Our Partner - Davita HealthCare Partners

As a partner, DaVita Healthcare Partners brings the people, capabilities, and deep expertise to successfully deliver Population Health Management competencies to each of its markets and operating partners. HealthCare Partners’ strength is in their steadfast commitment to the guiding principle of coordinated care. Primary care physicians act as clinical quarterbacks of a multidisciplinary support team working directly with patients to drive higher value care. 

Since 1992, Healthcare Partners has been committed to developing innovative models of healthcare delivery that improve a patient’s quality of life while containing healthcare costs.  Today, their network of over 15,000 employed and affiliated physicians strive daily to bring the benefits of coordinated care to more than 1.5 million patients throughout the country.

UMMS has engaged Davita HealthCare Partners to improve the inpatient medical management capabilities at each of the hospitals in the system.  The goals of the engagement with DHCP are to:

• Improve the quality of care
• Improve patient satisfaction
• Reduce unnecessary admissions
• Reduce readmissions
• Reduce length of stay

UMMS’ engagement with DHCP focuses on specific areas:

• Designing, developing, and enhancing hospitalist programs
• Designing, developing, and enhancing transitions of care programs.  This includes developing collaborative programs with post-acute providers including Skilled Nursing Facilities, Home Health Programs, Hospices, and other providers.
• Enhancing UMMS’ existing care management and discharge planning programs
• Identifying alternative sites of care for patients to utilize as an alternative to the emergency room or inpatient stays