About Health Quality Partners Health Quality Partners (HQP) was founded in 2001. At its core is a team of people who had worked together for years in a variety of health care delivery settings as part of either quality, medical management, disease management, or case management divisions. The impetus for health systems to create such units in the 1990's in eastern Pennsylvania was to manage capitated risk contracts with health plans by applying a population-based approach to preventive care, health risk monitoring and targeted early intervention. Few such risk arrangements proved financially viable for provider systems in the region at that time. However, our experience indicated that a population-based approach to care management could effectively augment medical service delivery and yield better health outcomes. Major Aims: - Improve population health outcomes
- Enhance patient and provider experience
- Improve quality of care and quality of life
- Reduce unnecessary health care costs over the long term
Key Areas of our Work: - Nurse-supported advanced care management models
- System redesign to improve the effectiveness, quality, and efficiency of health care delivery systems
The support of dozens of physician practices, Doylestown Hospital, and our distinguished volunteer Board of Directors has made this work possible. Core Competencies: - Systems analysis and design in a collaborative, multi-stakeholder context
- Process redesign and monitoring
- Data management and analysis
- statistical process control reporting
- population process of care and outcome measurement
- Team model design - roles, communication protocols, IT tools
- Advanced care management
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