Recent News, Commentary & Feature Stories

United Hospital Fund Provides $390,000 for Grants to Improve Health Services in New York City

Release Date: 11.06.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

Among the initiatives funded through these nine grants is a program to increase rates of breastfeeding in New York City by helping hospitals improve practices and policies.

Jim Tallon: Opportunities in a Changing Health Care World

Release Date: 10.10.2012
Contact: Robert de Luna

The year covered in the 2012 annual report has been the most remarkable, for health policy, in 40 years, and Fund activities mirror, and have helped shape, the changes being wrought.

New Report Finds Almost Half of Family Caregivers Perform Medical and Nursing Tasks

Release Date: 10.01.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

United Hospital Fund Honors Three Leaders at Its Gala for Their Work to Improve Health Care

Release Date: 10.01.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

The United Hospital Fund paid tribute to Karen Davis, Elizabeth J. McCormack, and Josh N. Kuriloff at its annual gala, held this evening at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

New Report Takes First-of-Its-Kind Look at Frequent Users of New York City's Emergency Departments

Release Date: 09.10.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

A Fund report provides a first-of-its-kind examination of patterns of emergency department utilization in New York City hospitals at the individual patient level.

United Hospital Fund Analysis Finds That 2010 Was a Positive Year for New York's Health Plans

Release Date: 08.21.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

The fourth installment of the United Hospital Fund’s Big Picture series examines enrollment and financial results for 2010 in New York’s public and private insurance markets, as well as the impact of the Affordable care Act on these markets.

Jim Tallon: Philanthropy and the ACA: Helping People Engage in Their Own Health and Health Care

Release Date: 08.07.2012
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This commentary written by Fund President Jim Tallon was originally published on August 2, 2012, by Health Affairs GrantWatch Blog.

United Hospital Fund Provides $317,000 for Grants to Improve Health Services in New York City

Release Date: 07.02.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

The United Hospital Fund today announced six grants totaling $317,000 to improve health care services in New York City.

Jim Tallon: Groundhog Day 2013

Release Date: 06.22.2012
Contact: Robert de Luna

Innovative changes may be bringing us to the edge of a new experience in care, says Jim Tallon in his Spring/Summer Blueprint essay.

United Hospital Fund Report Informs Important State Decision on "Essential Health Benefits"

Release Date: 05.31.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

Community Partnership Launched in Washington Heights and Inwood to Benefit Seniors with Diabetes

Release Date: 05.15.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

A new community partnership in Washington Heights and Inwood to help seniors (60 and over) with diabetes to live well, Together on Diabetes is launched on May 15, 2012.

United Hospital Fund Honors 28 Trustees from New York Area Hospitals

Release Date: 05.07.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna
The United Hospital Fund presented Distinguished Trustee Awards to 28 trustees from metropolitan area hospitals.

Carol Levine: Family Caregiving Myths, Past and Present

Release Date: 04.05.2012
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This commentary written by Carol Levine was originally published on February 21, 2012, by Vitamin W.

United Hospital Fund's Fredda Vladeck Receives M. Powell Lawton Quality of Life Award for Transforming Communities into Good Places to Grow Old

Release Date: 03.26.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna
Fredda Vladeck received the 2012 M. Powell Lawton Quality of Life Award from the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging for her pioneering work in transforming communities into good places to grow old.

Fredda Vladeck: Community Matters: Rethinking an Aging Society

Release Date: 03.26.2012
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This keynote was delivered by Fredda Vladeck, director of the Aging in Place Initiative, on March 26, 2012,  at a Philadelphia Corporation for Aging conference on urban aging.