Changing with the Times Anthony Shih, MD, reflects on the successes, challenges, and lessons learned during his tenure as president of United Hospital Fund. Anthony Shih, MD, will step down as president of United Hospital Fund after five years at …
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 …
Reducing the Risk: Year 1 Report of the Polypharmacy in Nursing Homes Learning Collaborative A UHF report details promising results of a partnership with six nonprofit, New York-area skilled nursing homes that focused on safe “deprescribing”—decreasing the use of potentially …
“Medicalizing” Social Needs Is a Band-Aid and Not a Cure Twenty years ago, I left clinical practice for public health. I was tired of fighting against the outsized role that inadequate housing and a lack of access to healthy food, …