By Nadeen Makhlouf NYC went on pause as of March 22nd and social distancing has been implemented as one of the major measures to help curb the COVID-19 pandemic.  In order to continue essential healthcare services, providers across all specialties are providing...

Staten Island PPS is offering a platform for PPSs statewide to identify individuals and families in their respective service areas who wish to report any new or worsening needs during the COVID outbreak. The COVID-19 chat bot is simple, fast, and designed to identify...

Since the start of the spread of the novel coronavirus, Staten Island PPS has been working to spread real-time information and resources to the Staten Island community through email, text message and a COVID-19 website page.   Since March 19th, the PPS...

The novel coronavirus pandemic has quickly changed daily life across the country, including the way people in our communities seek health and social care. It is an alarming and confusing time for anyone trying to navigate rapidly evolving changes to much needed...

  Written by Nadeen Makhlouf   Peer advocates are uniquely positioned to help alleviate the burden by focusing on clients coming into the emergency room for Substance use and behavioral health related illness during the COVID pandemic. New York has been...

In partnership with the Australian Healthcare & Hospitals Association (AHHA), the Continuous Improvement in Care – Cancer (CIC Cancer) research project will be hosting an inaugural conference in to raise awareness of value-based healthcare in March 2021. Hear from...

DSRIP has created more healthcare innovation in the last five years than the preceding 20. By placing value over volume as the centerpiece of care delivery, institutions whose focus was previously heads in beds and high cost procedures were challenged to rapidly shift...

Friends of Mariners Harbor honored the four youth participants who completed their 6-month Youth Ambassador Program focused on improving healthcare delivery on Staten Island. For their commitment, each youth received a $750 scholarship from Staten Island PPS towards...

Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Conte, and Chief Information Officer, Anyi Chen, were published in the International Journal of Computational Medicine and Healthcare, along with other leaders in healthcare. The study includes publicly reported and risk adjusted,...

Staten Island PPS launched a new app and program that helps connect individuals and families to health and social service resources. The Social Determinant of Health App and program were launched on July 1, 2019 with 19 PPS partner organizations. With the help of...

  Staten Island PPS had the pleasure of hosting teams from Pennsylvania and Florida on Wednesday, December 11th to discuss transformational initiatives in substance use disorder services. MIT connected Staten Island PPS to McKinsey & Company who is working...

    Staten Island PPS has partnered with the MIT Sloan School of Management Health Systems Innovation Initiative  to bring together partners from across the nation to form a National Collaborative Consortium on Substance Use Disorder, with the aim of...

  The inaugural SWI Pop Up highlighted strategies for finding and engaging those individuals who are typically considered the hardest to reach. Executive Director, Dr. Joseph Conte, and Senior Director Workforce Transformation, William Myhre, joined panelists...

  Thank you to American Hospital Association for the Workforce Capacities case study! Read all about Staten Island PPS’s collaboration with the College of Staten Island and 1199/SEIU Training and Education fund to create workplace learning programs, the...

  Breaking bad news is one of the most difficult types of conversations for healthcare providers to have with their patients. Paula McAvoy and Maura Ellis at Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) got to collaborate with fellow SIUH peers to do something about...