A retired U.S. Army colonel, director of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Military Medical Research, and Professor of Medicine in Pitt's Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Ron Poropatich has play...
Project & Program Updates
PITTSBURGH, PA – Proposals are being sought from interested and qualified Pennsylvania organizations for projects between $15,000 - $100,000 per year for up to two years providing food-is-medicine style programs to make healthy, nutrit...
The work of the National Patient Safety Board Advocacy Coalition was highlighted at the July 13th Congressional briefing at the Rayburn House Office in Washington, DC with a discussion on the alarming downturn in patient safety measure...
"Ready to Impact," the 2023 Pioneer Network/Green House Project Center for Innovation Conference, held July 23–26 at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel and Conference Center, provided several opportunities to showcase the Jewi...
On July 27, the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) Board convened to discuss the progress and next steps of the Patient Safety Technology Challenge and share how lessons learned on a study tour to Norway and Finland can infor...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) explores the innovative models Australia is employing to address the current teen mental health crisis in its first episode of the Global Health Wavelengths videocast. The episode is hosted ...
The teen mental health crisis and its impact on youth and systems of care was recently highlighted in an op-ed published in the Pittsburgh Business Times. "It's Time to Invest in Our Youth," written by Jewish Healthcare Foundation Pres...
A new format of the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative this year is regional meetings, which are being held throughout the year to convene hospital-based healthcare teams with community-based organizations and agencies ...
Karen Wolk Feinstein Featured in RamaOnHealthcare Discussing Activist Philanthropy and Medical Error
On July 13, RamaOnHealthcare published an interview with Karen Feinstein on her perspectives to make health care safer, healthcare leadership, activist philanthropy, and needed innovations in health care. Read more here.
For the third year, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's (PRHI's) Jennifer Condel, manager of Lean Healthcare Strategy, and Bruce Block, MD, PRHI health care quality consultant, taught the course "Health Care Quality" which is a par...
The 19th annual Patient Safety Fellowship hosted by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and Health Careers Futures is looking toward the future in a different way this summer. The newly minte...
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced new winners at the TeenTech Awards held in London, United Kingdom (UK) on June 30th. To launch the new category, TeenTech ran a live virtual event in December 2022 to explain the challe...
Three 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...
Karen Wolk Feinstein was featured on The Pre-Accident Podcast hosted by safety culture expert Todd Conklin. The podcast hosts discussions on human performance, systems safety, and safety culture, and Dr. Feinstein shared insights into ...
The Dementia Friends Pennsylvania staff collaborated with Dementia Action Alliance and their team of authors living with dementia on their newest publication Cooking Our Way: A Cookbook By and For People Living with Dementia released t...
The HealthChoices Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Northeastern Pennsylvania Learning Collaborative session was held Wednesday, July 12 at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel in Scranton focusing on the social determinants of hea...
As a child, Mike Becich had an inquisitive mind and a passion for electron microscopes. That passion led him to become a first-generation college student and a renowned pathologist. "When I arrived (at Northwestern University), the fir...
The Behavioral Health (BH) Fellows program welcomed its inaugural 27-person cohort on June 13 at Phipps Conservatory as part of a one-and-a-half-day retreat. County Executive Rich Fitzgerald joined the cohort to kick off the progr...
Too Hot For July, AIDS Free Pittsburgh's (AFP) annual biomedical awareness event, gathered 1,500 community members on June 1 in block party style to recognize, commemorate, and celebrate the communities affected by HIV and raise awaren...
The 19th annual Patient Safety Fellowship launched on May 31st to help inspire and equip students and innovators to reimagine safer care. This year's 37 fellows have been challenged to start from a patient/family perspective and redesi...