With statewide partners, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation helped to launch a Maternal Health Policy Collaborative to develop a prioritized list of recommendations for private and public stakeholders to rally around in 2024. Over ...
Project & Program Updates
The Teen Mental Health Collaborative gathered on December 11th at Allegheny Family Network for the final quarterly meeting of the year. Thirty-five participants representing 18 youth-serving organizations, nonprofits offering mental he...
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced the winners of Hack the Nest and OSF Healthcare's Patient Safety Technology Trailblazer, sponsored events that took place this month. Hack the Nest, the DC, Maryland, Virginia (DMV) are...
Four new competitions and one returning competition, Bench to Bedside, have been added to the Patient Safety Technology Challenge for 2024. Funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health I...
During her seven years at JHF, Pauline Taylor, CQIA has supported the Patient Centered Medical Home initiative, Centers of Excellence project, served as a quality improvement coach in the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative (P...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Fellowship Alumni Spotlight series showcases some of the many incredible alumni of the Feinstein Fellowships. Callum Harding is a Data Engineer at Holmusk where he works to aggregate, standardize, and...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation spoke with two longtime collaborators and current members of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Advisory Board to discuss the potential for Pittsburgh as a...
PITTSBURGH, PA – The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved over $1,700,000 in grants, including funds for supporting teen mental health initiatives, addressing women's health inequities as they age, activating Families USA's Heal...
Over 100 students from 10 counties traveled to Harrisburg on November 15 to participate in a Student Mental Health Advocacy Day at the Pennsylvania Capitol. JHF's PA Youth Advocacy Network worked with legislative champions, more than 1...
In response to reports of increased antisemitism on university and college campuses throughout the U.S. and growing anxiety among Jewish students, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has approved $135,000 in emergency grants to Hill...
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced the winners of the 12 sponsored events that took place since the last week of October, the greatest number of awards for patient safety technology innovation ever in a four-week pe...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation was a lead sponsor of the "Augmented Ingenuity: AI for Patient Safety" conference held November 6-8 at the Marriott Hotel University Park in Salt Lake City, Utah, a convening of leaders in artificial in...
The November 16 RAPS Salon highlighted some of the patient safety research at the University of Pittsburgh and how it is working with UPMC to become a laboratory for research, discovery, and commercialization of patient safety innovati...
During an unprecedented public health crisis facing the mental health system, the time is now for overdue mental health reforms. With a President and Governor committed to improving the mental health system, this year's Salk Health Act...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) completed its second Death and Dying Series for Healthcare Professionals on November 13. This program, inspired by the popular Death and Dying Fellowship for graduate students, was designed to enh...
The staffing crisis that continues to plague nursing homes is only exacerbated by the shrinking pipeline of nursing school graduates into the long-term care setting. Students continue to have limited exposure to geriatrics coursework, ...
Allegheny County Executive-elect Sara Innamorato announced on November 29 that Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein has been named to her transition team as a Co-Chair of the Healthy Families & High-Q...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Women's Health Activist Movement global (WHAMglobal) are grateful for the many collaborators that have worked on making Pittsburgh a safer place to give birth over the past three years during the Pi...
The Pennsylvania Health Funders Collaborative (PHFC)—a network of over 20 health foundations across PA that works at the intersection of health philanthropy and policy—held its 17th Annual Conference in mid-November. PHFC is co-chaired...
You are invited to attend AIDS Free Pittsburgh's next event "The Category is…RED – A World AIDS Day Event" to be held at the Union Project, 801 N. Negley Ave., Pittsburgh from 5-10 p.m. Friday, December 1. World AIDS Day, designated on...