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Peter Newell Named UHF Patricia S. Levinson Fellow United Hospital Fund has selected Peter Newell, director of its Health Insurance Project, as the new Patricia S. Levinson Fellow. NEW YORK, NY—October 21, 2021—United Hospital Fund announced today that ...

Quality Leaders Forum: Focus on Simple Rules for Driving Change Helen Bevan, chief transformation officer of NHS Horizons in Britain, was the featured speaker at UHF’s fourth Quality Leaders Forum. The secret of success is not to foresee the ...

UHF VP of Human Resources Vaughn Murria Named to Council on Foundations’ Career Pathways Leadership Development Program The Council on Foundations has chosen Vaughn Murria, UHF’s Vice President of Human Resources and Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, for ...

UHF Honors 73 Health Care Professionals as Quality Improvement Champions UHF honored 73 quality improvement leaders from 68 health care organizations across the metropolitan region at it's annual Tribute to Excellence in Health Care event. 4th Annual Tribute to Excellence ...

Making Medicaid More Accessible and Equitable: UHF’s Annual Medicaid Conference At United Hospital Fund's annual Medicaid Conference on July 21, Amir Bassiri , Medicaid Director at the New York State Department of Health, announced that the state's Medicaid Program is ...

UHF Elects Goldman Sachs Executive Amal Alibair to Board United Hospital Fund has elected Amal Alibair, head of the U.S. Institutional Client Solutions business for Goldman Sachs Private Wealth Management, to its Board of Directors. NEW YORK, NY—October ...

“Milestones Matter”: One Pediatrician’s Perseverance Drives Transformative Change A United Hospital Fund pediatric fellow's idea drives transformative change at her Long Island City clinic. Long Island City pediatrician Nancy Lee, MD, was frustrated by the hurdles non-English speaking parents ...

Every Minute Matters: A Nurse Dramatically Improves Treatment for Heart Attack Patients A nurse manager's project with the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program has ensured heart attack patients get diagnosed and treated as quickly as possible in a Queens emergency room ...

Measuring the Value of Digital Technologies Dr. Eric Schneider, one of the nation's leading health care researchers, was the featured speaker at the January 19, 2023 meeting at United Hospital Fund’s Quality Leaders Forum webinar During the pandemic, health ...

Quality Collaborative Overview of efforts of the UHF-GNYHA partnership to improve hospital quality of care and patient safety. (Ceased publication in 2017; archived copies at link below.)

The Right Prescription: Assessing Potentially Inappropriate Use of Antibiotics Among New York's Medicaid Population To examine potentially inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in New York State's Medicaid program and aid targeted reduction efforts, this Medicaid Institute brief reviews antibiotic prescriptions for Medicaid ...

Advancing Behavioral Health Integration for Small Primary Care Practices: Progress, Emerging Themes, and Policy Considerations At the midway point of a pioneering effort by small primary care practices in New York City and State to integrate behavioral health care into ...

Empowering New Yorkers with Quality Measures That Matter to Them A comprehensive report on health care quality measurement and public reporting in New York, prepared with funding support from New York State Health Foundation. Although quality measurement and public reporting ...

Presentations from "Medicaid in New York: Innovating in an Era of Uncertainty" PDF presentations from the 2017 Medicaid conference. The presentations below were featured at the United Hospital Fund conference Medicaid in New York: Innovating in an Era of Uncertainty ...

Rewind: New York State Faces Familiar Issues and New Challenges in the "Repeal and Replace" Era Key provisions in the American Health Care Act-part of the plan by the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal and replace the Affordable ...

Partnerships for Early Childhood Development Learning Collaborative Introducing the goals and processes of the Partnerships for Early Childhood Development, the project's Learning Collaborative kicked off with a webinar and in-person meeting to bring hospital and community-based partners together. The groundbreaking ...

HealthWatch: The Geography of Federal Medicaid Reform HealthWatch brief from UHF's Medicaid Institute showing the broad distribution of New York State's Medicaid population, and how changes to the federal-state Medicaid program would affect New Yorkers. As of March 24, 2017 ...

Bridging the Gap: Moving from Planning to Routinization Guidance on testing and assessment to aid in the adoption of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures are offered in this webinar presentation from the PROPC-NY learning collaborative. Guidance on testing and assessment in quality ...

Using PROMs in Primary Care: Making the Case and Experience from the Field A presentation at the initial meeting of the PROPC-NY learning collaborative makes the case for the role of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in primary care. A presentation at ...

It All Falls on Me A joint report from UHF and AARP Public Policy Institute looking at family caregiver perspectives on medication management, wound care, and video instruction. Read the related press release . This United Hospital Fund and AARP Public ...

Understanding Medicaid Utilization for Children in New York State A data brief and accompanying chartbook presenting key findings on current Medicaid spending and utilization for children. See the related press release . Medicaid in New York is a vital safety net ...

Performance of New York's Accountable Care Organizations in Year 2 of the Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable care organizations have now been participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program long enough for year-over-year comparisons and additional analysis of factors affecting ...

Seizing the Moment: Strengthening Children's Primary Care in New York An analysis of New York's momentous opportunity to improve the health and well-being of children through a renewed focus on early childhood development in primary care, with key considerations and ...

What's Next for New York's Child Health Plus Program? This issue brief examines decisions New York faces as it considers the future of the Child Health Plus (CHP) program, the State's health insurance plan for children. Read the related press ...

The Cultures of Caregiving The Cultures of Caregiving brings together physicians, nurses, social workers, and policy experts to examine the differences and conflicts (and sometimes common ground) between family caregivers and healthcare professionals. In The Cultures of Caregiving , Carol Levine ...

Landmark Study Profiles Young Caregivers As many as 1.4 million U.S. children provide care for an adult family member, according to a report from the United Hospital Fund and the National Alliance for Caregiving. As many as 1 ...

Patient-Reported Outcomes in Primary Care-New York Implementation guide for identifying and incorporating patients' needs and goals into primary care, along with an overview of policy implications and several field reports from the PROPC-NY initiative. Listening to patients' perspectives should be ...

Work in Progress: UHF's 2014 Annual Report New York’s health care system is on the move, with dramatic changes being made in its basic elements. The success of this transformation will in large part be determined by how we ...

Explain. Improve. Connect.: UHF's 2012 Annual Report Explain, improve, connect: three imperatives for our time that also describe both the goals and substance of the Fund's work. The 2012 annual report, covering the most remarkable year for health policy in ...

Pathways to Progress on Difficult Decisions in Post-Acute Care Fourth in the Difficult Decisions series, laying out the best practices, innovations, and policy levers that could help support New Yorkers who need to make decisions about post-acute care. The related ...

New York’s Medicare ACOs Improve Performance in Year 5 of the Medicare Shared Savings Program The accountable care organizations participating in the fifth year of this CMS program offer relevant lessons about moving towards value-based payment systems. The associated ...

DSRIP Promising Practices: Strategies for Meaningful Change for New York Medicaid Identifying key lessons and promising practices from the first four years of New York State’s Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment program. Identifying key lessons and promising practices from ...

Easing the Stigma of Public Coverage: Workers with Health Coverage at Their Jobs Get Significant Government Aid Too Analysis and explanation of the federal and state tax subsidies behind the employer tax exclusion. This work was supported by a grant ...

NYSDOH Hospital Quality Rating Stakeholder Workgroup: Final Recommendations Recommendations for designing more user-friendly and meaningful hospital provider profiles that could help inform the health care decisions New Yorkers commonly face. Participants from consumer advocacy groups, providers, payers, and professional and ...

New York’s “Other” Individual Market Needs an Update A recommended series of upgrades for New York’s “off-exchange” market for individuals, including the elimination of enrollment barriers for immigrants who are not permitted to get coverage through the NY ...

Keeping Our Eyes on Children Pediatric primary care can play a significant role in children's functioning later in life. How to structure practices, payment policies, workforce, and training to support that goal is a critical question. Long before I had ...

Levers of Change: Local Focus, System-Wide Gains For a small organization, UHF has a very large mission: to improve health care for all New Yorkers. We've had notable successes through the years, by using our resources strategically and focusing on ...

Demystifying the Language of Health Care and Social Services This commentary by Carol Levine was originally published on Aging Today's blog. The following commentary, written by Carol Levine, director of the Families and Health Care Project, was originally published on ...

Implementing the CARE Act: What's Working? What's Not? It's been a year since New York State's CARE Act went into effect, with the goal of ensuring that patients know they can name a family caregiver before they're discharged from the ...

Can You Get Paid to Take Care of Your Mom? Caregivers may be able to receive reimbursement for their time caring for family members. Here are a number of possibilities. Among the many words used to describe family caregivers—invisible ...

The Statistics Don't Capture the Opioid Epidemic's Impact on Children When parents become addicted to opioids or die of an overdose, their children also bear the burden—yet children are rarely the focus of concerted planning and action to combat ...

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 ...

Left Out of Value-Based Payment Payment reform alone can’t sustain everything we need to improve health. Exciting things are happening in health care. Beyond advances in technology and medical science—which are expected over time but still amazing to ...

COVID-19 Pandemic: Questions for the Future Big-picture questions raised by the pandemic response. We are in the midst of one of the greatest public health crises of our lifetimes. Years from now, students from numerous disciplines will study the COVID-19 ...

Grandparents and Traumatized Children: Where Two Epidemics Converge This commentary zooms in on a critical point of convergence between two public health crises: grandparents vulnerable to coronavirus, and the children in their care because of parental opioid use. Policymakers can ...