A Private Foundation Working Toward a High Performance Health System
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December 5, 2005 - Commonwealth Fund vice president Sara R. Collins presents the findings from the EBRI/Commonwealth Fund Consumerism in Health Care Survey, released at a Employee Benefits Research Institute-Commonwealth Fund forum held December 8, 2005 in Washington, DC. Play »
February 2, 2004 - This unique project, made with partial support from The Commonwealth Fund, dramatizes communication between patients and their doctors, tensions between modern medicine and cultural beliefs, and the ongoing burdens of racial and ethnic discrimination. Robert Phillips, a 29-year-old black man, has been waiting three years for a kidney transplant. He's frustrated with the medical bureaucracy and feels that black patients may not be readily referred for a new kidney because physicians think "they're just going to ruin it anyway." Play »
February 2, 2004 - This unique project, made with partial support from The Commonwealth Fund, dramatizes communication between patients and their doctors, tensions between modern medicine and cultural beliefs, and the ongoing burdens of racial and ethnic discrimination. Justine Chitsena, a 4-year-old girl from Laos, needs surgery for a congenital heart defect. Her grandmother adheres to traditional Laotian and Buddhist beliefs and worries that the scar will affect Justine's spirit in her subsequent lives, while her mother worries that her family will blame her if something goes wrong. Play »