Research, Evaluation, and Stakeholder Engagement

This project (also known as the Integrated Care Study) examines the impact of in-home and digitally-driven care management strategies for adults with multiple chronic conditions and Medicaid and Medicare/Medicaid primary insurance coverage.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a chronic disease that can negatively affect a person’s mental health, physical health outcomes, and healthcare utilization. This study aims to determine how two multidisciplinary specialty medical home approaches can best address patients, provider, and health system needs.

This study compares five ways to remotely monitor the health and wellbeing of patients with multiple chronic conditions once they return home from the hospital after treatment for sepsis or lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI).

This collaborative project to build an evaluation model for the UPMC Health Plan’s Neighborhood Center is led by UPMC Community Services and receives funding from UPMC Community HealthChoices and evaluation support from the UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care and Center for Social Impact.

The Building Capacity to Address Rural Maternal Health Disparities project aims to establish a collaborative network representing patients, caregivers, payers, providers, community organizations, policy makers, and advocacy organizations that commit to a partnership focused on eliminating severe maternal morbidity disparities in underserved, under-resourced rural communities through patient-centered outcomes research/comparative effectiveness research.

The Children’s Trauma Informed Community project aims to build a coordinated trauma informed system of care in Blair County to enhance the well-being and resilience of children, families, and those working in the child welfare system.

With funding from HRSA's Rural Communities Opioid Response (RCORP) Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health program, we will establish a consortium that uses evidence-based practices to cultivate a coordinated continuum of care that is better equipped to address the complex behavioral health (BH) needs of children and youth in several communities in Pennsylvania. The project will establish and expand sustainable BH care services for children and adolescents aged 5-17 years from these communities. 

UPMC was selected by PCORI® to join 41 other health systems as participants in PCORI®’s Health Systems Implementation Initiative (HSII), where participating health systems share experiences through a learning network and have access to funding opportunities to implement and evaluate PCORI®-funded evidence in real-world healthcare settings.

The first phase of HSII includes Capacity Building Projects which supports HSII participants to undertake activities that enhance their ability to conduct successful implementation of evidence and program evaluation under HSII. UPMC was awarded this funding in August 2023.