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The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that aims 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, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults.
Number of Employees 34
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NAICS Code Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities: 541720
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Report Compares Health-Care Platforms of Presidential Candidates
- 2008-10-02
Both presidential candidates want to make health insurance available to more Americans, but each has proposed a vastly different route to reform, a new report shows.Health-care reform is high on the national agenda, with 116 million adults either uninsured, underinsured, experiencing a problem with medical bills, or denying themselves needed...
Medical home demo seeks four coordinating centers
- 2008-10-01
The Commonwealth Fund is gearing up to turn 50 safety net clinics into models of the patient-centered medical home. The demonstration project, called the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, will run for 5 years with the goal of creating an implementation plan that can be replicated at practices and...
Report gives U.S. health care system a D-minus
- 2008-09-01
Access to care has declined significantly since 2003, with 42% of all working-age adults either uninsured or underinsured in 2007, according to a national health system scorecard from The Commonwealth Fund, which found that health care system performance in the United States has worsened slightly overall since 2006. According...
Health insurance conference offered in OKC
- 2007-10-30
The third annual Summit on the High Cost of Health Insurance is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Nov. 9 at the Francis Tuttle Career Technology Center in Oklahoma City. Karen Davis, CEO of The Commonwealth Fund, will be the keynote speaker. The Commonwealth Fund produces a...
Report: Blacks more likely to get poor elder care
- 2007-09-28
Blacks are more likely than whites to live in poor-quality nursing homes across the U.S., according to a report published in September in Health Affairs, a policy and research journal. These segregated nursing homes have serious deficiencies, lower staffing ratios and greater financial vulnerability. The Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle area was among the...
Century Foundation Fellow Maggie Mahar to Blog Live From Business and National Health Care Reform Conference, Sponsored by The Century Foundation With Support From The Commonwealth Fund and AARP.(Conference news)
- 2007-09-13
Byline: The Century Foundation Byline: The Century Foundation
Business Executives Discuss National Health Care Reform at Conference Sponsored by The Century Foundation, with support from The Commonwealth Fund, and AARP
- 2007-09-12
The Century Foundation
Business Executives Discuss National Health Care Reform at Conference Sponsored by The Century Foundation, with Support from The Commonwealth Fund, and AARP
- 2007-09-11
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Business Executives Discuss National Health Care Reform at Conference Sponsored by The Century Foundation, With Support From The Commonwealth Fund and AARP.(Conference news)
- 2007-09-11
Byline: The Century Foundation Byline: The Century Foundation
Study shows minorities less likely to have health coverage.(Statistical notes)(Brief article)
- 2006-10-01
Minorities in the United States are at much higher risk of being uninsured for healthcare, according to an analysis by The Commonwealth Fund Biennial Health Insurance Survey (2005) released in August. The Commonwealth Fund in New York City is a private foundation that seeks...
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