Who We Are

The Jewish Healthcare Foundation (JHF) and its three operating arms—the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), Health Careers Futures (HCF), and the Women's Health Activist Movement Global (WHAMglobal)—offer a unique brand of activist philanthropy to advance healthcare innovation, advocacy, collaboration, and education in the interest of better population health. JHF is also the fiscal agent for State HIV/AIDS funding in southwestern Pennsylvania. JHF is funded by public and private sources, and the JHF endowment. JHF is focused on pertinent health issues for the entire community, including the Jewish community.

In addition to its grantmaking, JHF advances critical and timely work through a variety of projects, programs, and education. Explore JHF’s focus areas and select projects and programs below:

Patient Safety

• National Patient Safety Board
• Patient Safety Technology Challenge
• Pittsburgh Regional Autonomous Patient Safety Initiative (via the PRHI website)

Seniors and Aging

• Dementia Friends Pennsylvania
• Closure
• Revisiting the Teaching Nursing Home Initiative
• Pennsylvania Long-Term Care Learning Network

Women’s and Maternal Health (via the WHAMglobal website)

• Pittsburgh: A Safer Childbirth City
• Community Fund
• WIC Stakeholders Collaborative
• Maternity Workforce
• Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative

Adolescent Behavioral Health

• PA Youth Advocacy Network
• Teen Mental Health Collaborative

HIV/AIDS

• HIV/AIDS fiscal agency
• AIDS Free Pittsburgh
• Minority AIDS Initiative

Regional and Statewide Collaboration, Training, and Coaching

• Feinstein Fellowships (via the HCF website)
• Champions Programs (via the PRHI website)
• Perfecting Patient Care^SM (via the PRHI website)
• Practice Transformation (via the PRHI website)
• HealthChoices Patient-Centered Medical Home Learning Network (via the PRHI website)

For a deeper dive into JHF’s work, view our publications here:

• The Window: JHF’s monthly newsletter
• Research papers
• ROOTS publications