Karen Wolk Feinstein’s Viewpoint in the Pittsburgh Business Times: “Regional Solution Needed to Address Workforce Shortages”

The current nursing shortage, the interconnectedness of workers' personal safety and patient safety, and the acute decline in the number of nursing assistants in skilled nursing facilities was recently highlighted in an op-ed published...
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Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania Webinar Focuses on Recentering Sex and Sexuality for People Living with Dementia

Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania kicked off a new webinar series with "Recentering Sex & Sexuality for People Living with Dementia" on February 8. Led by Emily Franke, LSW, MSW, a program associate for the Jewish Healthcare Foundatio...
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2023 Teen Mental Health Advocacy Series Begins

The PA Youth Advocacy Network, a program of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, launched the 2023 Teen Mental Health Advocacy Series on February 1.The second annual series aims to connect Pennsylvania high school students with advocacy s...
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PA Youth Advocacy News: Youth Wins Leadership Award, Teens Featured on Podcast, and Panelists Discuss Ways to Amplify Youth Voice

PA Youth Advocacy Network youth advocate Mohammad Shedeed is the Pennsylvania NAMI 2023 Youth Mental Health Leadership Award essay contest winner. Shedeed, a senior at South Fayette High School, wrote about the mental health stigma he ...
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JHF Welcomes Three New Staff Members

Lisa Boyd is the administrative associate for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and its supporting organizations—the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), Health Careers Futures (HCF), and the Women's Health Activist Movement Gl...
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Fellowship Alumni Spotlight: Mike Stancil

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation is launching a new spotlight series to showcase some of the many incredible alumni of the Feinstein Fellowships. Over the past 17 years, over 1,200 individuals have participated in a Feinstein Fellowshi...
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Daughter of Staffer Job Shadows at JHF

Teagan Turcsanyi, a freshman at Hampton High School and daughter of Director of Technology Brian Turcsanyi and former Senior Research Analyst Colleen Vrbin (PRHI 2008 - 2012), visited the Foundation as part of her job shadowing require...
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Serial entrepreneur Bryan Kaplan Reflects on the Challenges and Promise of Growing the Technology Sector in Pittsburgh

Bryan Kaplan is a technology executive, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor with more than 27 years of experience in driving business strategy, leading cross-functional teams, and facilitating enterprise change management across th...
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JHF Approves over $1.9M in Grants, Including Funding for Patient Safety Innovation and to Support Inspiring Health Journalism

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved over $1.9 million in grants, including funding for patient safety research at the University of Pittsburgh, new funding for the creation of a documentary highlighting patient safety innov...
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New National Patient Safety Board Video Promotes the Need to Make Health Care as Safe as Flying

It's time for a National Patient Safety Board and to kick start the new year, the NPSB Advocacy Coalition released a 30-second video calling viewers to take action to support the creation of an NPSB. The goal of the video is to inform ...
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Death and Dying Fellowship Kicks Off

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF)'s 2023 Feinstein Fellowship on Death and Dying returned on January 23 with its first in-person session since 2020, held at the JHF offices in Downtown Pittsburgh. This year's fellowship welcomes 2...
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PA Youth Advocacy Network Convenes Youth-Led Meetings with Two Legislative Offices to Discuss Teen Mental Health

To kickstart the new year, youth advocates from the PA Youth Advocacy Network organized two virtual meetings with representatives to discuss bills they sponsored related to teen mental health. Youth advocates from across Pennsylvania m...
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Karen Wolk Feinstein and Value Capture CEO Ken Segel Discuss Why the U.S. Needs an NPSB

Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein and Value Capture CEO and founding director of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (PRHI) Ken Segel discussed why federal action is critical to address preve...
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PA PQC December Quarterly Meeting Underscores the Successes and Year Ahead 

The Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative's (PA PQC) December 14th quarterly learning session gathered representatives of 56 PA PQC birthing hospitals comprising 81% of live births in PA, to discuss the success of 2022...
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PA Long-Term Care Learning Network Introduces New Partnerships with IHI to Improve Nursing Home Quality

On January 19, the Pennsylvania Long-Term Care Learning Network kicked off the first quarter of programming for the year. The selected theme for the quarter will focus on introducing participants to Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) a...
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Four Patient Safety Awards Added to National Competitions

Four additional competitions are participating in the Patient Safety Technology Challenge funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative: TreeHacks at Stanford University, Hollo...
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Osher “Closure” Course Provides End-of-Life Education to Older Adults

 For the fifth year, Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF's) end-of-life staff are leading a class at Carnegie Mellon University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. "Closure: Discussing the Last Chapter" is adapted from the J...
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Meet the Future: JHF Attends 2023 CES Digital Health Summit

Since 2009, the most influential players in healthcare innovation and technology, including the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, have also traveled to CES for its Digital Health Summit in search of innovative ways technology can enhance h...
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Allegheny County Medical Society Highlights PA POLST Legislation

In a recent post on The Allegheny County Medical Society's ACMS Insights, Jewish Healthcare Foundation senior communications and program specialist Lisa George, MPH, CHES, outlined the current Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Tr...
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JHF Welcomes Two New Members and One Returning to Board

 The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) recently welcomed two new Board members Nancy Washington, Med, MD, PhD and Anantha Shekhar, MD, PhD. It also welcomed its returning member Evan Indianer. Each will serve a three-year term. A...
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