The Fund’s board of directors plays a vital role in deciding where and how the foundation should strive to make an impact, given its limited resources. At a recent meeting, Fund assistant vice president Edward L. Schor, M.D., (left) and Errol R. Alden, M.D., executive director of the American Academy of Pediatrics, spoke to the Board about the importance of supporting efforts to improve preventive care services for young children.



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he Fund carries out its broad charge of advancing the common good by supporting efforts that help people live healthy and productive lives and by assisting specific groups with serious and neglected problems. To that end, it supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy.
The foundation's current goals—which express the Fund's long-term mission and its assessment of how it can best address certain pressing social issues—are threefold:

Improve health insurance coverage and access to care for all Americans

Improve the quality of health care services and stimulate innovation in health care delivery

Promote international exchange on health care policy and practice.
The Fund's programs are organized in pursuit of those goals, following a well-defined set of principal strategies:

Goal: Improve health insurance coverage and access to care for all Americans

Help develop a health insurance system that meets the needs of a 21st century population

Focus national attention on the uninsured and emerging insurance issues

Identify, support, and assess promising state and other initiatives to expand or improve coverage

Develop and assess policy options to expand and stabilize health insurance

Help preserve and strengthen the ability of Medicare to guarantee access to health services for the nation's current and future elderly and disabled beneficiaries

Reduce the number of uninsured in New York City and connect low-income New Yorkers with better-quality primary care.
 
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Samuel O. Thier, M.D.
Chairman, Board of Directors