The 19th annual Patient Safety Fellowship is looking toward the future. During the Patient Safety Challenge Fellowship this summer, fellows will reimagine health care starting from a patient/family perspective and designing it to be va...
Project & Program Updates
The PA Youth Advocacy Network, a program of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF), launched the 2023 Teen Mental Health Advocacy Series on February 1 with the youth presenting their final advocacy projects during the virtual finale on...
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy visited Pittsburgh on April 3rd and 4th to hear from community members and teens around the issue of protecting youth mental health. These discussions were in follow-up to the national advisory Dr....
On March 23, the Teen Mental Health Collaborative held its quarterly meeting at Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation as an opportunity to network, share organizational highlights, and hear and learn from partner organizations. Collaborative m...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) hosted a lunch with members of the Allegheny County House Delegation on April 5, providing an opportunity for many of the new members of the delegation to learn more about JHF, its mission, and it...
Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, president and CEO of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation participated in an 11-day international study tour with the Commonwealth Fund and AcademyHealth. Dr. Feinstein was one of eight U.S. healthcare leaders in...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO and past International Women's Forum (IWF) Pittsburgh Forum President Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD and JHF Board Chair and past IWF Pittsburgh Forum President Debra Caplan, MPA attended a spe...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) hosted 11 healthcare professionals from nine countries who were nominated by the U.S. embassies for the project "Mitigating Challenges in Women's Health" to learn about the Foundation's women's he...
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge is designed to fuel the engagement of students and innovators in creating solutions and envisioning transformational approaches to reduce preventable harm from medical errors and reimagine a vast...
Two competitions have joined the Patient Safety Technology Challenge funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative. The East Carolina University Healthcare Innovation Pitch Pro...
On April 18, Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) COO and Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts spoke at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Foundation board meeting, held virtually via Zoom. Zionts was invited to speak by Steve Ewell...
Pittsburgh native, best-selling author, and former Jewish Healthcare Foundation Board member Theresa Brown, RN celebrated the release of her book Healing, on April 11 at Penguin Bookshop in Sewickley. Nancy Zionts, COO and chief progra...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation is the presenting sponsor of a conversation with Emily Kline, PhD Thursday, May 11 at 6 p.m. as part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Local Series at the Carnegie Library Lecture Hall. The lec...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation hosted a two-day self-defense seminar April 14 and April 21. Provided by master instructors from the Isshinryu Karate Academy, the course provided staff with self-defense techniques and scenarios, taugh...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation was a silver sponsor of Healthy Start's Black Birth Expo held April 15 at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. Sara Nelis, RN, project manager for the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Colla...
In recognition of National Healthcare Decisions Day, members of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation Aging Team were available on April 17 and 18 to answer questions about advance directives and how to name a healthcare agent. Staff were e...
On May 13th, 2022, Michael J. Becich, MD, PhD, a friend of the Foundation, associate vice chancellor for informatics in health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and distinguished professor and chair of Pitt's Department of Biom...
Pennsylvania-based Premier Medical Associates recently received the American Medical Group Assocation (AMGA)'s Acclaim Award for the second year in a row. PMA is led by Chief Executive Officer Mark DeRubeis who also serves as co-chair ...
Dan Swayze, DrPH, MBA, MEMS, has been involved in emergency medical services for more than 30 years and is one of the earliest pioneers of community paramedicine. "I started as a wannabe medical student and quickly realized that I wasn...
A new behavioral health workforce development program aims to support frontline and clinician staff in Pittsburgh, and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has been named the lead partner for the orientation and training programs com...