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Grant
Evaluating the Impact of Medicare's Joint Replacement Bundled Payment Program on the Cost and Quality of Care- Grantee Organization: Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
- Principal Investigator: Amol Navathe, M.D., Ph.D.
Programs
Archived: Health Care in New York CityFrom 1998 to 2005, the Fund's Health Care in New York City Program worked to improve coverage and access to care for the city's most vulnerable residents. The program informed the city's policymakers and health care community by generating information on health insurance, health care utilization, and barriers to care and by supporting innovations in delivering care.
Programs
Archived: Patient Centered Coordinated CareIn support of The Commonwealth Fund’s efforts to promote delivery system improvement and innovation, the Program on Patient-Centered Coordinated Care sponsored activities aimed at improving the quality of primary health care in the United States, including efforts to make care more centered around the needs and preferences of patients and their families.
Programs
Archived: Long Term Care Quality ImprovementThe Picker/Commonwealth Fund Program on Long-Term Care Quality Improvement, a key component of the foundation's efforts to improve health care delivery and spur innovation, aimed to raise the quality of postacute and long-term care services and supports, and to improve care transitions for patients by integrating these services with the other care they receive.
Programs
Archived: Federal and State Health PolicyThe Program on Payment and System Reform was a key component of The Commonwealth Fund’s efforts to inform health reform policy.
Programs
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.
Programs
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.