The 20th annual Patient Safety Fellowship hosted by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF), Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), and Health Careers Futures. This summer's cohort includes 25 fellows from eight different academi...
Project & Program Updates
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) announced $225,000 in Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) initiative seed grants to support patient safety research and development in the Pittsburgh region. The seed grant program was estab...
On May 17, Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, gave a keynote address at the Ogden Surgical-Medical Society's annual conference in Ogden, UT, the l...
On May 20, Pittsburgh's ABC affiliate, WTAE, interviewed Jewish Healthcare Foundation's President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, for a story highlighting worsening patient safety trends both regionally and nationally. Dr. Feinstein...
National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) Advocacy Coalition member Families USA hosted a webinar on April 4 to highlight the problem of preventable medical harm and how the new bipartisan NPSB legislation is an essential part of the soluti...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has been steadily advancing its agenda in 2024 with priorities in each organizational focus area: patient safety, workforce development, women's health, senior and long-term care, HIV/AIDS, and te...
Patient safety advocacy efforts took center stage this month, as members of the National Patient Safety Board Advocacy Coalition, Patients for Patient Safety US, presented at two conferences to share the exciting efforts to address har...
To celebrate Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 10–16), the trailer to the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) forthcoming documentary The Pitch: Patient Safety's Next Generation was released online, and a private preview of the fil...
The Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) welcomed four new members to its board during a meeting held on March 12 at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh. In their remarks, Jewish Health Care Foundation (JHF) and P...
How are the next generation of innovators looking to disrupt the status quo and bring new perspectives to improving safety in health care? In this episode, host Karen Wolk Feinstein and young entrepreneur Reetam Ganguli, star of the do...
The March issue of Allegheny County Medical Society's (ACMS's) Bulletin featured an op-ed by Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) CEO and President Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, highlighting the scope of patient safety work being done by th...
National Patient Safety Board Will Address Preventable Medical Harm, the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S. U.S. Representatives Nanette Barragán (D-CA) and Michael Burgess (R-TX) have announced the reintroduction of the Nat...
On February 29, the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) and the Pittsburgh Technology Council convened 130 Pittsburgh leaders for the Safety Innovation Summit to discuss the region's long history of safety accomplishments and ...
The business of health care faces a multitude of challenges to rein in costs while improving on and delivering safe, high-quality care. How can improved safety and reducing avoidable hospitalizations play in the economic landscap...
How will today's technological advances empower patients in their health care and ease the strains on providers? What are the key actions that will make care safer, more accessible, and more affordable? Join host Jewish Healthcare Foun...
On January 24, Ariadne Labs announced the founding members of the JHF-funded Leadership and Innovation Network for the program entitled "Pathway to Accountability, Compassion, and Transparency" (PACT). PACT improves the way healthcare ...
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced the winners of three recent events. The NursesKnow Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced Crimson Medical Solutions as the winner of the $5,000 first prize on December 14. The Nu...
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...
The October 11 Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Research and Development Salon convened stakeholders from across the Pittsburgh region and beyond to highlight how current policy recommendations at the national level could grea...