National Analysis Reveals Growing Adolescent Behavioral Health Crisis, Rising Unmet Need—and the Ripple Effects on Education, Family Economics, Health, and Productivity Only 39% of U.S. adolescents who experienced a major depressive episode in 2021 received care The ripple effects of …
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 …
NYC PHIP Small Practice Project A report from the New York City Population Health Improvement Program examining a shared-services model that could help small practices serve as medical homes and succeed in value-based payment arrangements. Read the related press release. …
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 …
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 …
NYS Primary Care Core Measure Set Aiding practices in New York State's Advanced Primary Care program, the New York State Core Measure Set consists of 28 measures providing multipayer performance data across six domains. The New York State Primary Care …
Caring for Your Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC): A Guide for Patients and Family Caregivers With growing numbers of hospitalized patients being sent home with central lines in place, safely maintaining these common home care devices often falls to home …
A Strategy for Expanding and Improving the Impact of the Medical Home Across New York City A strategic plan for New York City to adopt the medical home model, which improves health care quality, improves patients' experience of care, and …
Presentations from "Medicaid in New York: Progressing to Value-Based Payment" Read and hear featured components of the United Hospital Fund conference “Medicaid in New York: Progressing to Value-Based Payment.” The keynote and panel below were two of the featured components …
Value-Based Payment Models for Medicaid Child Health Services Prepared by Bailit Health for UHF and the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy, this report lays out both the rationale and framework for value-based payments for children's health care in New …
You Get What You Pay for: Measuring Quality in Value-Based Payment for Children's Health Care Examining the quality measures and outcomes that could be used in value-based payment arrangements for children's health care in New York: how value for children …
Affordable Care Act Brings New Life-and Covered Lives-to New York's Individual Market A snapshot report examining the successful steps New York took to improve its individual health insurance market after the rollout of the ACA, and the steps that will …
A New Arena for Reducing Antibiotic Misuse: Outpatient Care Health Affairs Blog reports on United Hospital Fund's new Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative. United Hospital Fund's Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative-an effort to improve antibiotic prescribing practices, notable for its focus on …
Meeting Consumers Where They Are: Patient Engagement in New York's Evolving Commercial Insurance Market With the number of uninsured rapidly dropping under the ACA, the focus is shifting to other goals-improving quality, the patient experience with care, and controlling costs …
Difficult Decisions About Post-Acute Care and Why They Matter First in a series of reports examining the challenges faced by patients and their families when arranging continued care after a hospital stay. Click here to access the press release. Each …
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 …
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 …
Recent Trends and Future Directions for the Medical Home Model in New York Fourth in a series of reports monitoring the growth of the medical home model in New York, as measured by the number of practices recognized as Patient-Centered …
Home Alone: Family Caregivers Providing Complex Chronic Care Results from a survey of family caregivers to determine what medical/nursing tasks they perform. Includes recommendations on encouraging health care professionals and providers to reassess the way they interact with caregivers, ensuring …
The Other Shoe Drops: Federal Association Health Plan Regulation Is Next Threat to Coverage in New York In this issue brief, we examine how the Trump administration's proposed rule on association health plans could destabilize New York's individual and small …
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 …
Home Alone Revisited: Family Caregivers Providing Complex Care New data on what family caregivers who perform medical and nursing tasks are experiencing. Half of the nation's 40 million family caregivers are performing complicated medical and nursing tasks, including giving injections, …
Complex Construction: A Framework for Building Clinical-Community Partnerships to Address Social Determinants of Health A UHF framework designed to help primary care providers screen their patients for social determinants of health and partner with community-based organizations that can respond to …
Sniffle, Sneeze... No Antibiotics, Please: Ambulatory Stewardship Strategies for Acute Respiratory Infections Presentation from an outpatient antibiotic stewardship meeting. A presentation from the launch of the UHF-funded outpatient antibiotic stewardship meeting was held on May 12, 2016. A presentation, Sniffle, …
Mile Marker or High-Water Mark? Tracking New York's Progress in Covering the Uninsured A HealthWatch brief on New York’s progress in covering the uninsured, and obstacles to reaching the 1.1 million who still lack health insurance. This work was supported …
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 …
A Year of Impact: UHF's 2019 Annual Report UHF’s annual report covers our priorities and accomplishments in a busy and productive year. To address complex and evolving challenges in health care and to maximize our own effectiveness, UHF focuses on …
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 …
A Gift for 2020 Grads: Enhanced Premium Subsidies for Student Loan Debtors Exploring how a tax credit for health insurance premiums tied to student debt payments might work. The related press release can be found here. Graduates from the class …
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 …
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 …
Op-Ed: Congress' Health Care Reform Fails New York's Children The potentially devastating consequences of the proposed American Health Care Act for New York's children are discussed by Suzanne Brundage, program director, Children's Health Initiative, and Patricia S. Levinson Fellow at …
Can a Medicare Beneficiary Assigned to Observation Services Appeal the Decision? “Observation” instead of “inpatient” status can cost patients and their families thousands of dollars, both for their hospital stays and following rehab services. A decision allowing a class action …
Interest in Early Childhood Health Leads to Three Funders Working Together UHF, the Altman Foundation, and The New York Community Trust model grantmaker collaboration with their joint Partnerships for Early Childhood Development initiative. This commentary, written by Suzanne Brundage of …
Why UHF is Spearheading Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts Why UHF expanded its antibiotic stewardship to the outpatient setting and to nursing homes. This year's flu season is the worst in almost a decade and still getting worse, according to federal officials. …
To Increase Value, Go Beyond Health Care Increasing the “value equation”—and overall health—requires going beyond the health care system to engage in effective clinical-community partnerships. One of the most vexing issues in the U.S. health care system is the value …
The “Last Mile” of Delivery System Innovation The "last mile" of delivery system innovation: the challenge of spreading promising practices throughout the health care system. The last mile problem generally refers to the difficulty of delivering goods or services to …
Health Insurance: Rethinking Goals Amid Interrupted Progress Re-evaluating health insurance coverage goals and confronting fundamental inequity and unfairness during the COVID-19 pandemic. Times of crisis can bring clarity to fundamental problems. While we've witnessed the heroic actions of many health …
Emergency Department Visits in the Age of COVID: Some Lessons Learned Yves Duroseau, MD, MPH, chairman of emergency medicine at Lenox Hill Hospital, examines how emergency department use may have been affected by the coronavirus. Disclaimer: The views presented here …
Helping the Asian American Community Recover from the Devastation of COVID-19 Disclaimer: The views presented here are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of United Hospital Fund, its staff, or its board of directors. January 2020 …
Heading Home from a Skilled Nursing Facility: Interventions and Tools for Improving the Transition This report and toolkit describes the UHF Skilled Nursing Facility Learning Collaborative's work, profiles several interventions undertaken by the participating facilities, and provides resources for SNFs …
Recovering Language Lost to Aphasia: One Syllable, One Movement at a Time This book review by UHF senior fellow Carol Levine explores issues of communication in caregiving and health care, specifically related to the issue of aphasia. This condition has …
The Pandemic’s Most Important Lesson: A Call for Bold Change Disclaimer: The views presented here are of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of United Hospital Fund, its staff, or its board of directors. This commentary is …
The Ripple Effects of the Adolescent Behavioral Health Crisis: Recent Trends and Impacts on American Adolescents, Families, and Society A new UHF analysis in partnership with Boston Consulting Group reveals the vast and growing toll of the adolescent behavioral health …