Four Patient Safety Awards Added to Competitions Across the Country

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: Emory University's GHA 2040 Healthcare ...
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AIDS Free Pittsburgh’s Five-Year Impact Published in Academic Journal

An overview of the AIDS Free Pittsburgh (AFP) program looking at the first five years of the program was accepted for publication in the journal, Sexually Transmitted Diseases. "Getting to Zero in Allegheny County: Implementation of a ...
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Ryan White Learning Collaborative Bi-Monthly Meeting Gathers Allegheny County Agencies to Share and Dance

The Southwestern Pennsylvania Ryan White Learning Collaborative convened at the Jewish Healthcare Foundation on March 15 gathering frontline workers, case managers, and community health workers to network, learn, and vogue. Approximate...
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AIDS Free Pittsburgh Featured on KDKA

AIDS Free Pittsburgh's Chief Relationship Officer and Project Director Richard Smith, MSW and Ken Ho, MD, MPH, medical director of the Pitt Men's Study and a JHF Board member, were featured on KDKA on March 27 discussing AIDS Free Pitt...
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Health Careers Futures Board Discusses New Funding Opportunities for the Healthcare Workforce and to Improve Maternal and Child Health

For several years, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and Health Careers Futures have been focused on the healthcare workforce crisis and how the Foundation can work to address this issue. During the Health Careers Futures Board me...
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Death & Dying Fellows Put Learnings into Practice

Despite the need for better conversations around end-of-life care that the COVID-19 pandemic brought, many practitioners still find themselves unprepared to talk about serious illness and death with patients and families. The Jewish He...
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JHF Long-Term Care Team Presents on Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home and more at Statewide Conference

Jewish Healthcare Foundation COO and Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts, MBA, Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, JHF program manager, aging initiatives, and Maureen Saxon-Gioia, MSHSA, BSN, RN, nursing project manager, aging initiatives, attend...
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Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania Partners with Dementia Action Alliance on Dementia Manual

"Pathways to Well-Being with Dementia: A Manual of Help, Hope and Inspiration" was released this month by the Dementia Action Alliance with Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania, a program of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, serving as a par...
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The State of Hospice Care Takes Center Stage at Coalition for Quality at the End of Life Meeting

Recent controversies around issues of poor quality and fraud among for-profit hospices and current advances in the delivery of palliative care in pediatric populations were the focus of the first statewide Coalition for Quality at the ...
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Allegheny County Medical Society Highlights the National Patient Safety Board

In a recent post on The Allegheny County Medical Society's ACMS Insights, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) CEO and President Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, outlined the efforts of PRHI to focus on policy change at the federal l...
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Karen Wolk Feinstein Discusses RAPS Initiative on TechVibe Radio Show

Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD was recently a guest on the Pittsburgh Technology Council radio show "TechVibe" with hosts Audrey Russo and Jonathan Kersting to discuss the Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Initiative and the potenti...
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Karen Feinstein Receives NBME’s Edithe J. Levit Distinguished Service Award

The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) awarded Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD the Edithe J. Levit Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes individuals who have provided unusually v...
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Karen Feinstein Named to PA City & State’s Health Care Power 100 List

Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, President and CEO, Jewish Healthcare Foundation, was recognized among Pennsylvania's most influential leaders in health care on City & State PA's Health Care Power 100. This is Dr. Feinstein's third conse...
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Organizers of Violins of Hope Greater Pittsburgh Share about its Roots

Violins of Hope Greater Pittsburgh, organized by co-chairs Sandra Rosen and Patricia Siger and project manager Lynn Zelenski, will bring together the arts, religious institutions, community organizations, education professionals, and m...
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JHF Sponsors Pittsburgh Arts & Lecture Event with Dr. Emily Kline

Update April 4, 2023: Event has been canceled due to Dr. Kline testing positive for COVID-19. The Jewish Healthcare Foundation is the presenting sponsor of a conversation with Emily Kline, PhD on Tuesday, April 4 at 6 p.m. as part...
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JHF Welcomes new Behavioral Health Project Manager Bridget McNamee

Bridget McNamee, MID, will serve as the behavioral health project manager, overseeing the implementation of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's role in the Behavioral Health Fellows Program, a program working to enhance the region's cap...
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Fellowship Alumni Spotlight: Gabriella Agostaro

 The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Fellowship Alumni Spotlight series showcases some of the many incredible alumni of the Feinstein Fellowships. In the above video, 2022 Death and Dying Fellowship & Patient Safety Fellowship ...
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Daniel Wolfson Leads Transformational Efforts for Improved Healthcare Delivery

"I grew up in the 60s and went to college in the early 70s. So from the very beginning, I wanted to change society," Daniel Wolfson said of his decades long career. A sociology and psychology major at Boston University, Wolfson was inv...
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Regional Autonomous Patient Safety Launch Event Plants a Flag in Pittsburgh as an Innovation Hub

Read the RAPS Initiative Overview PDF. The Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) initiative launch event was held February 24 at Carnegie Mellon University in partnership with the Pittsburgh Technology Council, convening regional s...
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Dr. Karen Wolk Feinstein Speaks on Patient Safety Panel at National Quality Forum’s Annual Conference

The 2023 National Quality Forum Annual Conference "Innovation in Action: Driving Change Through Measurement," held February 20-23 in Washington, DC, convened healthcare leaders to highlight public and private sector innovations that ar...
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