Health Quality Partners

Health Quality Partners (HQP) is a not for profit health care quality improvement organization and experienced provider of care management, wellness and lifestyle behavior change programs. HQP offers a unique and innovative model of ‘Coordinated Care’ that combines both care and disease management interventions with effective evidence based lifestyle behavior change interventions for weight loss and increasing physical activity.

HQP is based in Doylestown Pennsylvania and serves eastern Pennsylvania. The HQP team brings a strong knowledge base and experience in the areas of population based care models including geriatric care and disease management programs, hospice care, public health, HIV and AIDS, and healthcare quality improvement.

Prior to the creation of Health Quality Partners in July 2001 a majority of the current HQP team comprised the former medical management team of PennCARE, an 11 hospital provider-led health care delivery system in eastern Pennsylvania. The PennCARE system motivated by an at-risk agreement with Aetna (USHealthcare at the time) served an average population of 90,350 members in the eastern Pennsylvania region, including 16,444 Medicare beneficiaries. The PennCARE network allowed the development and implementation of care management initiatives on a broad scale covering a 5,400 square mile region that included 11 hospitals, 771 primary care physicians and 2,150 specialists.
In addition, prior to joining PennCARE, the HQP senior leadership, Kenneth D. Coburn, MD, MPH and Sherry A. Marcantonio, MSW, were with the University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) Offices of Health and Disease Management, contributing to “Best Practices in Coordinated Care” ¹ and in program development and implementation of more than 30 disease management programs across the Penn Health System and it’s affiliates.

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1 Chen, Aronold, Randall Brown, Nancy Archibald, Sherry Aliotta, and Peter Fox. "Best Practices in Coordinated Care." Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. February 2000