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Seeking New Health Care Models in an Uncertain Time Health policy expert Kavita Patel, MD, lays out competing visions for cost and payment reforms in her keynote to the 27th Annual Symposium on Health Care Services in New York. Post-election ...

Non-Profit Leaders Discuss the Future of Health Care Reform At a panel discussion on January 24, 2017, hosted by Philanthropy New York, David Sandman and Jim Tallon discussed health care reform and the prospect of replacing the Affordable Care Act ...

UHF Kicks Off Learning Collaborative to Help Hospital-Community Partnerships Help Children The Partnerships for Early Childhood Development, addressing social determinants of health, brings pediatric primary care and social service agencies together for the initial webinar of its Learning Collaborative, to ...

Clinical Quality Fellows: Agents of Health Care Change The latest graduating class of Clinical Quality Fellows are addressing the challenges of increasing system-wide connections and patient-centered care. GNYHA's Lorraine Ryan, CQFP Chair Rohit Bhalla, MD, MPH, graduating Fellow Janine Duran ...

New Report Outlines Ways to Strengthen Consumer Access to Provider Networks in New York State With health insurance premiums rising, delivery system reforms reshaping how services are provided, and the future of the Affordable Care Act in doubt, a United ...

Health Affairs Article Highlights UHF's Partnerships in Early Childhood Development Initiative An innovative partnership among United Hospital, the Altman Foundation, and The New York Community Trust is helping health care and neighborhood social services providers address social, environmental, and economic ...

A New Chapter: Anthony Shih, MD, MPH, Becomes UHF President Dr. Anthony Shih has become the new president of United Hospital Fund, bringing an extensive background in health policy, health system performance improvement, quality improvement, and population health. Anthony Shih ...

Board Member Eileen Sullivan-Marx Named Nursing Academy President-Elect UHF Board member Eileen Sullivan-Marx has been named president-elect of the American Academy of Nursing. UHF board member Eileen Sullivan-Marx, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean and Erline Perkins McGriff Professor of New York ...

Health Research Symposium Focuses on Using Data in Patient Engagement The 28th annual Symposium on Health Care Services in New York: Research and Practice focused on the use of data in improving patient care. Read about and view the presentations ...

Crain's Health Pulse Interview: "New UHF President Sets Policy Agenda Amid D.C.'s Ever-Changing Health Care Landscape" Crain's New York York Health Pulse interviews UHF President Anthony Shih, MD, MPH, about health care trends. Crain's New York Health Pulse ...

UHF's Chad Shearer Testifies Before City Council on Public Hospital Challenges, Progress In invited testimony before the New York City Council Committee on Hospitals, Chad Shearer laid out the importance of the Health + Hospitals safety net and the need to ...

Milestone for Quality Leadership Program The Clinical Quality Fellowship Program reaches a milestone: its tenth—and largest—class of leaders-in-training. The tenth class of the UHF/Greater New York Hospital Association Clinical Quality Fellowship Program started its intensive training as ...

Clinical Quality Fellowship Program: Celebrating the Newest Group of Quality Leaders The Clinical Quality Fellowship Program held its culminating dinner for the 2017-18 class of 19 physicians and 9 nurses. @HillaryJalon Such a rewarding, wonderful program and so grateful to ...

Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Project Leads to Drop in Prescribing Improved antibiotic prescribing practices reported at final meeting of Phase II of the Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative. The development of antibiotics was one of the great medical advances of the 20th ...

Quality Fellows Use New Skills to Improve Patient Care Having completed an intensive 15-month program to learn proven techniques to advance quality and patient safety programs in their hospitals, the 2015/2016 class of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program and ...

New UHF Resources Help Primary Care Practices Prioritize Patients’ Needs and Goals UHF’s 18-month collaboration with three health care systems yields lessons for incorporating patient-reported outcomes in primary care NEW YORK, NEW YORK December 17, 2018— In a complex ...

To Err is Human: Documentary Spotlights the Toll of Medical Errors UHF co-sponsored a screening of the documentary To Err is Human, which spotlights the crisis of medical errors, and solutions. Every year in the United States, some 440,000 ...

Despite Concerted Effort to Roll Back ACA in Washington, New York's Individual Market Largely Held Its Ground in 2017 But Signs of “Wear and Tear” Suggest Need for State Action to Put Market on Sounder Footing NEW YORK, NEW YORK ...

Small Primary Care Practices Demonstrate New Framework Can Help Patients Access High-Quality Behavioral Health Care A year-long project demonstrated that small primary care practices can help fill this gap by screening patients for depression and coordinating their mental health, medical ...

“Every Home a Potential Hospital” The challenges of family caregivers are explored in the new Home Alone Revisited report. Challenges of family caregivers explored in Home Alone Revisited report A new report reveals that half of the nation's 40 million ...

It’s About Trust: How Pediatricians Can Screen Children for Social Factors Pediatricians seeking to address the social and economic concerns that can affect the health of their young patients must first build trusting relationships with parents. Low-income parents are ...

Families and Health Care Chronology 1996-2019 A timeline of UHF's many groundbreaking initiatives and publications since launching its Families and Health Care project in 1996. For an interview with Carol Levine, founding director of UHF's Families and Health Care Project ...

Q&A with Anne-Marie J. Audet: Putting Patients First Q&A with Ann-Marie Audet, MD, UHF's senior medical officer. A shorter version of this interview appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of Blueprint. Actively listening to patients should be an essential part ...

UHF and GNYHA Announce 12th Class of Clinical Quality Fellows Training a new class to become health care quality improvement leaders at their institutions 30 Physicians and Nurses Start Training to be Quality Improvement Experts New York, NY January 29 ...

As Consumers Seek Insurance Coverage During Pandemic, UHF Study Outlines Need to Upgrade NY’s “Off-Exchange” Market Report recommends a series of upgrades for New York’s “off-exchange” market for individuals. Report recommends removing barriers and improving tools to help ...

UHF Launches Campaign to Reach Uninsured New Yorkers During Pandemic UHF, in partnership with the NY State of Health Marketplace, is conducting an outreach campaign to inform underserved and non-English speaking communities about their options for obtaining health insurance. NEW ...

UHF 2020 Medicaid Conference Moves Online to Address “Fostering Equity in Time of Crisis” UHF’s annual Medicaid conference went ahead as planned on July 15 in a new format—some 250 people watched a live webcast. United Hospital Fund's ...

United Hospital Fund Launches Pediatrics Learning Network to Help Address Health, Social Needs of Young Children In New York State United Hospital Fund launched a new program, the Pediatrics for an Equitable Developmental Start Learning Network, designed to boost healthy ...

NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing Presents Anthony Shih, MD, with Humanitarian Award New York University Rory Meyers College of Nursing 2020 presented UHF president Anthony Shih MD with its 2020 Humanitarian Award. United Hospital Fund president Anthony Shih, MD ...

Next Step in Care Quarterly electronic publication providing an overview of UHF's work in in family caregiving.

A Look Back—and Ahead: UHF's 2017 Annual Report UHF's latest annual report highlights our work over the past year to build a more effective health care system for all New Yorkers. It's an interesting time for health policy, and ...

New York's Small Group Market Isn't Feeling Well-and a Trump Administration Proposal May Make Things Worse Analyzing the difficulties New York's small group insurance market faces in light of federal changes. A HealthWatch Brief New York's small group insurance market ...

Advancing the Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care for Small Practices Moving from theory to real world, a new grant-funded project is testing an innovative “continuum-based framework” that helps small and medium-sized groups of primary care providers integrate behavioral ...

Primary Care Quality Improvement Resource Compendia Supporting the quality improvement efforts of primary care practices in New York's APC program, two compendia of resources cover the 26 quality measures of the APC Core Measure Set. To support the quality improvement ...

Networks at the Nexus: Revisiting New York State's Provider Network Standards and Protections A health insurance brief examining consumer protections and network adequacy standards in New York and recommending a series of steps the State could take to ensure transparency ...

New York Counties by Population, Medicaid Enrollment, and Enrollment Rates (Table) County-level table listing the estimated percentage of population enrolled in Medicaid for at least one month between June 2015 and May 2016, for all counties in New York State ...

Patient-Reported Outcomes: Moving PROs Into Practice Pragmatic approaches to choosing the right Patient-Reported Outcomes instrument for a practice's clinical priorities, patient population, and resources are discussed in this webinar presentation from the PROPC-NY learning collaborative. Pragmatic approaches to choosing the ...

The Big Picture VI: New York's Private and Public Insurance Markets An overview of New York's insurance markets, analyzing enrollment and financial data across health plans and lines of business to create a comprehensive snapshot of the markets since implementation ...

New York's Temporary Premium Subsidies: Meeting Immediate Goals and Yielding Useful Lessons A snapshot brief on a temporary subsidy program implemented as part of the Affordable Care Act rollout-and lessons to be learned from this creative and effective program. With ...

The Next Wave: The Impact of Two New Proposed Mergers on New York's Health Insurance Market A Big Picture snapshot report examining two new proposed mergers of large health plans, focusing on the implications for New York markets. Policy changes ...

Levers of Change: UHF's 2015 Annual Report This year's annual report highlights how UHF's strategic use of resources to target key levers of change is helping move health care reform from theory to reality, to create concrete improvements in the ...

Setting the Stage for Payment Reform: Updating New York's Regulations on Risk Transfers Between Health Plans and Providers A timely look at New York's policies and regulations on risk-transfer agreements between insurance plans and health care providers, an increasingly common ...

Presentations from "Medicaid in New York: Transforming the Delivery System" See presentations from the 2015 United Hospital Fund conference “Medicaid in New York: Transforming the Delivery System.” The presentations below were featured components of the United Hospital Fund conference Medicaid ...

A Blueprint for Universal Health Insurance Coverage in New York The first comprehensive analysis of the elements needed for universal health insurance in New York State, this major new Fund publication presents the costs and benefits of several model strategies ...

Antibiotic Stewardship for Acute Respiratory Infections: The Milstein Toolkit for Ambulatory Care Practices A practical collection of tools for organizations developing outpatient antibiotic stewardship programs. Includes data collection tools and surveys, as well as overviews of interventions implemented, lessons learned ...