The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced winners of two sponsored events that took place in September. This month also marks the one-year anniversary of the Patient Safety Technology Challenge, and a brief video of the in...
Project & Program Updates
Each year, the Pittsburgh Technology Council hosts the TEQ Magazine State of the Industry Report Reveal party, highlighting what's in the forefront of the region's innovation sector. Not surprisingly, the panel at this year's event on ...
Governor Josh Shapiro has named workforce development as a top priority for his Administration, revamping the Pennsylvania Workforce Development Board and announcing in September the appointment of more than 40 members to guide its wor...
Join us for the Finale Gala for the Pittsburgh: A Safer Childbirth City initiative on the evening of Thursday, October 19 at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. At the event, you'll hear from critical community organizations supporting Black ...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation was a funder of the third annual Eradicate Hate Global Summit, the most comprehensive anti-hate conference in the world, held in Pittsburgh and virtually September 27-29. Born out of the Tree of Life ma...
Meagan Acrie is the new project accountant for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. Acrie will support finance needs across the Foundation's various programs. Before joining JHF, she worked for 13 years as a budget analyst in emergency se...
Looking back, most of Jim Jen's early jobs were computer related. Learning programming in high school, he spent his ninth-grade summer setting up and running a computer for a local business, creating spreadsheets to schedule the produc...
Eight new competitions joined the Patient Safety Technology Challenge this month. Funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge is desi...
PITTSBURGH, PA – The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved over $1,100,000 in grants, including funds for Precision Public Health Collaboratory, Phase II of the 10.27 Healing Partnership, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge 2...
How would you deploy cutting edge technology, out-of-the-box thinking, and interdisciplinary perspectives to reshape longstanding safety issues plaguing today's patients? Thirty graduate students and innovators spent the summer focused...
The August 23 Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Research and Development Salon convened innovators, researchers, and technology entrepreneurs from across the Pittsburgh region to highlight regional research initiatives at Carne...
On August 23, the Health Careers Futures (HCF) Board convened to discuss the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) teen mental health initiatives, the Behavioral Health Fellows program, Feinstein Fellowships, Revisiting the Teaching Nur...
Allegheny Health Network's Immigrant & Refugee Doula Program, Hello Neighbor, The Mid-Atlantic Mothers' Milk Bank, and The Midwife Center for Birth & Women's Health will be the first recipients of maternal care innovation grant...
Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) was selected as one of 43 recipients nationally of the Centers for Disease Control's BOLD grants supporting public health programs to address Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), r...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Women's Health Activist Movement global (WHAMglobal) facilitated a collaborative project through the Perinatal Health Equity Champions Program between Igi Osé – Traditional Birth...
Four new competitions joined the Patient Safety Technology Challenge this month. Funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge fue...
This short documentary, sponsored by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and produced by WQED, highlights the crisis in nursing with nurses sharing how they are being asked to care for more patients than they can safely manage, and viewer...
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Ryan White Learning Collaborative held their most recent session on August 15 at JHF, once again bringing together the various case managers and community health workers that serve people living with HIV (...
Kristen Brenneman, MSN will serve as the quality improvement facilitator for the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PA PQC), supporting the Foundation's efforts to advance the goals of the PA PQC healthcare teams. Brenneman ...
AIDS Free Pittsburgh and JHF welcome CJ Rosado as an intern of the HIV team. CJ is a second-year graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh studying social work. Last year, CJ had the opportunity to work with UPMC Children's Hosp...