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.

The group operates as a nonprofit health care provider, serving 1.8 million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. HealthPartners says that the cost of medical care for its members is 13% lower than the state average and as much as 4.4% lower than the regional costs.

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 90 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.

According to en.wikipedia.org; healthpartners.com. Source of photo: internet