Quality Improvement: News

United Hospital Fund Provides $365,000 for Grants to Improve Health Servcies in New York City

Release Date: 03.11.2013
Contact: Bob de Luna

Among the projects funded are two pioneering multi-hospital initiatives, one to improve the day of transition from hospital to home care or rehab and the other to reduce the incidence of serious infections in home care patients receiving infusions of chemotherapy or other medications

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.

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.

Jim Tallon: A New York Take on Global Challenges

Release Date: 02.06.2012
Contact: Bob de Luna

How do we create the health system change the economic outlook requires? Commentary by Fund President Jim Tallon.

Jim Tallon: New Directions

Release Date: 12.06.2011
Contact: Robert de Luna

In his 2011 annual report vision statement, Fund president Jim Tallon focuses on the “innovation imperative”—and highlights recent Fund achievements that exemplify just that.

New Collaborative Focuses on Clinical Leadership

Release Date: 03.09.2009
Contact: Bob de Luna
Building upon the success of the United Hospital Fund and Greater New York Hospital Association collaborative model, the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program is designed to develop new clinical talent to lead quality improvement initiatives and prepare the next generation of quality leaders.