How would you deploy cutting edge technology, out-of-the-box thinking, and interdisciplinary perspectives to reshape longstanding safety issues plaguing today's patients? Thirty graduate students and innovators spent the summer focused...
Project & Program Updates
The August 23 Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Research and Development Salon convened innovators, researchers, and technology entrepreneurs from across the Pittsburgh region to highlight regional research initiatives at Carne...
On August 23, the Health Careers Futures (HCF) Board convened to discuss the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) teen mental health initiatives, the Behavioral Health Fellows program, Feinstein Fellowships, Revisiting the Teaching Nur...
Allegheny Health Network's Immigrant & Refugee Doula Program, Hello Neighbor, The Mid-Atlantic Mothers' Milk Bank, and The Midwife Center for Birth & Women's Health will be the first recipients of maternal care innovation grant...
Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) was selected as one of 43 recipients nationally of the Centers for Disease Control's BOLD grants supporting public health programs to address Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), r...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Women's Health Activist Movement global (WHAMglobal) facilitated a collaborative project through the Perinatal Health Equity Champions Program between Igi Osé – Traditional Birth...
Four new competitions joined the Patient Safety Technology Challenge this month. Funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge fue...
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...
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Ryan White Learning Collaborative held their most recent session on August 15 at JHF, once again bringing together the various case managers and community health workers that serve people living with HIV (...
Kristen Brenneman, MSN will serve as the quality improvement facilitator for the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PA PQC), supporting the Foundation's efforts to advance the goals of the PA PQC healthcare teams. Brenneman ...
AIDS Free Pittsburgh and JHF welcome CJ Rosado as an intern of the HIV team. CJ is a second-year graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh studying social work. Last year, CJ had the opportunity to work with UPMC Children's Hosp...
A retired U.S. Army colonel, director of the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Military Medical Research, and Professor of Medicine in Pitt's Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Ron Poropatich has play...
PITTSBURGH, PA – Proposals are being sought from interested and qualified Pennsylvania organizations for projects between $15,000 - $100,000 per year for up to two years providing food-is-medicine style programs to make healthy, nutrit...
The work of the National Patient Safety Board Advocacy Coalition was highlighted at the July 13th Congressional briefing at the Rayburn House Office in Washington, DC with a discussion on the alarming downturn in patient safety measure...
"Ready to Impact," the 2023 Pioneer Network/Green House Project Center for Innovation Conference, held July 23–26 at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel and Conference Center, provided several opportunities to showcase the Jewi...
On July 27, the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) Board convened to discuss the progress and next steps of the Patient Safety Technology Challenge and share how lessons learned on a study tour to Norway and Finland can infor...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) explores the innovative models Australia is employing to address the current teen mental health crisis in its first episode of the Global Health Wavelengths videocast. The episode is hosted ...
The teen mental health crisis and its impact on youth and systems of care was recently highlighted in an op-ed published in the Pittsburgh Business Times. "It's Time to Invest in Our Youth," written by Jewish Healthcare Foundation Pres...
A new format of the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative this year is regional meetings, which are being held throughout the year to convene hospital-based healthcare teams with community-based organizations and agencies ...
Karen Wolk Feinstein Featured in RamaOnHealthcare Discussing Activist Philanthropy and Medical Error
On July 13, RamaOnHealthcare published an interview with Karen Feinstein on her perspectives to make health care safer, healthcare leadership, activist philanthropy, and needed innovations in health care. Read more here.