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We support independent research on health care issues and make grants to promote better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency in health care, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including people of color, people with low income, and those who are uninsured.
Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. The Commonwealth Fund has made a commitment to become an antiracist organization. That commitment extends not only to our research agenda, our grantmaking, and our communications, but also to all aspects of our internal operations and interactions — from our endowment management and hiring practices to the ways in which staff members relate to ...
The Commonwealth Fund is a private U.S. foundation whose stated purpose is to "promote a high-performing health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, and people of color." It is active in a number of areas related to health care and health policy.
The mission of the Commonwealth Fund is to promote a high-performing, equitable health care system that promotes better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency in health care, particularly for society’s most vulnerable, including people of color, people with low income, and those who are uninsured.
A Commitment to Improving the Health of All Americans In this video, current and former leaders of the Commonwealth Fund reflect on the organization’s century of contributions to advancing access to high-quality, affordable health care in the U.S.
The novel coronavirus has exposed and exacerbated existing weaknesses that have long been the focus of the Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on State Health System Performance.First, because most Americans get their health insurance through an employer, recent job losses have widened coverage gaps that existed prior to the crisis.
Since its founding in 1918, the Commonwealth Fund has sought to expand the availability of affordable, high-quality health care to all Americans.
The last attempt by Congress to undo the ACA — the Graham-Cassidy bill — came in September. To gauge its potential impact, the Commonwealth Fund’s Sara Collins looked to Congressional Budget Office estimates of earlier Republican repeal-and-replace proposals to show how the bill would lead to at least 32 million people losing their health coverage, and would threaten the health care of ...
Child Health Demonstration Program. The Commonwealth Fund’s Child Health Demonstration, carried out from 1922 to 1929, sought to test whether a combination of preventive services, coordinated care, sanitation improvements, and health education could improve the lives of children.
State Rankings. Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Iowa, and Connecticut are the top-ranked states according to the 2020 Scorecard, which assesses all 50 states and the District of Columbia on more than 45 measures of access to health care, quality of care, service use and costs of care, health outcomes, and income-based health care disparities.
