Health Care Improvement Foundation

“The federal form 990 is prepared by an independent cpa firm and is presented to the foundation for review. Hcif representatives review a draft of the return and then present it to the finance committee. After the finance committee reviews a draft of the 990, a copy is provided to all board members for a review. At the next scheduled board meeting, the finance committee will move to have the 990 accepted by the governing body. After acceptance, the 990 is filed.”

“All employees and board members are requested to disclose and review annually any potential conflicts of interest. The board adopted and implemented a conflict of interest policy that requires annual attestation. Board members are asked to refrain from voting and recuse themselves from related discussions when a conflict arises. Employees are required to disclose any conflicts and refrain from participation in any actions which could give rise to conflicts except upon approval of the board after full disclosure.”

“The compensation review process includes a self-assessment component and an in-person interview with the executive committee.”

“The compensation review process includes a self-assessment component performed by the president of the organization continuing with an in-person interview with the executive committee. The full board of directors determines compensation for key employees, after recommendations from the executive committee.”

“No documents available to the public”

“The orgainzation is in the process of dissolving as of 6/30/25 with completion anticipated by 12/31/25.”

“Partnership for patient care (ppc) is a collaboration between independence blue cross (ibc) and the philadelphia region's hospitals with the vision to be the safest region in the country. As a signature program of hcif, this unique collaboration between payer and providers to share successful experiences and jointly fund quality and patient safety improvement initiatives has been recognized as a national model. Over the last decade- plus, ppc has funded over 26 multi-year collaboratives addressing a variety of quality and safety priorities with the region's hospitals. Safe table brings the region's hospital quality and safety leaders together to discuss patient safety events, solutions and best practices in a confidential and legally protected setting for the purpose of preventing re-occurrence and improving patient safety. Safety forum workshops help build the skills of front line patient safety staff by introducing different approaches, best practices and tools for identifying, mitigating and eliminating patient safety vulnerabilities and errors. Annual leadership summit is a major event that brings healthcare leaders together from the region's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other partner organizations to showcase ppc programs, address quality and safety priorities, and to provide a forum for networking and exchange of best practices and innovations. Pennsylvania urologic regional collaborative (purc) brings urology practices together in a physician-led, data sharing and improvement collaborative aimed at advancing the quality of diagnosis and care for men with prostate cancer. Hcif serves as the coordinating center, providing administrative, clinical, and database support for program members. Health equity data strategy (heds) focuses on supporting hospitals in reducing healthcare disparities through effective collection and utilization of racial, ethnicity, and language (real) data. Participants in this multi-year collaborative learn best practices and strategies from peers and experts in the field. Pfizer health equity data strategy brings together health care organizations across southeastern pennsylvania with the common goal of decreasing disparities in health outcomes in our communities. Hcif's aim for the project is to forge partnerships between southeast pennsylvania hospitals and community-based organizations to mitigate root causes of racial health inequities for a targeted population and to co-develop, implement and evaluate improvement strategies that effectively close the gaps in care and outcomes in each of the respective local communities. Through this program, hcif plans to implement a community-engaged approach where hospital teams would first analyze data to identify the health outcomes and/or patient populations with the greatest rates of racial inequities and collaborate with trusted community-based partners to develop and implement actionable strategies that address root causes and barriers to equitable outcomes. Hcif excellence in health care award promotes best practices in patient safety and quality in the southeast pa region through recognizing hospitals and other providers for their innovative contributions in advancing patient care and disseminating their award-winning initiatives. Capital blue cross leapfrog value-based purchasing program is a pay for improvement reimbursement program using quality and safety data from the leapfrog hospital survey. Hcif organizes and facilitates webinars and in- person shared learning symposiums that enable hospital representatives to learn about lvbpp and to discuss and share strategies to improve performance on quality and safety issues addressed in the leapfrog hospital survey. Hcif also analyzes leapfrog survey data and variations in regional performance to identify trends, strengths, and opportunities for improvement. Penn-j sos (previously posse) is a quality improvement program that focuses on preventing chronic opioid use among post-surgical patients.”

“Collaborative opportunities to advance community health (coach) is an initiative that brings together hospital/health system, public health, and community partners to address community health needs in southeastern pennsylvania. Coach has provided a structure for participants to explore collaborative implementation strategies as hospitals/health systems respond to community health needs assessments (chna) through implementation plans mandated by the affordable care act. Coach focuses on two areas: 1.) food insecurity - with our partners, we are working on a dashboard that allows hospitals and social service agencies to understand where food resources are located throughout the city, 2.) trauma-informed care - we are developing assessments and educational opportunities for stakeholders to incorporate components of trauma-informed care in their processes. Pennsylvania department of health diabetes grant: through funding from the pennsylvania department of health and in supplement to the collaborative opportunities to advance community health (coach) program, hcif was able to develop a training series of five video-based modules on social needs and food security to prepare staff at multiple levels of a health system to respond to patients' social needs through action-oriented approach. Learners can watch each module in the suggested order or assign certain modules to team members depending on their role in assessing and addressing social needs. Coach is an initiative that brings together hospitals/health systems, public health, and community partners to address community health needs in southeastern pennsylvania. Coach is sponsored by the hospital and healthsystem association of pennsylvania (hap) and facilitated by hcif. Health literacy initiatives: hcif manages the pennsylvania health literacy coalition and brings together hospitals, healthcare organizations, and community-based partners to address the health literacy needs in the state. Under this project, hcif has also worked to improve immigrant health literacy. Hcif has been a sole contractor to the state for this program for over a decade and has trained thousands of health care providers and stakeholders regarding best practices in health literacy. Heart disease prevention (cdc 1817): hcif convenes a number of stakeholders to advance blood pressure self-monitoring and seeks to improve blood pressure and cholesterol control in the city, especially among philadelphians with medicaid coverage and residents of areas of the city shown to have poor cardiovascular outcomes.”

“The organization has an employee lease agreement with the hospital and healthsystem association of pennsylvania ("hap"). The salaries and benefits reported on this federal form 990 represents amounts paid for employees performing services for the organization under this agreement. Hap reports the employees on their form w-3.”

“Fees for service 245,696 84,382 0”