In the past six months, the PA Teaching Nursing Home Collaborative (PA TNHC) has grown by nearly 20 schools of nursing and 40 nursing homes from across the Commonwealth. Led by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and Health Careers Future...
Project & Program Updates
Pennsylvanians are encouraged to submit comments to the state's "Aging Our Way, PA" draft plan now through March 20, 2024. The plan is the state's 10-year roadmap to empower its growing population of older adults through services and s...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and Women's Health Activist Movement Global (WHAMglobal) convened a Salzburg Seminar "Women as They Age: Addressing the Next Inequity Frontier" January 16-19 at Rancho Bernardo Inn in San Diego, Calif...
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 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...
The staffing crisis that continues to plague nursing homes is only exacerbated by the shrinking pipeline of nursing school graduates into the long-term care setting. Students continue to have limited exposure to geriatrics coursework, ...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) staff Stacie Bonenberger, MOT, OTR/L and Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, CECM traveled to Harrisburg in mid-October to support the development of the Pennsylvania Department of Aging's Master Plan for Older...
At the 2023 Grantmakers in Aging Conference, held in Austin, Texas October 17–20, Jewish Healthcare Foundation COO and Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts, MBA had the opportunity to share with other funders in the aging space abou...
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...
This short documentary, sponsored by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and produced by WQED, highlights the crisis in nursing with nurses sharing how they are being asked to care for more patients than they can safely manage, and viewer...
"Ready to Impact," the 2023 Pioneer Network/Green House Project Center for Innovation Conference, held July 23–26 at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel and Conference Center, provided several opportunities to showcase the Jewi...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation Study Tour took place June 5-14 visiting various sites in Norway and Finland for lively discussions and to learn from key providers and innovators there in patient safety, women's health, aging, dementi...
Transitions of care, whether between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities or between nursing facilities and the community, can present challenges and lead to disruptions in care. The second quarter of programming for the Pennsylvan...
Research has shown that palliative care can benefit both patients and providers by better managing patients' symptoms and improving quality of life, reducing costs, reducing hospitalizations, and increasing hospice utilization at the e...
The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) has been recognized as a 2023 SAGECare Platinum Credentialed provider for programming to LGBTQ+ older adults. The Aging and HIV/AIDS staff have completed training that provided an overview of the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic wrought unprecedented challenges for nursing homes, and the already-strained workforce has been pushed to the point of crisis. Through a two-year pilot project, the Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home Initiative ...
Jewish Healthcare Foundation COO and Chief Program Officer Nancy Zionts, MBA, Anneliese Perry, MS, NHA, JHF program manager, aging initiatives, and Maureen Saxon-Gioia, MSHSA, BSN, RN, nursing project manager, aging initiatives, attend...
Recent controversies around issues of poor quality and fraud among for-profit hospices and current advances in the delivery of palliative care in pediatric populations were the focus of the first statewide Coalition for Quality at the ...
On January 19, the Pennsylvania Long-Term Care Learning Network kicked off the first quarter of programming for the year. The selected theme for the quarter will focus on introducing participants to Age-Friendly Health Systems (AFHS) a...
For the fifth year, Jewish Healthcare Foundation's (JHF's) end-of-life staff are leading a class at Carnegie Mellon University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. "Closure: Discussing the Last Chapter" is adapted from the J...