The 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.

In 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.

The goal of The Commonwealth Fund's Program on Quality of Care for Underserved Populations was to improve the quality of health care delivered to low-income Americans and members of racial and ethnic minority groups, and to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities.

As 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.

The 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.

As 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.

The 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.

To 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.

The 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.