FINAL 2024 Tribute Journal - Flipbook - Page 14
Excellence in Health Care Award for
Quality Improvement Champions
ABOUT THE AWARD
The Excellence in Health Care Award for Quality Improvement Champions was
established by United Hospital Fund in 2019 to honor extraordinary personal
leadership to improve quality of care, patient safety, and patient experience.
Honorees are selected annually by hospitals and health systems, nursing
homes and long-term care organizations, federally qualified health centers,
mental health and social services organizations, and medical groups across the
greater New York metropolitan region for their vision and accomplishments.
Through this awards program, United Hospital Fund intends to recognize
and nourish health care innovation and improvement aimed at achieving
the highest quality patient care.
Today’s 67 honorees represent 64 organizations from New York, New
Jersey, and Connecticut. They include 28 physicians, 21 nurses and nurse
practitioners, and other clinical and administrative leaders, pharmacists,
social workers, and public health and infection control experts. Their
quality improvement work spans the full continuum of health care.
THE QUALITY INSTITUTE AT UNITED HOSPITAL FUND
UHF’s Quality Institute, created in 2015, builds on more than a decade of
work with health care providers and other stakeholders across the New York
metropolitan area to improve the quality, safety, patient experience, and
efficiency of health care delivery.
Our work aims to align the efforts of agencies, payers, providers, and other
groups to advance high-quality, equitable care and better health outcomes.
Three strategic foci anchor our work:
• Profiling Quality. Advancing the use of better information for improving
health system transparency and performance.
• Building Capacity. Creating a network of skilled quality improvement
professionals, encouraging collaboration, and identifying promising
practices and helping to spread their adoption.
• Patient Engagement. Amplifying the voices of consumers, patients, and
families to promote effective quality improvement strategies and stronger
consumer-health care partnerships.