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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 ...

Our Grantmaking United Hospital Fund awards up to $500,000 annually in grants. Grants are primarily awarded to nonprofit health care service providers that participate directly with UHF in collaboratives or projects aligned with one of our three priority areas ...

Initiatives Initiatives Program and education work on key topics in health care UHF analyzes public policy to inform decision-makers, finds common ground among diverse stakeholders, and develops and supports innovative programs that improve the quality, accessibility, affordability, and experience of ...

Board of Directors & Officers Honorary Directors Rev. Dr. John E. Carrington John K. Castle Timothy C. Forbes Barbara P. Gimbel Robert C. Osborne, Sr. Michael A. Stocker, MD, MPH Frederick W. Telling, PhD Chair Emeritus J. Barclay Collins II President Emeritus James R. Tallon, Jr. Officers John C. Simons Chair Oxiris Barbot, MD President and CEO Jo Ivey Boufford, MD Vice Chair Quincy McLain, CPA Treasurer Sally J. Rogers Chad Shearer Senior Vice Presidents Quincy McLain, CPA Dora Mendez, MPA Vice Presidents Amanda A. Williams Corporate Secretary Directors Amal Alibair Head of US Institutional Client Solutions, Goldman Sachs   Oxiris Barbot, MD President and CEO, United Hospital Fund   Jo Ivey Boufford, MD Clinical Professor of Global Health, School of Global Public Health, New York University   Neera Chaudhary North American President of Ketchum   Dale C. Christensen, Jr. Senior Counsel,  Seward & Kissel LLP   J. Barclay Collins II Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Hess Corporation   Margaret Crotty Chief Executive Officer, Partnership with Children   Samuel J. Daniel, MD, FACP, FACG Assistant Chief, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mount Sinai ...

Legacy Society Profile: Robert A. and Patricia S. Levinson Bob and Pat Levinson Passion for Health Care Sparks Thoughtful Giving Reprinted from the Spring 2017 issue of Blueprint. Pat and Bob Levinson’s 61-year marriage was a happy and fulfilling ...

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 ...

NSIC Transitions Helping Family Caregivers with Transitions TESTPAGE "I'm caring for someone in a [home / hospital / rehab] moving to [home / hospital / rehab / hospice / LTC]" Helping Family Caregivers with Transitions TESTPAGE "I'm caring for someone in a [home / hospital ...

Initiatives Initiatives Program and education work on key topics in health care UHF analyzes public policy to inform decision-makers, finds common ground among diverse stakeholders, and develops and supports innovative programs that improve the quality, accessibility, affordability, and experience of ...

First 1,000 Days on Medicaid Initiative The First 1,000 Days Ten-Point Action Plan Braided funding for early childhood mental health consultations —to unite several state agencies to co-fund training for early childhood teachers on how to support healthy ...

Public and Private Health Insurance Markets The Big Picture VI: Private and Public Insurance Markets Health Insurance Coverage in New York, 2009 News May 9, 2023 New UHF Report Details Ways for Health Insurance Plans to Improve Health Equity May ...

Medicaid Institute The Medicaid Institute Team Emily Arsen, MPH Click to see email address Read Bio   X Emily Arsen, MPH Click to see email address Emily produces data analyses, writes policy memos, and facilitates convenings that support the improvement of ...

Clinical Quality Fellowship Program What Is the CQFP? Reflections on 10 Years of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Click below to see a brief video celebrating years of this influential program. Includes assessments from Lorraine Ryan, Deborah Halper, Hillary Jalon ...

Empowering New Yorkers with Quality Measures They Value Supported by a grant from the New York State Health Foundation   Measurement sets and public reporting have become integral to health care reform efforts, yet too often they don’t provide the ...

Earlier Quality Institute Projects Resources and information from UHF’s prior quality improvement collaboratives can be found using the links below. Caring for Your Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC): A Guide for Patients and Family Caregivers  (2017)  Implementing New York ...

How's My Health Dashboard SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM THE NEW YORK STATE HEALTH FOUNDATION   Increasing demands on primary care have led to new challenges in patient-provider relationships. Primary care clinicians increasingly care for clinically and socially complex patients ...

DCSA Distinguished Community Service Award The Distinguished Community Service Award annually recognizes exceptional voluntary leadership of a specific initiative that is improving health and health care in the New York metropolitan area. The awardee is selected by a jury process ...

Stanley Brezenoff Back to Health Care Leadership Awards In 2018, UHF was pleased to present the award to Stanley Brezenoff, for his decades of commitment to New York and New Yorkers and his accomplishment as a public official and hospital ...

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 ...

COVID-19 Parenting Resources Last updated April 30, 2021. General Information About Coronavirus for Families 2019 Novel Coronavirus Information on COVID-19 and tips for parents on how to keep kids healthy, how to handle school closures, and how to talk to ...

Supporting Consumer Decision-Making The case for becoming an informed health care consumer is a simple but compelling one. Uneven quality persists throughout the health care system after 20 years of investment in improving it. Why This Is Important A 2017 ...

Making the Case for Change What can a clinician do? While health inequities are caused by many forces deeply rooted in society’s structures—and there is no single solution for achieving health equity—child health providers have an important ...

NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Gouverneur The Pediatric Center at Gotham Health, Gouverneur is a general pediatric practice that sees approximately 2,200 children under the age of 5 annually. It is one in a network of six large community ...

Building Blocks The pages in this section lay out strategies for health equity approaches in pediatric practice. The brief writeups here include challenges that practices might face in implementing change, practical approaches and snapshots of how other practices are tackling ...

Integrating Behavioral Health Integrating behavioral health screening and developmental screening and surveillance into routine well-child visits can help clinicians identify and address issues that threaten a child’s optimal development. Without such screenings, some important conditions may be missed and ...

Medicaid Conference Each summer, UHF’s Medicaid Institute hosts a major conference that brings together health care policymakers, providers, insurers, community organizations, and policy experts to discuss timely issues of import to New York’s Medicaid Program. In recent years ...

2017 Medicaid Conference UHF’s 2017 conference on Medicaid in New York acknowledged current challenges for Medicaid while outlining and reaffirming the program’s goals. In his opening keynote, New York State Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson discussed the range of ...

FAQ and Methodology Frequently Asked Questions Where are the data used in the dashboards from? All data published in the UHF dashboards are publicly available on New York State or federal websites. The exact data sources are linked in the ...

City Agencies, Hospitals, and Structural Change The approach to managing the City’s health agenda affects the mayor’s ability to address health and health care issues in New York City. A majority of the candidates in the roundup had ...

Karen Washington Back to Distinguished Community Service Awards UHF is proud to present the 2021 Distinguished Community Service Award to Karen Washington, in recognition of her exemplary work as a champion of food sustainability for over 30 years and as ...

Kenneth Cole Back to Special Tributes UHF is proud to recognize Kenneth Cole for his role as founder and chairman of The Mental Health Coalition to destigmatize mental health conditions and enable equitable access to resources and support. For more ...

UHF's Impact - Disabled UHF's Impact How UHF is improving health and health care Health care can be dauntingly convoluted, with different factors affecting so many aspects of health. UHF works to improve health and health care on numerous ...

UHF Mission, Annotated Some of the terms in our mission statement have no standard definitions and may be confusing and subject to misinterpretation. This primer is intended to clarify what UHF means when using these terms (i.e., the ones ...

2022 Honorees The 2022 Excellence in Health Care Award Honorees 73 honorees from across the New York metropolitan region UHF’s Excellence in Health Care Award honors extraordinary personal leadership to improve quality of care, patient safety, and patient experience ...

Recent Activities How UHF Supports NY Health Care Sign up to learn more about our recent activities UHF has been working to improve health care in New York since 1879. Here are some of the ways we're improving health ...

GivingTuesday 2022 Thanksgiving Message from Oxiris Barbot, MD 0002F5BE-1640-40F5-9D81-D091B6986488 Created with sketchtool. On this day of thanks... All of us at United Hospital Fund wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving. We are working every day to ensure that every New ...

Jennifer Mieres, MD Jennifer Mieres, MD UHF Special Tribute 2022 In 2022, UHF saluted Jennifer Mieres, MD, for her role as a leader in women’s health, in diversity, equity, and inclusion in health care, and in advancing heart care ...

Class of 2023-24 CQFP Class of 2023-24 Participants in the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program Gina Adams, RN, Catholic Health Good Samaritan University Hospital Khaja Ahmed, DO, NewYork-Presbyterian/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Joshua Allen-Dicker, MD, MPH, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied ...

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 ...