Reports
Quality Collaborative, Winter 2011/2012
This issue highlights the first-year achievements of our STOP Sepsis Collaborative. Our guest column features a commentary by the chair of our Perinatal Safety Collaborative, underscoring the importance of hospital senior leadership in effecting culture change. The issue also includes an article about a recent ultrasound training program and an interview with a graduate from our Clinical Quality Fellowship Program.
Passive/Active: Defining the Role for a Health Benefit Exchange in the Interests of New Yorkers
A new Fund report carefully examines the roles New York’s health benefit exchange should play, ranging from a passive marketplace with the free market alone determining the quantity and scope of offerings, to an active purchaser. Fourth in a series of reports on the health benefit exchange.
Improving Transitional Care by Involving Family Caregivers
This presentation by Carol Levine, on the Fund’s Transitions in Care Quality Improvement Collaborative (TC-QuIC), was delivered on October 28, 2011, at a session of the National Health Policy Forum.
New Directions
New directions. Innovation. Fundamental change. Those imperatives are an essential part of the Fund's work, as highlighted in the 2011 annual report.
Measuring Quality for Complex Medicaid Beneficiaries in New York
This new Medicaid Institute report points to the importance of quality measurement for Medicaid beneficiaries with complex needs — specifically those with multiple chronic conditions, behavioral health conditions, and long-term care needs — as a means of improving care but also as a tool to advance the state’s strategies of reimbursement reform and service delivery redesign for vulnerable and high-cost populations.
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.
Pesentations from the 2011 Annual Research Symposium
These presentations were delivered at the 22nd Annual Symposium on Health Care Services in New York: Research and Practice.
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.
Two into One: Merging Markets and Exchanges under the Affordable Care Act
This Fund report focuses on two discretionary decisions New York faces under the Affordable Care Act: first, merging the health benefit exchanges for individuals and small businesses, and second, merging the individual and Small Group markets. Through analysis of different scenarios, the report presents estimates of the premium change that would result from setting rates for these populations based on the combined experience of individuals and groups.
Health Insurance Coverage in New York, 2009
This edition of the annual chartbook quantifies differences in insurance coverage and uninsurance around New York State and within New York City. Data are broken down into 14 separate regions across the state, including the five boroughs of New York City. Within the city itself, estimates are provided for 55 separate neighborhoods.
Blueprint, Summer 2011
Among the highlights of the summer 2011 issue of Blueprint is a cover story about an initiative that is bringing health care providers and family caregivers together to coordinate and improve patient transitions.
Medicaid Prescription Drugs: Purchasing and Management
This report explores the technical and policy decisions states can make when purchasing and managing prescription drugs in today’s Medicaid environment. It identifies best practices from around the nation and examines New York’s Medicaid prescription drug program in particular. The report also lays out how federal health reform affects the Medicaid drug benefit.
Quality Collaborative, Summer 2011
This issue highlights the upcoming Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Collaborative. The guest column features one hospital system executive’s view of the four key ways his organization’s values align with those of our quality collaboratives, allowing for “exponential improvements.” Other articles focus on a new training component of the Perinatal Safety Collaborative and the project of one of the graduates of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program to streamline medication refills.
New York's Medicaid Expansion of 2000-2010
This presentation by Michael Birnbaum was delivered at the Medicaid Congress in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2011.
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