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HealthPartners at a glance
Founded in 1957, HealthPartners is the largest consumer governed non-profit health care organization in the nation providing health care services, health plan financing and administration, research and medical education
About 10,000 physicians, dentists and staff in 70 locations in the Twin Cities, St. Cloud, Duluth and western Wisconsin
HealthPartners health plans
More than one million medical and dental members in Minnesota and nationwide
Plans include national networks, open access networks, tiered network plans, co-pay plans, deductible plans, self insured plans, senior, individual, dental plans and health savings accounts
Offers national health plan coverage through an affiliation with CIGNA HealthCare
Offers after hours nurse CareLine, Nurse Navigators to help patients with complex cases, Baby Line and disease management programs and services for 32 conditions
For three years in a row, the only Minnesota health plan ranked in the top 50 nationwide in U.S. News/NCQA "America's Best Health Plans"
Top rated plan in Minnesota according to eValue8/National Business Coalition on Health. HealthPartners is the national benchmark in six out of seven categories in the 2007 eValue8 report
Health improvement
HealthPartners 10,000 Steps program
HealthPartners Frequent Fitness program with more than 750 participating health clubs
Phone courses includes counseling for weight loss, stress management, smoking cessation and other programs
Pay for performance
First in the nation to reward providers who meet highest clinical standards of care
Awarded $21 million in 2007 to medical groups and hospitals for improving patient care
HealthPartners Medical Group and Dental Group
Nearly 700 physicians, 60 dentists practicing at 50 primary, specialty and dental clinics in the Twin Cities and St. Cloud. Six urgent care centers, seven eye care centers, Integrated Home Care and Hospice of the Lakes, Regions Hospital and HealthPartners Specialty Center in St. Paul and Westfields Hospital in New Richmond, Wisconsin
Electronic medical records
First in Minnesota to offer patients the ability to directly schedule doctors' appointments online
Other HealthPartners Online Patient Services include refilling prescriptions, viewing test results, exchanging e-mail with physicians and clinic staff, paying bills, accessing children's immunization records
Working to establish community based electronic medical records by collaborating with Fairview Health Services, Allina Hospitals and Clinics and the University of Minnesota to provide secure and confidential access to electronic medical records as patients move between health systems
The largest dental clinic system in Minnesota to implement electronic dental records and electronic x-rays
HealthPartners Research Foundation
Approximately 250 projects annually with the primary goal to apply research to medical practice
Institute for Medical Education
Trains more than 500 resident physicians at Regions Hospital each year and more than 240 continuing medical education programs for medical professionals
First comprehensive simulation center for patient safety in the U.S.
Community partners
- American Diabetes Association
- American Heart Association
- East Metro Adult Crisis Stabilization
- Minnesota Palliative Care Partnership
- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Minnesota
HealthPartners Inc. is a not-for-profit health plan organization (501c4) per the Minnesota state statutes, which require that all health plans be not for profit.
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