On Wednesday, January 24, youth advocate, Sophie Fontecchio, visited Western Pennsylvania to spread her teen mental health advocacy efforts. In 2021, Sophie founded Let's Bake the World a Better Place – an organization that "engages lo...
Project & Program Updates
On January 24, Ariadne Labs announced the founding members of the JHF-funded Leadership and Innovation Network for the program entitled "Pathway to Accountability, Compassion, and Transparency" (PACT). PACT improves the way healthcare ...
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced the winners of three recent events. The NursesKnow Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced Crimson Medical Solutions as the winner of the $5,000 first prize on December 14. The Nu...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation Chief Operating Officer and Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts, MBA was a guest on the Elevate Elder Care podcast to discuss "Revisiting – and Re-Energizing – Teaching Nursing Homes." Pr...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation President and CEO Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD was a contributor to the recently published Elgar Encyclopedia of Nonprofit Management, Leadership and Governance, a reference guide compiled by Dr. Kev...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation Aging Initiatives Program Manager and Dementia Friends Pennsylvania Co-Lead Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, CECM was recently appointed as a board member of Voice of Inspired Change for Elders (VOICE), a non...
David H. Ehrenwerth, JD has supported the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) since it was established in 1990. As a board member of Montefiore Hospital and one of its lawyers, he handled the sale of Montefiore to UPMC and the tran...
A Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and a Clinical Cytogenetics Consultant in the Pittsburgh Cytogenetics Laboratory from 1987 to 2019, Susanne Gollin, PhD, FFACMGG has built a multifac...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's Fellowship Alumni Spotlight series showcases some of the many incredible alumni of the Feinstein Fellowships. Selena Eisenberg is a traditional midwife, founder of Igi Osè - Traditional Birth Se...
Deanna Page, MS, LPC is a program specialist on the JHF's Aging Initiatives team. In her role, she will support Dementia Friendly Pennsylvania, Dementia Friends Pennsylvania, the PA Long-Term Care Learning Network, and related aging an...
PITTSBURGH, PA – For Pennsylvania Maternal Health Awareness Day, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation contributed to a statewide collective plan to raise awareness of recommendations to improve maternal health and reduce racial/ethnic disp...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation approved emergency grants totaling $25,000 to the P.E.F. Israel Endowment Funds for the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center, Israel's first and largest rape crisis center. "Since the attacks of Octobe...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's commitment to teen mental health was on full display at its December All-Boards meeting, which included tours of both The Beacon and UpStreet. The Friendship Circle's The Beacon in Squirrel Hill held ...
The Jewish Community Advisory Committee met for the first time on December 4 to begin to develop its working model for 2024 and to discuss potential funding priorities. The Committee is tasked by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) ...
On December 1, AIDS Free Pittsburgh (AFP) with Allies for Health + Wellbeing, TrueT Pgh, and The Q-Munity Center brought together over 130 people for The Category is… Red: A World AIDS Day Event at the Union Project in Highland Park. E...
With statewide partners, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation helped to launch a Maternal Health Policy Collaborative to develop a prioritized list of recommendations for private and public stakeholders to rally around in 2024. Over ...
The Teen Mental Health Collaborative gathered on December 11th at Allegheny Family Network for the final quarterly meeting of the year. Thirty-five participants representing 18 youth-serving organizations, nonprofits offering mental he...
The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced the winners of Hack the Nest and OSF Healthcare's Patient Safety Technology Trailblazer, sponsored events that took place this month. Hack the Nest, the DC, Maryland, Virginia (DMV) are...
Four new competitions and one returning competition, Bench to Bedside, have been added to the Patient Safety Technology Challenge for 2024. Funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health I...
During her seven years at JHF, Pauline Taylor, CQIA has supported the Patient Centered Medical Home initiative, Centers of Excellence project, served as a quality improvement coach in the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative (P...