Health Policy Update: April 17, 2025
In an effort to help our Funding Partners better understand the changing health policy landscape in the new administration and Congress, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is expanding the GIH Health Policy Update newsletter to three issues per month. Working in collaboration with Leavitt Partners, a leading health care policy consultancy, we are adding new installments of the newsletter on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, while we will continue to partner with Trust for America’s Health on the installment released on the second Wednesday of the month.
Long-Term Care Quality: Facing the Challenges of an Aging Population
For all the sophistication of our health care system, the United States does not have a highly developed and supportive long-term care network that takes good care of its elderly. This Issue Brief offers an overview of the primary factors influencing the quality of long-term care services – including demographics, service providers, financing, and policy and regulation – and profiles innovative grantmaker programs.
Advancing Quality through Improved Patient Safety
Despite the most sophisticated medical care in the world, each year more Americans die at the hands of our health care system than from some of life’s deadliest diseases. This Issue Focus presents information on what medical errors are, how they occur, and what strategies grantmakers can adopt to prevent them.
A Profile of New Health Foundations, March 2001
This March 2001 GIH report profiles new health foundations.
Strategies for Shaping Public Policy: A Guide for Health Funders
Many foundations have shed away from funding in public policy in part because of confusion over federal tax rules governing lobbying for nonprofit organizations. As a guide to foundations on funding in health policy, this publication is intended to clear up some of the misconceptions and help funders engage in public policy work. It also presents examples of the range of public policy activities now being undertaken by health funders.
Health Philanthropy and Communities: Grantmakers Share Their Views
This GIH Issue Focus recaps a preconference session at the GIH Annual Meeting, in which Sue Bunting (Foundation for Seacoast Health), Ed Meehan (The Dorothy Rider Pool Health Care Trust), and Patricia O’Connor (The Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati) addressed the role of foundations in communities.
Peer Assessment: A Pilot Program for Health Philanthropy
This GIH Issue Focus discusses GIH’s new peer assessment pilot program.
Long-Term Care Quality: Facing the Challenges of an Aging Population
As our population ages, and the need for long-term care services grows, issues surrounding the quality of care, as well as the quality of life, will become increasingly important. Based on a recent GIH Issue Dialogue, this Issue Focus explores ways in which grantmakers can partner with policymakers, health care professionals, advocacy groups, and patients and their families to improve the quality of long-term care.
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