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 ...
Project & Program Updates
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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) ...