WINONA, Minn. – Nineteen Minnesota hospitals, including Winona Health, have created a network to share their experience in delivering rural healthcare and control costs. Altogether the 19 hospitals plus 50 clinics will be coordinating care to 750,000 Minnesotans. The partnership, called the Headwaters High-Value Network, works out of Aitkin, population 2,100, in northern Minnesota. Rachelle Schultz, chief executive at Winona Health, is on the new partnership’s board of directors. Economies of size and scale should help Headwaters members find value-based insurance products that will improve quality, reduce costs and enhance patient and provider experience, Schultz said.
Founding members. In Aitkin, Alexandria, Blue Earth, Cloquet, Crookston, Glencoe, Glenwood, Grand Marais, International Falls, Madela, Madison, Mora, Montvideo, Morris, Northfield, Onamia, Rouseau, Wadena, Winona.
Clout in numbers
Network members together have $1.3 billion net revenue, 9,000 employees, 100,00 commercially insured patients, 50,000 Medicare patients. Population served: 750,000.