About Us

Helping Physicians Improve the Health of Our Community, Baycare is an alliance of the medical staff and Baystate Health hospitals to collaborate in improving the quality, safety, efficiency and sustainability of health care in our community. Through combining our resources and centralizing key functions this alliance amplifies our ability to successfully:
  • Work with managed care organizations (MCOs) and governmental payers;
  • Develop and execute medical management programs; and
  • Integrate the providers into a virtual multi-specialty practice, thus allowing Baycare to fullfill its mission.
Practicing medicine has never been more complex and practicing medicine in Massachusetts has never been more challenging. In an environment of managed care and consumer-driven health care, one goal must remain constant: to improve the health of people in our community.
Baycare Health Partners helps physicians do just that. By providing access to a wealth of resources, we partner with physicians and their practices, sharing expertise and offering support that helps lead to better patient care and better outcomes.

Who We Are
Baycare Health Partners is a physician-hospital organization serving four Baystate Health hospitals and over 200 medical practices in the Pioneer Valley. Our staff is pleased to provide quality improvement support and resources and managed care contracting services to our members. We help physicians manage patient populations through centralized functions that no one physician practice could afford on its own.Incorporated in 1994, Baycare Health Partners is jointly owned by the Greater Springfield Independent Practice Association (GSIPA)and Baystate Health, the parent company of Baystate Medical Center, Baystate Franklin Medical Center, Baystate Noble Hospital and Baystate Wing Hospital. Representing a four-hospital health system and approximately 1,300 physicians, Baycare's service area encompasses Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin counties in western Massachusetts.
Baycare is incorporated as a not-for-profit, taxable corporation and is governed by a 23-member board of directors, including 17 directors appointed by the GSIPA and five directors appointed by Baystate Health.

Our Purpose
The primary purpose of Baycare is to foster physician/hospital cooperation in anticipating and responding to the evolving challenges of today's practice environment. Its mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency and sustainability of health care in the community.Some of our major roles include:
  • Contracting with MCOs
  • Providing clinical integration, medical management services and practice information systems/infrastructure support.
  • Serving as a forum for collaboration and education
  • Developing physician leaders in the business of medicine
Baycare strives to be an invaluable tool and "think tank" in an environment where physician practices have ever increasing demands on their time and resources. We are committed to partnering with physicians to make western Massachusetts a gratifying place for physicians to live, work, and provide quality care to patients.