Natalie Levkovich, longtime Chief Executive Officer of the Health Federation of Philadelphia, has been honored with the Unsung Hero Award from SEAMAAC, one of the oldest and largest refugee-founded agencies in the Philadelphia region.
The Health Federation of Philadelphia’s Building Digital Resiliency Project was among six local programs to receive funding through the City of Philadelphia’s Digital Literacy Alliance this fall. The funding opportunity focused on supporting new ways to engage Philadelphians as volunteers, peer leaders, and community ambassadors.
José Rodriguez, M.S., Senior Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Health Federation of Philadelphia, was named a 2025 Diversity in Business honoree by the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Holly Hainsworth, MA, will give a presentation on digital navigation and its role in the community health center space as part of the Digital Health Equity Taskforce annual meeting this week.
The Health Federation of Philadelphia, with funding support from Merck, is launching a $1.5 million initiative to improve cancer screening outreach, navigation to care and outcomes, with a focus on breast and colorectal cancers among underserved populations in Philadelphia.
Natalie Levkovich, longtime Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) CEO, recently announced that she will step down from her position in spring 2025. Ms. Levkovich, who celebrated her 40th year of service to HFP in 2024, has served in an executive leadership capacity with the agency since 1987.
The Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) is extremely proud to announce it has been awarded the 2024 Platinum Bell Seal for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America.
A new report by the Division of Substance Use Prevention and Harm Reduction (SUPHR) at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Health Federation of Philadelphia’s Substance Use Response, Guidance and Education (SURGE) program, provides recommendations for best-practices in the care for individuals with xylazine-associated wounds.
Work with regional partners will include strengthening the clinical and community infrastructure and workforce, among other goals
PHILADELPHIA (March 29, 2023)
HFP received news on Friday, July 15 that our expanded Health Center Controlled Network has been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) for the three year cycle of 2022-2025. This cooperative agreement funded at $1,040,817 for the 2022-2023 grant year supports HFP’s work with 33 community health centers in Pennsylvania in support of their capacity to leverage health
HFP's Senior Director of Training and Organizational Development, Leslie Lieberman, MSW, who was recently named to Governor Wolf's Trauma-Informed PA Think Tank, shares her thoughts on a trauma-informed PA as the Wolf Administration releases Pennsylvania's Trauma-Informed PA Plan.
Philadelphians across the city can now get tested for COVID-19 in dozens of sites throughout Philadelphia. Many of these sites are Health Federation member FQHCs. With widespread testing now available, officials aren’t expecting any issues with capacity and patients showing symptoms and who fit the criteria can and should get tested and remain in isolation until they receive their results.
Philadelphia, PA – On October 19, 2019, the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) honored Health Federation of Philadelphia CEO Natalie Levkovich with its prestigious Don Bloch Award during the CFHA annual conference in Denver, Colorado.
The Don Bloch Award, CFHA’s primary organizational award of significance since 2007, is named for Don Bloch, MD, the award’s first recipient and an influential and seminal founder of CFHA. The award recognizes an individual whose work and character exemplifies Bloch and thus advances the field of collaborative care in an epic manner.
In July 2019 the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (MAAETC) was re-funded for the next five years with an award of $14.2 million.
On July 25, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded nearly $42 million in funding to 49 Health Center Controlled Networks (HCCNs) throughout the country. In total, the HHS funding will reach nearly 1,200 federally-funded health centers across all 50 states. Locally, through this grant, the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) received $910,000 for 26 participating health centers throughout Pennsylvania in its HCCN.
Philadelphia, PA – The William Penn Foundation (WPF) recently awarded the Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) a $761,050 grant to provide coordinated professional development for maternal and child home visiting programs in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, PA – The Health Federation of Philadelphia (HFP) announced today that the organization will be honored as the recipient of the American Cancer Society’s Partners in Health Award at the 2018 American Cancer Society, Greater Philadelphia Area Volunteer Awards Celebration on Thursday November 1, 2018. HFP was selected to be honored because of the great work the organization has done to make differences in the lives of people in the Philadelphia-area community.
