UNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK

Programs

1. Uhf's medicaid institute and health insurance project make up its coverage and access focus area which works to ensure comprehensive, affordable health insurance for its residents including providing public coverage to its most vulnerable. As the covid-19 public health emergency ended, uhf's coverage and access teams focused on helping ensure new yorkers remained covered during the unwind of the covid-era continuous coverage requirements. Uhf hosted the final two meetings of a two-year series drawing more than a thousand total participants who shared strategies for ensuring continuous coverage and identified process improvements based on member experience with the coverage renewal process. The medicaid institute also worked closely with a team from weill cornell medical college to conduct a retrospective study of medicaid members' experience with the coverage renewal process. The medicaid institute in collaboration with the quality institute worked closely with the new york state department of health to convene primary care stakeholders to inform an update to the state's primary care core measure set. The uhf team facilitated three stakeholder meetings, and survey and ranking…

   $1,246,443 spent$891,398 earned by the program
   19% of program spending

2. Uhf's quality institute works to advance more equitable care and better outcomes for all new yorkers by aligning the work of the many agencies, payers, providers, and other groups engaged in improving health care quality and patient safety. In partnership with key stakeholders, uhf develops new strategies to raise the bar for the quality and effectiveness of new york's health system while promoting greater focus on health inequities. Uhf trains and engages quality improvement and equity leaders; elevates the health system's response to the needs and priorities of patients, families, and consumers; develops and promotes innovative strategies to strengthen and spread best practices; analyzes the impact of uneven health quality; prioritizes the needs of populations experiencing inequities; and bridges gaps in quality assessment, quality improvement, and care coordination. The quality institute builds on uhf's decade-long experience in implementing health care quality initiatives and grant-making activities as well as its role as a neutral and trusted convener of diverse stakeholders in the health care community. Uhf, partnering with greater new york hospital association (gnyha),…

   $1,069,006 spent
   17% of program spending

3. Uhf's children's health work is the primary focus in its clinical-community partnerships priority area which works to reduce inequities by building and advancing more effective, sustainable methods of collaboration between health care entities and communities to address the social factors driving health inequities. Uhf completed its pediatric steps to literacy initiative providing technical and financial support to selected pediatric practices in new york city that serve low-income young children/families to implement or expand early childhood literacy programs in the physician office setting, focusing on a 2-generational approach to literacy and the importance of a literacy-rich pediatric office environment. The milstein toolkit to promote early childhood literacy in primary care shared lessons from the multi-year initiative and provided pediatricians and their community partners with actionable steps to nurture critical foundational reading skills. A commentary, two exemplary impact stories from the field, and a video were disseminated in support of the initiative, its participants and the toolkit. Building on previously published seminal writings on the most challenging topics…

   $682,225 spent
   11% of program spending

4. Uhf awarded $240,000 in grants in fy25 to support ongoing programs to address polypharmacy in nursing homes, to support clinical quality improvement training, and to support research on individual experience and outcomes for maintaining coverage during the unwind of the continuous coverage requirement process. Uhf hosted the 2024 medicaid conference, which brought together over 850 policymakers, providers, insurers, community organizations, and policy experts statewide to share and discuss important issues in new york's medicaid program. The conference, shaping the future of care integration" featured a keynote by amir bassiri, the state's medicaid director. Other sessions included panels on coordinating perinatal care, integration to provide whole-person care, and the future of integrating social needs into medicaid.other program expenses included general operating expenses not allocated across programs and two new projects. The health equity fellowship launched in fy25 with the selection of 8 fellows who embarked on the start of an 18-month experiential learning opportunity blending collaborative leadership development, policy, and systems change thinking. Fellows partner with a…

   $3,473,765 spentof which $240,000 as grants
   54% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,471,439.