Health Care Finances: Publications
Hospital Watch Vital Signs, November 2011
In the first half of 2011, the New York City hospital inpatient census fell by 1.9 percent, while emergency department visits increased by 2.2 percent. This new issue of Hospital Watch Vital Signs reports on measures of city hospital utilization, finances, and staffing through June 2011.
The Patient-Centered Medical Home: Taking a Model to Scale in New York State
This report describes the Patient-Centered Medical Home model, reports on how the model is being adopted in pilots and demonstrations across New York State, and highlights the policy and pragmatic issues related to the model’s current implementation and the possibility of instituting it on a broader scale.
Emergency Department Use in Brooklyn by Neighborhood
This United Hospital Fund presentation to members of New York State's Medicaid Redesign Team on September 21, 2011, examines emergency department use in 11 distinct Brooklyn communities.
Hospital Watch Vital Signs, May 2011
In 2010, inpatient volume in New York City hospitals fell by 2.2 percent citywide, with declines in admissions concentrated among hospitals in financial distress. This issue of Hospital Watch Vital Signs also reports on other measures of financial stability in the city’s hospitals.
The Adirondack Medical Home Demonstration: A Case Study
This report describes the development and early successes of the Adirondack Medical Home Demonstration, and draws lessons that may be useful to other regions of the state and the entire nation.
Hospital Watch, February 2011
This new report finds a small improvement in the financial condition of the city’s nonprofit hospitals between 2006 and 2009, but this improvement was not experienced uniformly or by all, with safety net hospitals in particular experiencing severe financial distress.
Hospital Watch Vital Signs, December 2010
According to this issue of Hospital Watch Vital Signs, which tracks trends through June 2010, the number of discharges from New York City hospitals dropped by 4 percent in the first half of the year—almost entirely the result of three recent hospital closures. Despite those closures, full-time-equivalent staff declined by less than 1 percent citywide; excluding the three hospitals that closed, hospital staffing levels rose slightly.
A Multipayer Approach to Health Care Reform
This Fund report assesses the opportunities and challenges for multipayer collaborations to be critical agents of reform in health care delivery.
Rethink/Renew/Reshape/Reform
In this time of unprecedented urgency and opportunity, the Fund's 2010 annual report focuses on the clear links between our unique approach to shaping improved health care, our accomplishments of the past year, and the challenging road immediately ahead.
Blueprint, Spring 2010
The latest issue of Blueprint presents the Fund's new family caregiving quality improvement collaborative, commentary by Jim Tallon on post-reform imperatives, and a host of articles on Fund initiatives, grants, and events.
Hospital Watch Vital Signs, May 2010
According to this issue, which tracks trends through December 2009, the number of emergency department visits grew by 3.8 percent citywide in 2009.
The Financial Condition of the Leading Academic Medical Centers in New York City and the Nation
While academic medical centers have the best financial performance of any group of New York City hospitals, they have significantly lower margins than their peers in other states. This report examines the reasons driving this disparity, and compares data from four New York City academic medical centers to seventeen top academic medical centers elsewhere in the country.
Hospital Watch Vital Signs, December 2009
Tracking trends through June 2009, this issue reports that emergency department visits spiked in the first half of the year.
Vision/Accomplishment
The United Hospital Fund's 2009 annual report highlights the Fund's accomplishments over the past year and presents a vision—and imperatives—for the future of our health care system.
Rethinking Service Delivery for High-Cost Medicaid Patients
This report lays out the formidable challenges to improving care for certain high-cost Medicaid beneficiaries, focusing on those with multiple and substantial needs who rely disproportionately on costly hospital inpatient services.
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