FINAL 2024 Tribute Journal - Flipbook - Page 11
Improving Quality
We work tirelessly to improve quality, patient safety, and unacceptable inequities in
health care.
Through our Clinical Quality Fellowship Program, we have trained more than 300
physicians and nurses to date—from more than 50 area hospitals and health care
organizations—to lead quality improvement and patient safety efforts at their
institutions. Their work is saving lives and improving care.
Our work with New York nursing homes is spreading best practices and addressing
“medication overload”— one of the biggest contributors to cognitive impairment in
the elderly.
And UHF’s Quality and Equity Task Force brings together New York leaders to develop and
share strategies to ensure equity is prioritized in the delivery of high-quality health care.
Fostering Clinical-Community Partnerships
Optimal health cannot be achieved by the health care system alone.
Stressors, such as inadequate housing, poor nutrition, and poverty, compound illness.
UHF is working to create a more comprehensive approach to health care by building
alliances between clinicians, social service agencies, and community partners to help
New Yorkers live long, healthy, and productive lives.
A special focus is the hundreds of thousands of New York children growing up in poverty.
We are working with pediatric practices across the state to reduce inequities in
childhood—with a goal of optimal child development for lifelong health and wellbeing.
Expanding Insurance Coverage and Access to Care
New York’s Medicaid program covers more than 7 million low-income New Yorkers,
while more than a million remain uninsured.
UHF’s Medicaid Institute provides trusted research and analyses to state leaders, helping
them develop new programs and spread innovations that can strengthen this critical
safety net. And our Health Insurance Project is addressing complex issues that stand
between New Yorkers and the affordable, quality health care coverage they need.
