PITTSBURGH, PA – Proposals are being sought from interested and qualified Pennsylvania organizations for projects between $15,000 - $100,000 per year for up to two years providing food-is-medicine style programs to make healthy, nutrit...
Project & Program Updates
PITTSBURGH, PA -- Applications are currently being accepted for short-term, maternal care innovation projects that will positively impact maternal health in Pennsylvania. Maternal mortality remains a serious issue in Pennsylvania ...
PITTSBURGH — Health Careers Futures, an operating arm of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF), has announced $3.6 million in funding to support the second phase of the Revisiting Teaching Nursing Home Initiative. The initia...
PITTSBURGH, PA—The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved a $300,000 one-year grant to the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) to support patient safety research and development in the region via the second phase of the R...
U.S. Representative Nanette Barragán (D-CA) has announced the introduction of H.R.9377 – the National Patient Safety Board Act, legislation to establish an independent federal agency dedicated to preventing and reducing healthcare-rela...
PITTSBURGH, PA —The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) approved over $1M in grants, including funds to develop the Initiative for Patient Safety Research at Carnegie Mellon University; to establish the Women's Reproductive Health Emerg...
On his local weekly radio show Heroes, Jim Roddey, the former (and first) chief executive of Allegheny County and former Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) Board member, interviews influential and inspiring leaders from the region. At ...
After a two-year hiatus, Too Hot For July, Pittsburgh's only HIV Biomedical Awareness Event, made its triumphant in-person return on June 2 outside KLVN Coffee Lab in Larimer. Hosted by AIDS Free Pittsburgh in partnership with True T P...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF) HIV/AIDS program has been awarded over $10 million from the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA DOH) for the 2022–2023 fiscal year, which will be used to improve the quality of and access to m...
Imagine that you had the opportunity to build a safer healthcare system from scratch. What would you envision? This is the question at the core of the upcoming Patient Safety Technology Challenge, launching this fall. The recently appo...
Many of the nation's leading thinkers and pioneers in health care gathered once again in Salt Lake City for The Health Summit at Sundance. This closed-door gathering provides an opportunity for off-the-record dialogue and novel thinkin...
The internship program has returned to the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) this summer with eight interns serving across all the Foundation's focus areas. This year's program has some notable differences from previous years, with a ...
The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) awarded the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) over $1.4 million in funding to continue the Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative's (PA PQC) work in improving perin...
On May 10 and 11, Pittsburgh showcased its potential to become a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) within health care. The "AI/ML in Healthcare Symposium," hosted for the first time by the Universit...
The International Women's Forum (IWF) 2022 Cornerstone Conference, "Discovery Through Earth, Seas, & Skies," took place in Santiago, Chile, from May 17 to May 19. The annual IWF Cornerstone Conference brings together some of the wo...
During the May 2022 International Women's Forum (IWF) Cornerstone Conference in Santiago, Chile, the IWF Healthcare Special Interest Group met to continue the discussion around inequities faced by older women in seeking good health car...
Two new Up Next for Patient Safety episodes are now available. Systemic Solutions features researcher Dr. Kathleen Sutcliffe, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and author of the highly lauded book Still Not ...
The PA Youth Advocacy Network recognized the month of May as Mental Health Awareness Month with several youth-centered events. Since 2018, the Network, a program of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation, has activated youth and adults acros...
On May 26, the Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) convened members of the Teen Mental Health Collaborative for the second in-person meeting of 2022. Attendees had the opportunity to share and network with Collaborative participants and...
The May 4 Senior Residential Living Full Court Press meeting focused on the recommendations contained in a highly anticipated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), The National Imperative to...