Grantee Name
Cornell University Weill Cornell Medical College
Funding Area
Building Healthy Communities
Publication Date
February 2017
Grant Amount
$217,505
Grant Date:
August 2014 – June 2015
There has been increasing attention to the concept of population health—the health of all the people in a geographic community.
Population health comprises more than medical care; it also includes factors such as socioeconomic status, the built environment, and education. Hospitals and accountable care organizations can play important roles as key drivers of population health, but medical professionals often have a much narrower definition of this concept. Creating a common definition of population health is essential both to assess the extent to which hospitals are working to improve population health and understand what resources are (or are not) being allocated to this important work.
In 2014, NYHealth awarded Weill Cornell Medical College a grant to gather and analyze information on the current and future role of New York State hospitals in improving population health.