Limited VolunteerUnited Hospital Fund was founded by hospital trustees and other concerned New Yorkers in 1879 as an innovative approach to organizing charitable support for voluntary, nonprofit hospitals in New York City and to help solve shared problems. Known for more than a century as the nation’s oldest federated charity, UHF has played a central role in addressing critical health care issues facing New York, and in the creation of many of the organizations and institutions that today help define the city’s health care landscape, including Greater New York Hospital Association, Empire BlueCross BlueShield, United Way of New York City, New York Blood Center, Primary Care Development Corporation, New York City AIDS Fund, New York Society for Health Planning, New York Cares, Care for the Homeless, and, most recently, the New York eHealth Collaborative.