The pandemic's effects on youth mental health and the need for increased services and supports was recently highlighted in a Jewish Chronicle op-ed "The time is now to invest in the mental health system" by Jewish Healthcare Foundation...
Project & Program Updates
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation sponsored a conversation with Emily Kline, PhD on May 11 as part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Made Local Series at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall. At the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures serie...
The Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative held its annual meeting May 4 at the Hilton in Harrisburg. With approximately 140 attendees, it was the first in-person annual meeting since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The t...
Too Hot for July (TH4J), Pittsburgh's only HIV awareness event, will be held Thursday, June 1, honoring those lost to, living with, and affected by HIV, and to educate the community about advancements in prevention and treatment that c...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's HIV/AIDS Team hosted its Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) Learning Session in Pittsburgh on April 25-26, bringing together 22 outreach workers from 11 agencies across the state. The purpose of this sess...
Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, served as a speaker at the Department of Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference at UPMC Shadyside on May 25. The M&M Conference is a traditional, recurring conference held by medical services at acad...
The COVID-19 pandemic wrought unprecedented challenges for nursing homes, and the already-strained workforce has been pushed to the point of crisis. Through a two-year pilot project, the Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home Initiative ...
A Dementia Friendly Webinar on "Bringing a Community Together" will be held on June 16 from 10:30 a.m. to noon. This webinar is for those who are interested in starting a Dementia-Friendly Community in their area. Attendees will l...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation Aging Initiatives Program Manager Stacie Bonenberger, MOT, OTR/L, served as judge for the Allegheny Health Network (AHN) Medical Institute (MI) Trainee Research Day on May 3. Trainee Research Day is an annu...
During May, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge saw some of its sponsored competitions run their program and award new patient safety winners. The first of these events, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge-sponsored Healthcare ...
A new competition kicked off this month as part of the Patient Safety Technology Challenge. A brand new competition, Patient Safety Technology Trailblazer, is being hosted by OSF Healthcare, a non-profit Catholic healthcare organizatio...
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, provided an update on the introduction of Senate Bill 631, whic...
Chelsea Dickson, MPH will serve as a program specialist on the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Aging Initiatives team. In her role, she will support the Teaching Nursing Home initiative, Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania, and related aging...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation internship program resumes this summer with six interns serving across all the Foundation's focus areas. This year's interns bring a diverse range of academic backgrounds and interests to JHF's initiati...
The Jewish Family and Community Services celebrated their 8th anniversary at their annual meeting on May 18. At the event, Jewish Healthcare Foundation-seeded efforts were celebrated throughout, including The Squirrel Hill Food Pantry ...
Carole Hemmelgarn, MS, MS met with Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) staff during her visit to Pittsburgh on May 4 to discuss ongoing efforts to advance patient safety priorities. Hemmelgarn is a Senior Director of Education at the Me...
JHF Board member and Audit Chair Carole Bailey, CPA has been named the executive director of the McElhattan Foundation, a Pittsburgh-based grantmaking foundation whose mission is to preserve and enhance human life by focusing on workpl...
Lindsey Ronnenberg is the senior director of global quality products and services at Omnicell, a company providing innovative pharmacy and medication management solutions for healthcare professionals and health systems. Since 1992, Omn...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation has been steadily advancing its agenda in 2023 with priorities in each organizational focus area: patient safety, workforce development, women's health, senior and long-term care, HIV/AIDS, and teen men...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Distribution Committee (JHF) approved a $300,000 one-year grant to the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) to support patient safety research and development in the region via the second phas...