Recent Grants
To see a list of all grants by program, click on the program name.
A High Performance Health System
Commission on a High Performance Health System
Harris Interactive, Inc.
In 2007, the Fund re-launched its quarterly series of online surveys of health care opinion leaders as a collaboration with the weekly Modern Healthcare.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Issues Research, Inc.
The Commonwealth Fund seeks to stimulate higher performance across the health care system by educating health care providers, policymakers, and others about the nature and scope of performance deficits, the implications for the health and well-being of Americans, and promising approaches for addressing problems.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Health Care Quality Improvement and Efficiency
Group Health Cooperative
Evidence suggests that by aligning medical treatment options more closely with the informed preferences of patients, we can encourage more appropriate use of services in the United States.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Health Research and Educational Trust
More than half of hospitals in the United States belong to a multi-hospital system, accounting for the majority of all patient admissions.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Johns Hopkins University
Proper coordination of patient care is a hallmark of a high performance health system.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Medical College of Wisconsin
The United States is moving toward greater transparency and value in health care, yet little is known about the impact public reporting has had on quality.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Partners HealthCare System, Inc.
Electronic prescribing systems enable the exchange of medication information among clinicians, pharmacies, patients, payers, and suppliers.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Program on Medicare's Future
Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
The complex and costly health care needs of Americans who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid would be better addressed if there were more coordination across the two programs, but efforts to achieve this goal have been largely unsuccessful in the more than 40 years since they began.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
The Urban Institute
While Medicare has in general been successful in ensuring that its beneficiaries have access to affordable health care, the sickest and poorest beneficiaries often face financial burdens that threaten this access.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Program on the Future of Health Insurance
Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
Health care will likely remain near the top of the nation's policy agenda over the next year.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
State Innovations
Trustees of Tufts College
The Massachusetts Health Insurance Connector, an integral part of the state's comprehensive health insurance reform, was established to facilitate the purchase of quality, affordable health insurance by small businesses and individuals who lack access to employer-sponsored health coverage.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
International Health Policy & Practice
International Program in Health Policy and Practice
Johns Hopkins University
Comparing the health care system in the United States with the systems of other industrialized countries reveals striking differences in spending, availability and use of services, and health outcomes.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
The Nuffield Trust
The annual symposia on health care quality improvement sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and the United Kingdom's Nuffield Trust have provided a unique opportunity to build relationships among senior policymakers in the United States and the United Kingdom, showcase innovations in quality improvement, and facilitate the exchange of ideas on what works and what does not.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Special Populations
Child Development and Preventive Care
National Committee for Quality Assurance
The ability to measure the quality of well-child care is essential to the successful implementation of quality improvement initiatives for children.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
New England Medical Center Hospitals, Inc.
There is much variability in the quality of developmental monitoring at well-child care visits, partly because an efficient, standardized process has not been developed.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
The George Washington University
Federal policy can be a powerful tool for improving children's access to health care and the quality of services they receive.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
With Commonwealth Fund support, the Vermont Child Health Improvement Program (VCHIP)—a self-sustaining organization that builds on a broad-based partnership that takes a measurement-based, systems approach to improving pediatric care—has been successfully replicated in 10 states.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
Quality of Care for Frail Elders
AcademyHealth
Launched in 2003, AcademyHealth's Long-Term Care Colloquium series provides a unique forum for exploring the most important issues facing long-term care consumers, providers, policymakers, and researchers.See all projects with this: organization | principal investigator
