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Archived: Child Development and Preventive CareThe Commonwealth Fund's Child Development and Preventive Care Program sought to encourage, support, and sustain improvements in preventive care for young children—particularly those services dealing with their cognitive, emotional, and social development.
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Archived: Vulnerable PopulationsAs part of The Commonwealth Fund’s mission to promote delivery system improvement and innovation, the Program on Vulnerable Populations supported efforts to ensure that low-income, uninsured, and racial and ethnic minority populations are able to obtain care from high-performing health systems with the capacity to meet their special needs.
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Archived: Task Force on Academic Health CentersThe Task Force on Academic Health Centers, which existed from 1996 to 2003, sought to address the impact of a changing health care financing system on the traditional missions of academic health centers: medical education, biomedical research, specialized health care services, and, at many institutions, care for indigent and uninsured patients. Task force staff at Massachusetts General Hospital worked with analysts at Georgetown University and the Association of American Medical Colleges to develop independent information about the future of academic health centers (AHCs) and supply information to AHC leaders and policymakers. The task force was chaired by Samuel O. Thier, M.D., president and chief executive of Partners HealthCare System in Boston. David Blumenthal, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, served as program director.
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Archived: Affordable Health InsuranceAs part of The Commonwealth Fund's efforts to inform health reform policy and implementation, the now-archived Program on Affordable Health Insurance envisioned an equitable and efficient system of health coverage that makes comprehensive, continuous, and affordable coverage available to all Americans.
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Archived: The Task Force on the Future of Health InsuranceThe Task Force on the Future of Health Insurance was a national, independent, nonpartisan initiative established by The Commonwealth Fund to identify strategies to expand and improve health insurance coverage for America's workers and their families.
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Archived: Health System Performance Assessment and TrackingTo advance its goal of a high performance U.S. health care system, The Commonwealth Fund gathers and disseminates evidence of excellence in health care from across the country and the world. This work is intended to show what is possible to achieve, and to stimulate health care providers, policymakers, and stakeholders to take action to improve performance in all facets of care.
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Archived: State InnovationsThe Commonwealth Fund's State Innovations Program aimed to improve state and national health system performance by supporting, stimulating, and spreading integrated, state-level strategies for expanding access to care and promoting high-quality, efficient care, particularly for vulnerable populations.
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Archived: Program on Medicare's FutureThrough its Program on Medicare's Future, The Commonwealth Fund worked to enhance Medicare's ability to protect access to care for disabled, low-income, chronically ill, institutionalized, and other vulnerable beneficiaries; increase the effectiveness of Medicare in providing beneficiaries with access to the care they need while maintaining the program's viability; and design and implement improvements in Medicare that can be leveraged to improve the efficiency and quality of the health care system as a whole.
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Archived: International Program in Health Policy and InnovationThe program's key activities included high-level international policy forums, the Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Innovation, and an annual international survey on health policy issues.