New York Academy Of Medicine

Programs: Center for health policy and programs - see schedule o. Center for health policy and programs the academy's healthy aging program disseminated information on the nyc age-friendly structure and process to federal policymakers by testifying before the us senate special committee on aging. Our testimony highlighted the who model of age-friendly communities, as well as successful strategies to promote social connection and prevent isolation among older people. New york state began using age-friendly nyc's model for convening agencies in a new age-friendly new york state initiative, as announced in the new york governor's state of the state address. The academy launched "age-friendly nyc: 2017 new commitments for a city for all ages", new york city's new age-friendly action plan, which includes nearly 90 initiatives. The academy disseminated information on the nyc age-friendly structure and process to policymakers from other cities and countries through technical assistance and peer sharing to representatives from columbus, ohio and, internationally, to australia, taiwan, israel, singapore, and south korea. In the area of population health improvement, the academy continued to promote the alignment of hospital community benefit investments with evidence-based interventions that support community health improvement and community building. This included tracking aggregate hospital community benefit spending by all non-profit voluntary hospitals in new york state. A public brief was drafted on opportunities to align population health and hospital community benefit investments in the state which included and tracking alignment of hospital-specific activities -- as reported in their hospital community service plans-- with selected nys prevention agenda priority areas and dsrip related activities with the evidence-based-interventions recommended in the state prevention agenda. This information was reported to hospital ceos and local health departments at the county level. The academy heightened awareness of successful clinical-community linkages that improve health outcomes and identified the barriers and facilitators to cbo-health care partnerships. This was accomplished by conducting an applied research project of existing cbo-health care partnerships in new york city and producing a public report to highlight successes, facilitators of success, and challenges to provide information for organizations seeking to start or scale a partnership. The academy participated in the human services council value based payment commission which developed a report to inform and make recommendations to the state (and others) about cbo needs regarding participation in partnerships with health care organizations in the context of value based payment. The academy increased knowledge in the area of food policy by highlighting food as a determinant of health. This was accomplished through networking and formation of new partnerships among cbos, health systems, and hospital leaders. This included hosting the "partners in health: community food programs and hospital partnerships in new york" event, which brought together health systems, hospital leaders, and cbos working to improve local food systems, and by discussing the opportunities and challenges of addressing food as a determinant of health through community benefit and population health programs. More than 150 people attended. In the area of drug policy, the academy participated in the american college of obstetrics and gynecology conference in syracuse for upstate obstetricians. Themes included connecting evidence-based preferred clinical care for pregnant women with harm reduction care philosophy. The academy began data collection for the nyc dohmh supervised injection facility feasibility study.

library and historical collections - see schedule o. The academy library has been serving the public since 1878 with access to its broad-ranging health and medical collections. Current services include traditional library activities, public outreach including tours, classes, and workshops, cultural programming, and research support to academy fellows. The library contains about 550,000 volumes, including 32,000 rare books, and an extensive collection of books and journals in the history of medicine. Archives, manuscripts, pamphlets, and various ephemeral materials also form part of the historical collections. The center for the history of medicine and public health is the library's programming arm. The center's 2017 programming theme was "legacies of war: medical innovations and impacts," commemorating the 100th anniversary of the u. S. Entry into world war i. During the year, the center hosted five lectures on this topic. In addition, the public engaged our collections through five themed book talks mounted through the atlas obscura society and the center put on two walking tours of medical sites in manhattan. In all, the center mounted 64 events in 2017, reaching 2,500 attendees, as well as presenting 123 tours, workshops, or classes to over 840 participants. These activities included three workshops, on "visualizing and drawing anatomy" in may; "embroidering medicine" in september/october; and "engaging audiences: hybrid collections" in october. The islandora system, secured in late 2016, was fully implemented in 2017 and hosted one of our most significant new projects: "facendo il libro: the making of fasciculus medicinae, an early printed anatomy. " with funding from the gladys krieble delmas foundation and substantially completed in 2017 (and release in january 2018), the library digitized its five editions of fasciculus medicinae, dating from 1495 to 1522, and presented them with commentary. The library received funding from the national endowment for the humanities for "biography of a book," a project to conceive how users could investigate online the histories of a dozen of our most important books and manuscripts. The new york state department of education, division of library development, awarded the library's gladys brooks book and paper conservation laboratory a grant of $40,000 in late 2016, to conserve 33 printed volumes on cooking and culinary craft; this project successfully concluded at the end of june 2017.

center for health innovation - see schedule o. The center for health innovation (chi) began operating in september 2013 and its goals are to provide technical expertise and resources to develop, test and evaluate innovations in health care delivery systems that recognize the multiple behavioral, social and economic determinants of health. The chi seeks to become a leader in health reform implementation and a strategic partner to organizations interested in designing and developing innovative solutions to improve population health that work at the intersection between health care and other key determinants of health. External funding for the center during 2017 came mostly from an evaluation grant for new york's state innovation model (sim) together with funding from the european commission. We are also funded by smaller grants from the university of nebraska medical center, the greater rochester health foundation, mount sinai (robert wood johnson foundation), the tsinghua-berkeley shenzen institute, lifespan of greater rochester, the american heart association and the new york city (nyc) department of health and mental hygiene (dohmh). This year has been a very successful one in terms of grant submissions, particularly to the national institutes of health and the nyc dohmh. Most of our effort during the year focused on making sure that the sim grant is off to a good start given the financial and strategic importance of this project. Together with policy and evaluation colleagues at the academy, we oversee evaluation of a $100 million implementation of an advanced primary care model in new york state (nys). Our evaluation activities not only inform how sim activities are conducted but it has the potential to lead to the development of a self-monitoring framework that can inform progress on the sim around health care costs and utilization over time by primary care practices as well as the adoption of payment models to support this advanced primary care model. Our second key project is our pulse initiative funded by the european commission. The project is important as it allows us to partner with investigators in many european countries to address asthma and diabetes prevention in new york, barcelona, manchester, paris and singapore. The work entails the development of asthma and diabetes disease progression models as well as the development of an app and game that can help people prevent these costly chronic health conditions. Over the next few years our goals include completing our grants and contracts work with our key partners (nys department of health, european commission), build on our accomplishments by submitting research proposals and manuscripts to journals, focus on impact and vision, partner with universities in a more strategic manner, and become a leader in the population health, data analytics, and health care innovation space. We plan to do this by focusing on excelling in conducting our currently funded projects, building on ongoing partnerships, and supporting chi staff to take on leadership roles in new funded projects.