on lost employer-based coverage (COBRA), …
Profiles in Integrated Family Care Profiles of five providers that work in very different settings but all are actively implementing elements of the “Integrated Family Care” model. The related press release can be found here. Integrated Family Care aims to …
Not Sick Does Not Mean Well Every morning, I check the daily stats on COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in my area. Like many others, I'm trying to discern patterns: Are the upward or downward trends continuing? Are we peaking …
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 …
Food Insecurity and Health Care: Addressing Food Insecurity through the Health Care System in New York Quantifying the health impact of food insecurity on New Yorkers--and reviewing potential solutions to alleviate food insecurity's burden on families and individuals. The accompanying …
Medicaid’s Growth: Failure or Success Story? Tony Shih's message from the spring/summer 2022 issue of Blueprint In April, New York State enacted its largest-ever state budget at $220 billion. Health-related expenses were by far the costliest item, including more than …
A Turning Point in the Pandemic and at UHF Oxiris Barbot's message from the fall 2022 issue of Blueprint. As I take the reins of this 143-year-old nonprofit organization dedicated to building an effective and equitable health care system for …
A Devastating Report on Teen Mental Health: Many Causes Require Many Responses Adolescence is a time of growth and discovery, but also of disappointments and uncertainty. Teenagers in today's complex world face many more challenges than were common for American …
What Health Systems Can Do About Gun Violence UHF’s Joan Guzik explores how health systems can tackle gun violence with the same level of priority and commitment with which they have confronted other public health problems. One of the key …
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Newsroom Newsroom Media inquiries and resources UHF's experts help make sense of our changing health care system. Our team of experts is a valuable resource for researchers, and journalists alike and our work and expertise appear in a range of …
Legacy Society Profile: J Barclay Collins II J. Barclay Collins II Legacy Society Profile Helping Sustain UHF's Future UHF’s Legacy Society honors and recognizes those who have included a bequest or other type of planned gift arrangement for UHF in …
Coverage and Access Coverage and Access Promoting comprehensive, affordable health insurance and access to care for all New Yorkers New York is a national leader in ensuring comprehensive, affordable health insurance for its residents—including providing public coverage to its most …
Implementing Federal Health Care Reform After the American Rescue Plan: Trick or Treat? Extra Coverage Help Under the American Rescue Plan for New Yorkers Who Lost Jobs and Job-Based Insurance A Shot in the Arm: American Rescue Plan Act Boosts …
Antibiotic Stewardship Certificate Program Antibiotic Stewardship Certificate Program In collaboration with the Greater New York Hospital Association A multidisciplinary team-based approach is helping hospitals and nursing homes advance their antibiotic stewardship programs to ensure more judicious prescribing. Antibiotic resistance and …
Class of 2017-18 CQFP Class of 2017-18 Participants in the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Gifty Amankwah, RN, BS, MSN — NYC Health + Hospitals, Segundo Ruiz Belvis Kathleen Asas, MD, MPH, FAAP — SBH Health System Komal Bajaj, MD, MS-HPEd …
PROPC-NY Learning Collaborative As one facet of UHF’s work to increase patient engagement and the patient voice in health care, the Quality Institute advanced the use of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures, or PROMs, with an 18-month learning collaborative. Participants in the …
Primary Care Transformation * Please note: This project is no longer active. The resources and information below are provided for archival purposes and may be out of date. Contact info@uhfnyc.org if you have any questions or concerns. Supported by a …
Awards UHF Awards Honoring New York's leaders in health care, community service, quality improvement, and more Distinguished Community Service Award 2023 Honoree: Zachary Iscol The Distinguished Community Service Award annually recognizes outstanding voluntary leadership of a specific initiative that is …
Afya Foundation Afya Foundation UHF Special Tribute, 2018 In 2018 we were pleased to salute Afya Foundation and its founder Danielle Butin for vital assistance to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and responses to crises worldwide. Within …
Scott B. Salmirs Scott B. Salmirs Distinguished Community Service Award, 2016 In 2016, we saluted Scott B. Salmirs, a founder of Donate Eight, a nonprofit organization that has galvanized members of New York’s real estate, building management, and building services …
2019 Honorees BronxCare Health System John R. Colón, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trustees For improving access to care for the West African community in the Bronx by creating a new diaspora practice to address the major health needs of this …
Class of 2020-21 Oluyemisi Ariyibi, MD, MPH, CUNY Sophie-David School of Medicine and SBH Health System William Bodeker, MS, FNP-BC, CEN, CCRN, Mount Sinai Health System Kimberly Cartmill, MD, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Kelly Sessler, MPH, RN, CCRN-K, CLNC, NewYork-Presbyterian …
Quality Leaders Forum Quality Leaders Forum Building a network of leaders in health care quality The Quality Leaders Forum is a group of emerging and established quality leaders committed to improving the delivery of high-quality care in the greater New …
COVID-19 COVID-19 UHF's work related to the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic is touching every aspect of New York's health care system and broader community, and its effects will be long-lasting. This page includes links to various UHF efforts related …
PEDS Network Fellowship PEDS Network Fellowship Working to transform pediatric primary care practice The PEDS Network fellowship program is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of clinical leaders committed to improving early childhood development and reducing disparities for children and …
Partnering with Parents and Communities Understanding the communities in which families live and the concerns of parents can help clinicians identify and prioritize barriers to high-quality care pediatric care. These issues can range from operational concerns like wait times for …
2019 Medicaid Conference UHF’s 2019 conference on Medicaid in New York featured a keynote by Donna Frescatore, New York State Medicaid Director, that highlighted the State’s progress toward ensuring that all New Yorkers have health coverage and achieving broad adoption …
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. Back to Health Care Leadership Awards UHF is proud to present the Health Care Leadership Award to Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., in recognition of his personal leadership and TIAA’s role as one of the largest and …
2016 Medicaid Conference UHF’s 2016 conference on Medicaid in New York focused on payment reform efforts, both planned and under way. Jason Helgerson, New York State Medicaid Director, delivered an opening keynote on implementing a new value-based payment model, along …
2021 Honorees AdvantageCare Physicians Eveth Green, FNP-BC, MBA, MSN, RN, Assistant Vice President of Nursing BronxCare Health System Dave A. F. Livingstone, MD, Chairman, Anesthesiology The Brooklyn Hospital Center Judy McLaughlin, DNP, MS, BSN, BS, RN, Senior Vice President and …
Quality and Efficiency in Brooklyn Moving from an “F” to an “A”: One Doctor’s Story Quality and efficiency in Brooklyn Dramatic changes in quality of care and patient safety at The Brooklyn Hospital Center are hard to overstate. The hospital …
Class of 2022-23 Mina Attaalla, DO, SBH Health System Jenna Blind, RN, DNP, MS, NYU Langone Health/Long Island Johanna Cabassa, MD, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi Tracey Capers, RN, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue Lisa Casale, MD, Hackensack Meridian Health/Hackensack Meridian Health …