HIV Providers Share Outreach Strategies to Improve Linkage and Retention in Care across Pennsylvania

Four HIV case managers shared lessons learned over the past decade through implementation of the statewide Minority AIDS Initiative (MAI) at an HIV conference hosted by the Pennsylvania Department of Health Division of HIV Disease in G...
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Relive Too Hot for July

Relive Too Hot for July (TH4J), Pittsburgh's only HIV awareness event with this recap video and through interviews with vendors and service providers at the event. Held June 1, the event honors those lost to, living with, and affected ...
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AIDS Free Pittsburgh Participates in Overdose Awareness Event

AIDS Free Pittsburgh joined dozens of local organizations, officials, and residents at a resource fair at the City-County Building to recognize International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31. Local organizations set up tables where ...
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PA Long-Term Care Learning Collaborative Assembles Nursing Homes Amid Sea of Changes

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently announced two changes with significant implications for both the daily operations and overall health of the nursing home industry. CMS initiated changes to the required Mini...
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Karen Feinstein Speaks at Auton Lab’s 30th Anniversary Celebration

The Auton Lab 30th Anniversary celebration was held September 8 at Carnegie Mellon University, including presentations from the illustrious alumni of Auton Lab, panel discussions with some of the region's leading informatics and techno...
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New Patient Safety Technology Challenge Winners Announced in September

The Patient Safety Technology Challenge announced winners of two sponsored events that took place in September. This month also marks the one-year anniversary of the Patient Safety Technology Challenge, and a brief video of the in...
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Pittsburgh Tech Council’s AI Panel Features RAPS

Each year, the Pittsburgh Technology Council hosts the TEQ Magazine State of the Industry Report Reveal party, highlighting what's in the forefront of the region's innovation sector. Not surprisingly, the panel at this year's event on ...
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Debra Caplan Appointed to Governor Shapiro’s Workforce Development Board

Governor Josh Shapiro has named workforce development as a top priority for his Administration, revamping the Pennsylvania Workforce Development Board and announcing in September the appointment of more than 40 members to guide its wor...
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Join Us at the Pittsburgh: A Safer Childbirth City Gala on October 19

Join us for the Finale Gala for the Pittsburgh: A Safer Childbirth City initiative on the evening of Thursday, October 19 at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater. At the event, you'll hear from critical community organizations supporting Black ...
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JHF Sponsors Third Annual Eradicate Hate Global Summit in Pittsburgh

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation was a funder of the third annual Eradicate Hate Global Summit, the most comprehensive anti-hate conference in the world, held in Pittsburgh and virtually September 27-29. Born out of the Tree of Life ma...
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JHF Welcomes New Project Accountant, Meagan Acrie

Meagan Acrie is the new project accountant for the Jewish Healthcare Foundation. Acrie will support finance needs across the Foundation's various programs. Before joining JHF, she worked for 13 years as a budget analyst in emergency se...
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Jim Jen Bolsters and Leads CMU’s Corporate Startup Lab

Looking back, most of Jim Jen's early jobs were computer related. Learning programming in high school, he spent his ninth-grade summer setting up and running a computer for a local business, creating spreadsheets to schedule the produc...
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A Jam-Packed Fall: Announcing Eight New Patient Safety Technology Challenges

Eight new competitions joined the Patient Safety Technology Challenge this month. Funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge is desi...
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Health Care Redesign Expo Showcases Pittsburgh Safety Tech Innovators

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How would you deploy cutting edge technology, out-of-the-box thinking, and interdisciplinary perspectives to reshape longstanding safety issues plaguing today's patients? Thirty graduate students and innovators spent the summer focused...
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RAPS Salon Highlights Region’s Tech Hub University Leaders

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The August 23 Regional Autonomous Patient Safety (RAPS) Research and Development Salon convened innovators, researchers, and technology entrepreneurs from across the Pittsburgh region to highlight regional research initiatives at Carne...
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Health Careers Futures Board Showcases JHF Workforce Initiatives

On August 23, the Health Careers Futures (HCF) Board convened to discuss the Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) teen mental health initiatives, the Behavioral Health Fellows program, Feinstein Fellowships, Revisiting the Teaching Nur...
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Four Projects Approved to Receive Maternal Health Innovations Grants

Allegheny Health Network's Immigrant & Refugee Doula Program, Hello Neighbor, The Mid-Atlantic Mothers' Milk Bank, and The Midwife Center for Birth & Women's Health will be the first recipients of maternal care innovation grant...
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JHF to Serve on Leadership Team and Provide Training through CDC BOLD Public Health Grant Awarded to Allegheny County

Allegheny County Health Department (ACHD) was selected as one of 43 recipients nationally of the Centers for Disease Control's BOLD grants supporting public health programs to address Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), r...
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Perinatal Health Equity Champions Program Links Traditional Birth Services and St. Clair Hospital

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Women's Health Activist Movement global (WHAMglobal) facilitated a collaborative project through the Perinatal Health Equity Champions Program between Igi Osé – Traditional Birth...
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Patient Safety Technology Challenge Announces Upcoming Competitions and A New Winner

Four new competitions joined the Patient Safety Technology Challenge this month. Funded by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and administered by the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, the Patient Safety Technology Challenge fue...
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