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. We are funded by public and private sources, and the JHF endowment.

We act as a neutral voice focused on Perfecting Patient Care^SM (PPC) for patients, workers and healthcare systems.

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 (RAVEN, Caregiver Champions*)
• patients and their families (Practice Transformation, HPV Vaccination Initiative)
• the chronically ill (Primary Care Resource Centers*, COMPASS*)
• those who are approaching End-of-Life (Closure)
• persons living with behavioral health problems (COMPASS*), and 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*)
• incentivized (RWJF payment reform grant and The Fine Awards)
• prepared by training and coaching (Perfecting Patient Care^SM, Tomorrow’s HealthCare^TM, PPC University, Fellowships, Champions Programs, and Training Center for Outcomes-Based Integration)

For Organizations and Systems, this focus includes:

• training, coaching, and leadership development (Perfecting Patient Care^SM)
• comprehensive improvement and education tools (Tomorrow’s HealthCare^TM)
• transformations and new models of care (Practice Transformation, Primary Care Resource Centers*, COMPASS*)
• payment reform (RWJF payment reform grant*)

* 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)