PA PQC Regional Meetings Convene Healthcare Teams and Community Organizations to Strengthen Network of Support for Birthing People

 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 ...
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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.

PRHI Continues Work to Foster Understanding of Quality Improvement Strategies in Health Care

For the third year, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's (PRHI's) Jennifer Condel, manager of Lean Healthcare Strategy, and Bruce Block, MD, PRHI health care quality consultant, taught the course "Health Care Quality" which is a par...
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Patient Safety Challenge Fellowship Approaches Finale Expo on August 14

The 19th annual Patient Safety Fellowship hosted by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), Jewish Healthcare Foundation, and Health Careers Futures is looking toward the future in a different way this summer. The newly minte...
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New Patient Safety Technology Challenge Winners Announced in July

The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced new winners at the TeenTech Awards held in London, United Kingdom (UK) on June 30th. To launch the new category, TeenTech ran a live virtual event in December 2022 to explain the challe...
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Patient Safety Technology Challenge Announces Three New Competitions

Three 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 is desi...
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Karen Wolk Feinstein Featured on the Pre-Accident Investigation Podcast

Karen Wolk Feinstein was featured on The Pre-Accident Podcast hosted by safety culture expert Todd Conklin. The podcast hosts discussions on human performance, systems safety, and safety culture, and Dr. Feinstein shared insights into ...
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Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania Contributes to Dementia Cookbook

The Dementia Friends Pennsylvania staff collaborated with Dementia Action Alliance and their team of authors living with dementia on their newest publication Cooking Our Way: A Cookbook By and For People Living with Dementia released t...
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PRHI Continues Learning Sessions on Social Determinants Screening

The HealthChoices Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Northeastern Pennsylvania Learning Collaborative session was held Wednesday, July 12 at the Radisson Lackawanna Station Hotel in Scranton focusing on the social determinants of hea...
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Michael Becich and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Spearhead the Expanded Use of Data Sharing and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Patient Care

As a child, Mike Becich had an inquisitive mind and a passion for electron microscopes. That passion led him to become a first-generation college student and a renowned pathologist. "When I arrived (at Northwestern University), the fir...
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Behavioral Health Fellows Program Welcomes Inaugural Cohort

The Behavioral Health (BH) Fellows program welcomed its inaugural 27-person cohort on June 13 at Phipps Conservatory as part of a one-and-a-half-day retreat. County Executive Rich Fitzgerald joined the cohort to kick off the progr...
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AIDS Free Pittsburgh Takes to the Streets for Annual Too Hot for July Community Celebration

Too Hot For July, AIDS Free Pittsburgh's (AFP) annual biomedical awareness event, gathered 1,500 community members on June 1 in block party style to recognize, commemorate, and celebrate the communities affected by HIV and raise awaren...
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Patient Safety Challenge Fellowship Brings a $5,000 Competition to its Multidisciplinary Cohort

The 19th annual Patient Safety Fellowship launched on May 31st to help inspire and equip students and innovators to reimagine safer care. This year's 37 fellows have been challenged to start from a patient/family perspective and redesi...
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RAPS Seed Grant Program Opens Request for Proposals

The RAPS Seed Grant Program is now accepting proposals for multidisciplinary Research & Development teams, start-ups or tech companies in the Pittsburgh region that are developing, testing, or adopting an autonomous solution to pre...
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First RAPS Patient Safety Research and Development Salon Highlights Digital Twin Technology

The first Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Research and Development Salon convened over 50 innovators, researchers, and technology entrepreneurs from across the Pittsburgh region on June 29 to learn about digital twin technolo...
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JHF Travels to Norway and Finland for Study Tour

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation Study Tour took place June 5-14 visiting various sites in Norway and Finland for lively discussions and to learn from key providers and innovators there in patient safety, women's health, aging, dementi...
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WHAMglobal Board Discusses Women’s Health Lessons from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Norway, and Finland

The WHAMglobal Board convened on June 21 for a presentation on women's health equity at the international level. During the meeting, Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD and JHF COO and Chief Program...
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Robert Ferguson Highlights NPSB Vision and Progress at 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit

Robert Ferguson was a guest at the 10th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit on June 1 and 2 in Newport Beach, CA, speaking on a panel about the National Patient Safety Board (NPSB). Moderated by JHF Board membe...
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The Health Summit at Sundance Discusses Technology and the Future of Health Care

The Health Summit at Sundance welcomed a select group of healthcare leaders and innovators to Utah to discuss the current state of health care in the United States, providing a supportive and closed-door environment to listen, learn, a...
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Karen Wolk Feinstein Moderates Panel at CMU-K&L Gates Conference in Ethics and AI

Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD moderated the panel "AI and Societal Impact: Health Equity" at the two-day CMU-K&L Gates Conference in Ethics and AI held at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) ...
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