HealthPartners
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| Nonprofit Health Care Provider and Health Insurance Company | |
| Industry | Health Care and Insurance |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Headquarters | Bloomington, Minnesota |
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Key people
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Mary Brainerd, President & Chief Executive Officer |
| Website | healthpartners.com |
HealthPartners is an integrated, nonprofit health care provider and health insurance company located in Bloomington, Minnesota offering care, coverage, research and education to its members, patients and the community.
HealthPartners was founded in 1957 as Group Health, a consumer-governed nonprofit health plan with a board of directors made up of its own members and patients. In 1992, Group Health merged with MedCenters Health Plan, and together they formed HealthPartners. On January 1, 2013 HealthPartners merged with Park Nicollet Health Services of St. Louis Park to become the new HealthPartners.
Mary Brainerd has been with HealthPartners since 1992 and was appointed president & chief executive officer beginning in 2002. On March 6, 2017, Brainerd announced her retirement effective June 1. Andrea Walsh, HealthPartners Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, will succeed Brainerd in the role of President and CEO.
Ruth Mickelsen has been the Board Chair since March 6, 2017.
The group operates as a nonprofit health care provider, serving 1.5 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide.
HealthPartners says that the cost of medical care for its members is 8 percent lower than the state average and as much as 38 percent lower than the national average.
HealthPartners family of care includes the HealthPartners Park Nicollet Care Group, a multispecialty group practice of more than 1,700 physicians representing primary care and 55 medical and surgical specialties, serving patients at more than 55 clinic locations and seven hospitals throughout the Twin Cities and Western Wisconsin.
These locations include more than 55 primary care clinics, 23 urgent care clinics, 27 in-clinic pharmacies, 15 eye care centers and 22 dental clinics.
HealthPartners operates on-site health clinics for employees of nine different organizations including: Anoka County, Minneapolis Public Schools, TURCK, Wilson Tool International, and Grede/Bernick's in St. Cloud, Minn. At Wilson Tool, a company with about 500 workers in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, health insurance costs have remained virtually flat for three years, versus double-digit increases before the clinic.
HealthPartners offers Virtuwell.com an online clinic with certified medical professionals who can diagnose and treat over 50 health problems, eliminating the need for face-to-face visits for 40% of patients who use the system.
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