Partners
Health Quality Partners (HQP) is able to do great work in innovating, testing, and implementing new models of Advanced Preventive Care because of the support of wonderful partner organizations. Our partners are some of the most visionary leaders in health care today. They are deeply committed to the missions and populations they serve. Recognizing that breakthrough innovations do not arise from weak or short-lived efforts, these partners have made strong and sustained commitments to our work. We thank them.
HQP continues to seek out select, long-term strategic partners interested in scaling, adapting or further innovating our model of Advanced Preventive Care. We are especially interested in companies that see the opportunity to use Advanced Preventive Care to grow their business by improving the health of vulnerable populations. If you think your organization's purpose and objectives align with ours, please contact us to brainstorm the possibilities.
HQP continues to seek out select, long-term strategic partners interested in scaling, adapting or further innovating our model of Advanced Preventive Care. We are especially interested in companies that see the opportunity to use Advanced Preventive Care to grow their business by improving the health of vulnerable populations. If you think your organization's purpose and objectives align with ours, please contact us to brainstorm the possibilities.
Current Partners
Doylestown Health (DH) - Founded in 1923 by the Village Improvement Association (VIA), Doylestown Hospital, now a part of Doylestown Health, has a long-standing tradition of community service. DH has been a major supporter of HQP's pioneering work since HQP's formation in 2000. As a major health system partner to HQP, Doylestown Health supports HQP with recruiting, hiring, HR support, and the data needed for HQP to provide service to vulnerable populations in the region. HQP provides Doylestown Health its Advanced Preventive Care service, advice on program design, process improvement, and data analyses for improving population health. Together, HQP and DH have developed a breakthrough data aggregating and analysis capability that enables the health system to identify vulnerable populations in their community. HQP and DH, in collaboration with their clinically integrated network, Doylestown Healthcare Partnership (DHP), are creating an enterprise-wide system of care management, care coordination, and Advanced Preventive Care that brings a new level of population health management to the region.
Martin's Point Health Care (MPHC) - Martin's Point Health Care, based in Portland, Maine is a not-for-profit health care organization with primary care health centers in Maine and New Hampshire, as well as health insurance plans for Medicare beneficiaries, military retirees, and families. MPHC is partnering with HQP to replicate our Advanced Preventive Care model on behalf of their health plan members. Our work together began in Jan 2017 and is continuing to mature into a highly productive and effective partnership. MPHC is a dynamic and growing organization that put's its patients/members first and is taking the long view on developing effective population health management capabilities.
hMetrix - After years of searching for an IT development partner with creativity, big data analytical prowess, and a passion for improving health care, HQP entered into a strategic partnership with hMetrix in 2013. Under the insightful and experienced leadership of George Chalissery, hMetrix has helped HQP develop a comprehensive suite of highly advanced and scalable IT capabilities for implementing a robust and full-featured population health management system unlike any other. The SPERO® system derives from and enables the disciplined design, culture, and capabilities of HQP’s Advanced Preventive Care model. SPERO®, is available to organizations that would like to implement HQP's model of Advanced Preventive Care or work to design and implement new models that will require customized data collection and analytics for managing implementation and assessing outcomes.
Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers (CCHP) - Based in Camden, NJ, CCHP has been a pioneering organization and inspiration to many in the healthcare field for championing the recognition of the impact of social determinants (including early trauma, substance abuse, violence, education, housing, social isolation, poverty, racism) on the health and health care related costs of vulnerable populations. HQP has been privileged to collaborate with and provide periodic support and advice to CCHP over the years with HQP's CEO (Dr. Ken Coburn) serving as faculty in some of CCHP's educational offerings to train and mentor the next generation of "hot spotters". The opportunity to contribute to CCHP's development, the National Center for Complex Health and Social Needs, and collaborate on projects of major significance, has been exciting and continues to evolve. HQP has benefited from and is grateful for the support and recognition it has received from Kathleen Noonan, Executive Director, the entire CCHP team, and its founder and former Exec. Dir., Dr. Jeffrey Brenner.
Peterson Center on Healthcare - Established by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Peterson Center on Healthcare is a non-profit organization committed to accelerating "the adoption of innovative solutions that improve quality and lower cost on a national scale". Their savvy and creative team have contributed inspiration, insights, and funding for Project STIR (Scaling Through Innovations In Replication). Launched in 2018, Project STIR has made significant progress toward discovering how to design systems to spread effective models of complex care by supporting adopting organizations to learn and implement these models of care.
Penn Nursing; NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health (NCTH) – NCTH is an exceptional fellowship of health services researchers led by HQP Board member, Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, the Marion S. Ware Professor in Gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health. HQP and NCTH are undertaking several research projects to investigate and more thoroughly understand how HQP’s model of advanced preventive care works, and how it can be improved. The current research projects provide an extraordinary opportunity for HQP to collaborate with a team of world-class researchers with deep expertise in both health services research and the science of nursing. Partnerships in Excellence, launched by the NCTH with support from NewCourtland, Inc. is also helping to make this work possible.
Salveo Healthcare Services - Based in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, the team from Salveo did a global evidence-based search for a partner that could help them bring greater value to the health plan members of StLukesHealth. They selected HQP's model of Advanced Preventive Care and began working with HQP in 2017 to help them implement an adaptation of the model on behalf of members at higher risk for poor health outcomes. The project is the first international engagement for HQP helping to transform us into a "global" purveyor and innovator of population health management systems.
Veralon – Veralon is a health care consulting firm created through the merger of DGA Partners and Health Strategies & Solutions, that provides a wide range of services to health care organizations. In 2013, HQP and DGA Partners began to work together to help HQP respond to a steady rise in requests to serve as a consultant helping to design and implement effective population health management programs. Through its continued partnership with and support from Veralon, HQP has an increased capacity to offer its expertise through Veralon's consulting engagements.
Past Partners
Aetna - Aetna is one of the nation's leaders in health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, disability insurance, and employee benefits. In December 2009, HQP and Aetna began an innovative collaboration to evaluate HQP's advanced preventive care, community-based nurse care management model, as an additional service to certain chronically ill Medicare Advantage members in eastern Pennsylvania. As a result of improving health outcomes and lowering health care cost, this productive partnership was renewed in 2013, and expanded in 2014. The extraordinary constancy to purpose that Aetna demonstrated and its willingness to engage in a creative collaboration provided HQP 7 years of continuous, uninterrupted support making it possible for HQP to operate at high levels of effectiveness to improve the lives of thousands of chronically ill and vulnerable older adults.
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) - In 2013, HQP worked with the DHMH to support the design and planning of its State Innovation Model. The DHMH’s State Innovation Model was designed to improve the health and better control the cost of health care for all Marylanders - especially the most vulnerable. The DHMH developed the fundamental concept of a Community Integrated Medical Home (CIMH), which combines the benefit of a flexible approach to the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) with community-based preventive interventions targeting vulnerable populations. This framework aligns closely with the experience HQP has had in designing and implementing population health interventions in collaboration with primary care practices on a regional basis. HQP facilitated stakeholder input, and assisted in drafting a State Innovation Plan for DHMH to use as a reference point for refining a final State Innovation Model.
St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) - Located in Langhorne, PA, St. Mary Medical Center is a comprehensive health system. SMMC began supporting the implementation of the HQP model through various initiatives among its owned and affiliated practices in 2011. In late 2013, HQP worked with SMMC to design a unique model of care for Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure participating in SMMC's CMMI Bundled Payment for Care Improvement (Model 2) initiative. HQP delivered that model of care for individuals with heart failure from Jan 2014 thru Dec 2015. Operating as a full collaborative partner during that time, SMMC supported HQP with recruiting, hiring, HR support, and data.
Crozer-Keystone Health System (CKHS) - Crozer-Keystone Health System is a 5-hospital system providing a broad spectrum of services across diverse communities and populations in its service area in Delaware County, PA. Recognition that CKHS is a leader in community health, is evident by the many awards for excellence and innovation in community health they have received. Partnering with HQP from 2011 to 2017, CKHS supported implementation of the HQP model in selected owned practices. As a full collaborative partner, CKHS supported HQP with recruiting, hiring, HR support, and data.
River Health ACO (RHACO) - Based in Harrisburg, PA, River Health ACO is an Accountable Care Organization with an experienced leadership team and extensive health care assets made possible through a collaborative model that joins member health systems and physician groups together. RHACO was "formed to improve the cost, quality, access and patient experience for residents of central Pennsylvania." In January 2015, HQP began helping RHACO (initially as a Medicare Shared Savings Program participant) deploy HQP's model of advanced preventive care for its chronically ill members as a key piece of its population health management system. In January 2016, RHACO become one of the first 21 organizations participating in the Next Generation ACO model in the U.S., but withdrew from that program early in 2016.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) - Staff within the former Office of Research, Development and Information (ORDI), and subsequently within the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovations (CMMI) were key partners in HQP’s successful implementation of the Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration (MCCD). The MCCD was a prospective randomized controlled trial of 15 of the nation’s leading care coordination programs for chronically ill Medicare beneficiaries. Launched in 2002, the goal of the demonstration was to gain deeper insight into what kinds of programs could achieve better quality care and simultaneously lower health care costs for this vulnerable population. Because of its favorable impact on mortality, hospitalizations, and cost among higher-risk Medicare beneficiaries, HQP's program was the only program (of the original 15) that CMS continued to support beyond June 2010. The demo ended Dec 2014, after 12 years and 9 months.
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) - As the CMS contracted evaluator of the MCCD for nearly 13 years, MPR’s team has helped identify the impacts that HQP’s model has had, and determine how to better identify target populations for which the program yields net savings. The team at MPR has deep expertise and knowledge of program evaluation. Their work has been invaluable in uncovering key design and operational elements needed for the continued innovation, improvement, and refinement of effective models of advanced preventive care.