Death, dying, and grieving are inevitable realities of health care. Although healthcare professionals confront these issues regularly, many still do not feel equipped to communicate with patients and families about these challenging ma...
Project & Program Updates
On September 9, the Teen Mental Health Collaborative held its quarterly meeting at the Center of Life as an opportunity to network and collaborate, learn about family engagement strategies to improve teen mental health and wellness, an...
On September 12, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) was invited by GlobalPittsburgh to present to four doctors and researchers from Uzbekistan's Research Institute for Epidemiology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (RIEMID). Th...
On September 16, the Pittsburgh Business Times published an interview with Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) CEO and president Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD on activist philanthropy and JHF's efforts to reduce medical errors. In the piece...
Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. is working with a wide range of community and philanthropic organizations to develop the annual Aradhna Award for Leadership, or the Aradhna Award, in honor of former Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. (LPInc.) CEO a...
Dr. Jonathan Weinkle, longtime friend of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF), achieved a major goal this year with the launch of the course "Healing and Humanity" at the University of Pittsburgh.Offered through the Department of Rel...
Friend of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and persistent patient safety advocate David Mayer, MD, recently published the book How to Stay Safe When Entering the Healthcare System: A Physician Walks Across the Country to Raise Aw...
One of the true highlights of the Pennsylvania Long-Term Care Learning Network is seeing the "all teach all learn" philosophy at the core of the program in action. On September 15, it was on full display as the program wrapped its thir...
On September 20, Jewish Healthcare Foundation staff participated in a two-hour Stop the Bleed training, learning three techniques to help save a life before someone bleeds out to empower them to assist in an emergency and potentially s...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation was a proud sponsor of the second annual Eradicate Hate Global Summit held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center September 19–21. Born out of the Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh in October 2018...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation was a proud sponsor of the International Society for Research on Internet Interventions 11th Scientific Meeting (ISRII 11) held in Pittsburgh on September 18-21. The conference was a success with 325 re...
Everyone deserves access to compassionate health care, and few know this as well as Stuart Fisk, CRNP. His life's work has been dedicated to HIV activism, research, prevention, and care for persons living with HIV disease. Fisk's work ...
On September 21, World Alzheimer's Day, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) announced the establishment of Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania, a new initiative aimed at supporting Pennsylvanians living with dementia. Pennsylv...
On August 23, AcademyHealth hosted the webinar "Patient Safety and Health Worker Retention: Twin Crises" to explore the reasons underlying the diminished healthcare workforce, the resulting increase in medical error and adverse events,...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Coalition for Quality at the End of Life are pleased to announce the launch of a redesigned Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) continuing education program. The new POLST Lear...
On August 23 and 24, the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs hosted the Safer Childbirth Cities (SCC) annual meeting in Chicago with presentations being shared by large and small organizations across the country, i...
On August 8, the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) and the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) Communications Committee met to discuss two of their newest patient safety initiatives, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge an...
On August 22, Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) Chief Operating Officer/Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts, MBA presented "Quality and Safety in Skilled Nursing" at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Office of the Inspect...
Alekhya Buragadda, a youth advocate with the Jewish Healthcare Foundations' PA Youth Advocacy Network, participated in "Supporting Schools in our Communities: A Critical Foundation to Child and Youth Mental Health," a moderated convers...
There are over 3,000 people living with HIV in southwestern Pennsylvania, and AIDS Free Pittsburgh is committed to ensuring care is available and eliminating the spread of new cases. In a broad marketing campaign for HIV services in th...