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HealthPartners Joins National Health Care Reform Partnership
Partnership for Quality Care seeks High Quality, Affordable Care for Every American
March 13, 2008
Bloomington, Minn. – HealthPartners today announced that it has joined the Partnership for Quality Care, a unique coalition of some of the nation's largest and most innovative health care providers and labor unions, to help drive improvement and reform of the U.S. health care system.
The Partnership for Quality Care (PQC) includes public, private, religious, teaching and nonprofit hospitals and integrated health systems as well as more than a million health care workers across the country. PQC member organizations care for more than 50 million patients each year and include:- 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East
- Catholic Healthcare West
- Daughters of Charity Health System
- Greater New York Hospital Association
- Group Health Cooperative
- Jackson Health System
- Kaiser Permanente
- Partners HealthCare (Brigham & Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital)
- SEIU Healthcare 1199NW
- SEIU Healthcare Minnesota
- SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West
- SEIU Healthcare Committee of Interns & Residents
- SEIU Local 1991
- Service Employees International Union
"We share the commitment of our PQC partners in building a health care system that provides quality care, is affordable, accessible and improves the health of Americans." said Mary Brainerd, President & Chief Executive Officer of HealthPartners.
"This is a truly unprecedented national effort, and it is greatly strengthened by the participation of HealthPartners, an organization whose public policy platform is closely aligned with PQC's principles to reform American health care," said Dennis Rivera, PQC Chairman and Chair of SEIU Healthcare.
The Partnership for Quality Care's efforts to secure health insurance coverage for uninsured low-income children have been featured on CNN and in newspapers nationwide.
PQC's principles are to:- Ensure universal health care coverage for all Americans;
- Improve the quality and efficiency of health care services by adopting clinical best practices and promoting organized systems of care;
- Establish a stable, equitable, broad-based, and predictable health care financing system;
- Promote affordability and address rising health care costs by advancing opportunities to achieve the greatest value for our health care dollars;
- Provide meaningful individual choice of providers and plans while promoting preventive care, protecting consumers from the costs of major illnesses, and improving the management of chronic conditions; and
- Achieve greater reliability in health care coverage, including improved portability of coverage and continuity of care.
On March 19, HealthPartners will join other PQC member organizations, policy makers and others at the Confronting the Chronic Care Challenge summit in Washington, D.C. The summit will be the first in a year-long series of events to present practical, real-world solutions to some of the most challenging aspects of improving and reforming health care in America.
About HealthPartners
Founded in 1957, the HealthPartners (www.healthpartners.com) family of healthcare companies serve more than one million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. It is the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation, providing care, coverage, research and education to improve the health of members, patients and the community. For the third year in a row, HealthPartners is rated one of the best commercial health plans in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, NCQA's "America's Best Health Plans 2007" and is ranked "Highest in Member Satisfaction among Commercial Health Plans in the Minnesota-Wisconsin Region" by J.D. Power and Associates.
Contact: 952-883-5223
PQC: 646-246-5906
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