October 9, 2018 With funding from the AmerisourceBergen Foundation, The Health Care Improvement Foundation is partnering with Pennsylvania National Surgical Quality Improvement Program Consortium to launch a new project to prevent chronic opioid use among...

October 2, 2018 Diksha Ramnani, an MPH student at Drexel University, has joined the PURC team through March 2019.  Diksha will support PURC's working groups, especially the Active Surveillance Working Group where she will be analyzing patterns and indicators of...

September 28, 2018 HCIF highlights is our monthly newsletter that provides updates on all of our current programs, including information about past events, upcoming events, progress towards meeting program goals, and program achievements.  Learn about the latest news...

September 20, 2018 Dan Callahan, an undergraduate public health student from Temple University, is joining HCIF’s population health team for the fall 2018 semester. Dan will support HCIF’s health literacy initiatives. Dan views public health through the lens of...

September 17, 2018 An estimated one in four people in Philadelphia experience food insecurity, or an inability to consistently access sufficient nutritious food. September is Hunger Action Month, but anti-hunger organizations in Philadelphia work year-round to ensure...

September 12, 2018 Sitha Dy, HCIF's PURC intern recently completed her Doctorate of Nursing dissertation presentation and defense on active surveillance at Thomas Jefferson University.  You can read a short recap of her dissertation as well as view her poster...

The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance (PHCQA) has released its annual report, 2017 Pennsylvania State of the State.  This year, PHCQA analyzed multi-year performance trends for HCAHPS patient experience measures, cancer care process measures, mortality rates,...

August 15, 2018 The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance (PHCQA) updated its website, www.PAHealthCareQuality.org, with readmission and mortality data through Q2 2017 for conditions such as heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and stroke.  This data, sourced...

July 25, 2018 The 2018 Delaware Valley Patient Safety & Quality Award call for entries officially closed last week on Tuesday, July 17. This year’s award program garnered twenty-nine submissions from ten regional PPC-contributing organizations. Thirty-four review...

July 18, 2018 HCIF highlights is our monthly newsletter that provides updates on all of our current programs, including information about past events, upcoming events, progress towards meeting program goals, and program achievements.  Learn about the latest news and...