PAGNY Health and Research Foundation

In a state as large as New York, a steady stream of smart, innovative work is coming from NYHealth grantees and non-grantees alike that is relevant to NYHealth’s priority areas of Building Healthy Communities and Empowering Health Care Consumers and its focus area on Veterans’ Health.

These organizations should be elevating their work and informing key stakeholders at regional, statewide, and national conferences, meetings, and other convenings. Yet, because of a lack of resources, they are often unable to do so. To address this issue, NYHealth is awarding grants through its Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities, Consumer Empowerment, and Veterans’ Health Request for Proposals (RFP). Through this RFP, NYHealth is sponsoring low-resource organizations to attend and present at local, State, and national conferences related to these areas. In 2017, NYHealth awarded the Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) Health and Research Foundation a grant to participate in this initiative as part of its efforts to empower health care consumers.

With NYHealth funding, a physician leader and a registered nurse leader from PAGNY attended the 2017 Planetree International Conference on Patient-Centered Care. By attending this conference, staff members gained new perspectives on the quality of care and services as seen through the eyes of the patient. The staff members were able to use the skills and best practices learned from this conference to teach other doctors and nurses to be conscious participants in patient experience improvement activities.

View a complete list of conference participation grantees.