JHF Board Invites Perspectives from New Board Members

Board members provide brief introductions during their first meeting.

During the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) April 1 meeting of the Board of Trustees, the spotlight was placed on new faces on the JHF and Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) Boards to learn how their work and insights could help advance the JHF focus areas.

Members discussed engagement, how their work drew them to accept board memberships and the commitments they hope to bring in support of the Foundation's activist philanthropy.

Joining the Board of Trustees for a panel discussion were new Board members Debra Brodine, MHA, MBA, president of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital and Western Behavioral Health, and president of UPMC's Senior Services; Evan Rosenberg, market president and publisher of the Pittsburgh Business Times; and Ken Segel, MBA, CEO of Value Capture. Brodine serves on the Board and is its representative to Health Careers Futures. Rosenberg is on JHF's Board and Segel is new to the Board of PRHI.

Segel discussed the history of Value Capture and the ways it continues to redefine safety. He praised the Foundation's efforts to raise awareness of the region's strengths in safety generally and patient safety. Brodine shared the many new focus areas for UPMC's work in senior care and behavioral health, emphasizing its advocacy orientation for those populations. Rosenberg drew on years of experience in communications to counsel the Foundation to "be vigilant to your audiences and reach them as often as you can."