Five PA Youth Advocacy student leaders were accepted into the Our Future in Mind: Local Edition training program this month, including Connor Dalgaard, Alekhya Buragadda, Tyler Nolt, Mohammad Shedeed, and Brynne Sorley. In the program,...
Project & Program Updates
On Oct. 7, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published the op-ed "Violence traumatizes teens. Here's one answer" by Colleen O. Fedor of The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania. The piece focused on the importance of mentoring ...
Hazell Azzer Carpenter-Saunders has joined the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) as the AIDS Free Pittsburgh community outreach and engagement coordinator for the HIV/AIDS Team. In his role, he develops ongoing community engagement op...
On October 22 at The Lundquist Institute in Torrance, California, the Institute celebrated the investiture of Lynn M. Smith, MD as the J. Usha Raj Endowed Professor of Pediatrics. Smith is an investigator at The Lundquist Institute; pr...
Governor and First Lady Wolf recognized Pennsylvania's 2022 Distinguished Daughters on October 12. Among the 11 women recognized for their leadership, service, and extraordinary achievements were Caren Glotfelty and Dr. Elizabeth Mille...
Several members of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and the WHAMglobal team attended the Midwife Center's Ruby Revelry on September 30 to celebrate 40 years of service and honor the Center's founders. During the celebration, it exceede...
Early in Dr. Joanne Conroy's tenure as a healthcare leader, a three-year-old girl was brought to the pediatric emergency room suffering from an asthma attack. While receiving nebulizer treatments, the end of the device became detached ...
On October 29, the March of Dimes recognized Neel Shah, MD, MPP, FACOG as this year's recipient of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Humanitarian Award at its Boston Gala. A friend of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and WHAMglobal, ...
One of the most prestigious groups of women leaders in health and health care reunited in Savannah, Georgia on October 12 with over 50 Women of Impact gathering to discuss collective action in response to the Dobbs decision which rever...
Naida Reed, a former Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative employee, friend of the Foundation, and author of The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota Base Methods, is one of a group of singers in ...
It is with great sadness that the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) recognizes the passing of Dr. Lewis H. Kuller. As a leader in the Department of Epidemiology and later the Center for Healthy Aging at the University of Pittsburgh, D...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved over $1M in grants September 13, including funds to develop the Initiative for Patient Safety Research at Carnegie Mellon University; to establish the Women's Reproductive Health Eme...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation has maintained a vigorous aging agenda since its inception more than 30 years ago. This work was recently highlighted in an op-ed published in the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle. "Seniors Matter to Us…Now ...
On August 4, 2022, the Biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency. Since then, every state and Washington, D.C. has recorded cases of the virus. As of Sept. 20, 2022, the CDC reported 24,203 total confirmed monke...
On September 15, Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, gave a keynote address to the Purchaser Business Group on Health, a nonprofit representing one...
On September 6, Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, was invited by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Board of Directors to discuss op...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Dr. Karen Wolk Feinstein provided testimony September 21 to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on the foundation's support for the establishment of a Nat...
On September 17, designated as World Patient Safety Day by the World Health Organization, advocates for greater safety in health care gathered in Washington, DC, to take part in the annual March for Patient Safety. Patients for Patient...
The Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative's (PRHI) Patient Safety Technology Challenge celebrated the completion of the first of many patient safety awards at competitions across the country. As part of the Challenge, PRHI sponsored th...
During a fall election cycle that has Pennsylvania in the national spotlight for its tight political races with major implications on key healthcare issues, the Salk Health Activist Fellowship is focused on equipping healthcare activis...