The United Hospital Fund of New York ( UHF ) is a nonprofit organization that focuses on improving health care in New York. It conducts health policy research and supports numerous health care initiatives through fundraising, grantmaking, and collaboration with other health care organizations. Since August 2017, the organization is led by Oxiris Barbot.
14-497: The United Hospital Fund was founded as a charitable organization in 1879, raising money for New York hospitals that provided health care for people who could not otherwise afford it. Originally called the Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association of New York City, it was formed "to obtain benevolent gifts for the hospitals of New York... and to provide for distributing these gifts... among such hospitals." Its first president
28-964: A health insurance exchange in the state following the passage of the Affordable Care Act . Working with the Greater New York Hospital Association, the Fund has led and participated in numerous efforts focused on quality improvement and patient safety at New York hospitals. These initiatives have led to lower incidence of central-line associated bloodstream infections and cardiac arrest , as well as lower mortality rates from severe sepsis . The Fund's Aging in Place initiative, begun in 2000, explores ways to provide health care and social services to seniors in their homes and communities, particularly in naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) . In 2008,
42-497: A series of charitable collections among churches and business groups in as early as 1882. In 1893, a committee was appointed "to take steps to have Hospital Saturday and Sunday observed throughout the United States." Members of the committee included Miller, Charles Lanier, Morris K.Jesup , Samuel D. Babcock , Cornelius Vanderbilt , Jesse Seligman, Jacob H. Schiff , and Charles Stewart Smith . The goal of this organization
56-575: Is a nonprofit organization that focuses on improving health care in New York. It conducts health policy research and supports numerous health care initiatives through fundraising, grantmaking, and collaboration with other health care organizations. Since August 2017, the organization is led by Oxiris Barbot. The United Hospital Fund was founded as a charitable organization in 1879, raising money for New York hospitals that provided health care for people who could not otherwise afford it. Originally called
70-622: The Affordable Care Act . Working with the Greater New York Hospital Association, the Fund has led and participated in numerous efforts focused on quality improvement and patient safety at New York hospitals. These initiatives have led to lower incidence of central-line associated bloodstream infections and cardiac arrest , as well as lower mortality rates from severe sepsis . The Fund's Aging in Place initiative, begun in 2000, explores ways to provide health care and social services to seniors in their homes and communities, particularly in naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) . In 2008,
84-624: The Fund set up the Next Step in Care campaign, which provides informational resources for family caregivers and works to build effective partnerships between caregivers and health care providers and professionals. Following the events of September 11, the Fund allocated $ 1 million to an initiative focused on Disaster Relief Medicaid, which helped get temporary health insurance coverage to 340,000 New Yorkers. George Macculloch Miller George Macculloch Miller (May 4, 1832 – November 14, 1917),
98-513: The Greater New York Hospital Association (1904), United Way of New York City (1938), and the New York Blood Center (1956). In accordance with its mission, the Fund's research, policy analysis, and grantmaking focus on health care and health equity , primarily in New York. Its research addresses health insurance coverage, health care quality, and patient safety. It also has been committed to reorienting health care services toward
112-695: The Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association of New York City, it was formed "to obtain benevolent gifts for the hospitals of New York... and to provide for distributing these gifts... among such hospitals." Its first president was George Macculloch Miller . The organization changed its name to the United Hospital Fund of New York in 1916. In 1935, the Fund established the Associated Hospital Service of New York (AHS), which later became Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York. It also helped found organizations that became
126-417: The New York Blood Center (1956). In accordance with its mission, the Fund's research, policy analysis, and grantmaking focus on health care and health equity , primarily in New York. Its research addresses health insurance coverage, health care quality, and patient safety. It also has been committed to reorienting health care services toward the needs of particular populations: the aging, people with HIV/AIDS,
140-479: The chronically ill, and family caregivers. Since 2005, the Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund has published numerous reports and studies exploring ways to improve New York's Medicaid program. Separately, the Fund's health insurance project has published a series of reports on the logistical and policy implications of setting up a health insurance exchange in the state following the passage of
154-414: The needs of particular populations: the aging, people with HIV/AIDS, the chronically ill, and family caregivers. Since 2005, the Medicaid Institute at United Hospital Fund has published numerous reports and studies exploring ways to improve New York's Medicaid program. Separately, the Fund's health insurance project has published a series of reports on the logistical and policy implications of setting up
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#1732801994452168-401: Was George Macculloch Miller . The organization changed its name to the United Hospital Fund of New York in 1916. In 1935, the Fund established the Associated Hospital Service of New York (AHS), which later became Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Greater New York. It also helped found organizations that became the Greater New York Hospital Association (1904), United Way of New York City (1938), and
182-771: Was a prominent lawyer and secretary of Cathedral of St. John the Divine . George Macculloch Miller was born in 1832 in Morristown, New Jersey . He was a son of politician Jacob W. Miller and Mary Louisa Macculloch. His father and J. Pierpont Morgan were directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad . He graduated from the Burlington College in New Jersey in 1850 and later Harvard Law School . George Macculloch Miller and several others began
196-802: Was to have a second collection in churches across the United States and have the money disbursed to hospitals for assistance to indigents. This developed into a larger organization eventually becoming the United Hospital Fund . He married Elizabeth Odgen Hoffman. She was the daughter of Lindley Murray Hoffman and Susan Ogden. Together they had: He died on November 14, 1917, at his home, 270 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. His grandson, George Macculloch Miller III (d. 1972) married Flora Payne Whitney in Cairo, Egypt in 1927. United Hospital Fund The United Hospital Fund of New York ( UHF )
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