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.

Our work looks to inform every level of the healthcare system:

For the Patient, it is care that is kind, competent, customized, comprehensive, safe and efficient; addressing the needs of patients, with a focus on vulnerable populations:

• seniors (Senior Connections, Dementia Friends Pennsylvania, RAVEN*, Caregiver Champions*)
• patients and their families (Practice Transformation)
• adolescents with mental health needs (Adolescent Behavioral Health Initiative)
• pregnant and new mothers (Safer Childbirth City)
• those who are approaching End-of-Life (Closure)
• persons living with HIV/AIDS (Readmissions Reduction project)

For the Healthcare Worker, it means that care is:

• informed and supported (Regional Extension & Assistance Center for HIT*)
• data-driven and guided by best-practice (Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative)
• prepared by training and coaching (Perfecting Patient Care^SM, Feinstein Fellowships, and Champions Programs)

For Organizations and Systems, this focus includes:

• innovating, collaborating, and supporting regional assests into the future of health caree (Liftoff PGH)
• training, coaching, and leadership development (Perfecting Patient Care^SM)
• transformations and new models of care (Practice Transformation, COMPASS*)
• establishing a new government body to transformation patient safety (National Patient Safety Board)
• removing waste, and reinvesting in effective services (Reinvesting In Health)

* Past project or program

A more thorough review of JHF, PRHI, HCF, and WHAMglobal programs is available through:

• The WINDOW newsletter (a monthly round-up of news, events, milestones, and more)
• ROOTS (a special-issue magazine that examines pressing healthcare topics)
• Branches (a periodical that shares lessons learned and challenges overcome by grantees and Foundation programs)
• Executive Summaries (share key learnings from PRHI demonstration projects, elucidate both challenges to and opportunities for improving health care, and explore the policy implications arising from both)
• Teachable Moments (brief videos of successful quality improvement projects)