The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has been steadily advancing its agenda in 2024 with priorities in each organizational focus area: patient safety, workforce development, women's health, senior and long-term care, HIV/AIDS, and te...
Project & Program Updates
In early April, Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) staff members Stacie Bonenberger, MOT, OTR/L, and Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, presented a Dementia Friends information session to 200 volunteers at the Pennsylvania Department of Ag...
The Pennsylvania Association of Directors of Nursing Administration (PADONA) held its annual conference in early April in Hershey, PA, where several Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) staff members gave presentations on its long-t...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Aging and HIV/AIDS teams were recently re-credentialed by SAGECare, the training division of the nation's largest advocacy and services organization for LGBTQ+ older adults SAGE. Staff completed onlin...
Women's Health Activist Movement Global (WHAMglobal) Board member Anne B. Newman, MD, MPH has received two prestigious awards for her decades-long research on aging and longevity. Dr. Newman is also a past member of the Jewish Healthca...
Dr. Neil Resnick got his start in the field of geriatric health serendipitously. Dr. Resnick received a bachelor's degree from Yale University and graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine. He did his internship and residen...
PITTSBURGH, PA – The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved $665,000 in grants, including funds to create programming to engage older adults at risk for or with early cognitive decline; initial funding to explore gender and income...
A meeting of the WHAMglobal Board on March 26 continued a review of themes and priorities jointly identified by participants at the Salzburg Seminar convened by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and WHAMglobal in January. Th...
In early March, Jewish Healthcare Foundation staff visited the Prime Time Adult Day Care in Bethel Park, PA, to learn more about successful care models to support community-dwelling older adults who some level of assistance. Prime Time...
JHF Nurse Project Manager Maureen Saxon-Gioia, MS HSA, BSN, RN, shared about the exciting progress being made by the Teaching Nursing Home Collaborative initiative at the annual AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medi...
In the past six months, the PA Teaching Nursing Home Collaborative (PA TNHC) has grown by nearly 20 schools of nursing and 40 nursing homes from across the Commonwealth. Led by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Health Careers Future...
Pennsylvanians are encouraged to submit comments to the state's "Aging Our Way, PA" draft plan now through March 20, 2024. The plan is the state's 10-year roadmap to empower its growing population of older adults through services and s...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and Women's Health Activist Movement Global (WHAMglobal) convened a Salzburg Seminar "Women as They Age: Addressing the Next Inequity Frontier" January 16-19 at Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, Calif...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation Chief Operating Officer and Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts, MBA was a guest on the Elevate Elder Care podcast to discuss "Revisiting – and Re-Energizing – Teaching Nursing Homes." Pr...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation Aging Initiatives Program Manager and Dementia Friends Pennsylvania Co-Lead Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, CECM was recently appointed as a board member of Voice of Inspired Change for Elders (VOICE), a non...
The staffing crisis that continues to plague nursing homes is only exacerbated by the shrinking pipeline of nursing school graduates into the long-term care setting. Students continue to have limited exposure to geriatrics coursework, ...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) staff Stacie Bonenberger, MOT, OTR/L and Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, CECM traveled to Harrisburg in mid-October to support the development of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging's Master Plan for Older...
At the 2023 Grantmakers in Aging Conference, held in Austin, Texas October 17–20, Jewish Healthcare Foundation COO and Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts, MBA had the opportunity to share with other funders in the aging space abou...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced two changes with significant implications for both the daily operations and overall health of the nursing home industry. CMS initiated changes to the required Mini...
This short documentary, sponsored by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and produced by WQED, highlights the crisis in nursing with nurses sharing how they are being asked to care for more patients than they can safely manage, and viewer...