Improving Quality of Care: Grants
Preventable Hospital Readmission Initiative
To assist seven hospitals in their efforts to study targeted groups of readmitted patients through analysis of data, charts reviews, and interviews with patients, their family caregivers, and community-based physicians in order design effective interventions.
Beth Israel Medical Center
To establish the Chinese Caregiver Volunteer Support Program to improve the quality of life of Chinese family caregivers, by recruiting, training, and deploying groups of older Chinese volunteers to provide needed assistance, and to determine the feasibility of this innovative model for meeting the needs of underserved and culturally isolated caregivers.
IPRO
To implement a New York State health system performance scorecard. (A previous grant supported the design of this scorecard.)
Jewish Home Lifecare
To advance culture change by focusing on quality-of-life issues and evaluating improvements, with elder and family satisfaction data generated from “My Inner View,” a national performance improvement survey instrument.
IPRO
To design a scorecard to measure and monitor cost, quality, access, equity, and other dimensions of health system performance at a community level throughout New York State.
New York City AIDS Fund
To support an AIDS grantmaking collaborative in New York City that seeks to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS and improve services for those persons already infected.
Breastfeeding Friendly Hospital Initiative
To provide a second year of funding to support and expand the work of the two hospitals in implementing, promoting, and evaluating the effectiveness of New York City’s “Breastfeeding Friendly Hospital Initiative.”
The Center to Advance Palliative Care
To assess the practice of palliative care in New York City hospitals and to summarize the findings in a report that includes recommendations on improving the quality, practice, and reach of palliative care programs in the city.
GNYHA Foundation
To produce two training videos that will sustain and extend the achievements of the Rapid Response System Collaborative and the Perinatal Safety Collaborative, two components of the Fund’s joint quality improvement initiatives with Greater New York Hospital Association.
Visiting Nurse Service of New York
To plan and pilot test a program to provide enhanced services and support to family caregivers, and to integrate United Hospital Fund’s Next Step in Care materials into VNSNY’s home care services.
Montefiore Medical Center
To develop and implement an inter-institutional electronic palliative care record that will enhance communication and timely transfer of critical clinical information for patients who are at the end of life.
Breastfeeding Friendly Hospital Initiative
To expand the work of two hospitals in developing, promoting, and evaluating the effectiveness of programs
that promote breastfeeding.
Isabella Geriatric Center
To test a group therapy intervention for reducing depression, anxiety, and agitation among nursing home residents with moderate dementia.
The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center
To support eight hospitals’ sponsorship of Schwartz Center Rounds – a forum in which clinicians can address the social and emotional issues they deal with in taking care of patients – and to assist the Center in its strategic expansion efforts.
Commission on the Public's Health System
To produce a report, based on interviews with parents and youth, documenting obstacles to health care access for children in low-income communities. At least 200 families across all five boroughs will be surveyed about their experiences within the health care system. The resulting analysis will appear in a report, Community Voices, highlighting problems experienced by families, gaps and barriers to care, and areas where the system is working well.
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