<p> Babette Apland, MS, MBA Senior Vice President Health and Care Management HealthPartners</p><p>Babette Apland is Senior Vice President of Health and Care Management for HealthPartners. In this role, she provides leadership for health improvement, disease and case management, quality improvement and medical policy. In addition, her responsibilities include oversight of HealthPartners provider network, which involves managing contracted relationships with more than 4,276 primary care physicians in over 700 clinics, 9,792 specialty physicians and 164 hospitals. </p><p>Prior to coming to HealthPartners, Ms. Apland was a health care consultant focusing on strategic planning for hospital and clinic care systems. Before that, she served as vice president of Mount Sinai Hospital in Minneapolis, where she was responsible for ancillary and support services, and was executive director of Phillips Eye Institute in south Minneapolis. Ms. Apland holds an M.B.A. degree in finance and a master's degree in speech pathology.</p><p>HealthPartners is a family of nonprofit Minnesota health care organizations focused on improving the health of its members, its patients and the community. HealthPartners is consumer-governed. HealthPartners and its related organizations provide health care services, insurance and HMO coverage to more than 670,000 members. Nearly 9,800 employees staff the various HealthPartners organizations. The HealthPartners (www.healthpartners.com) family includes the HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics, RiverWay Clinics and North Suburban clinics, HealthPartners Central Minnesota Clinics, HealthPartners Dental Group and Clinics, Regions Hospital, Regions Hospital Foundation, HealthPartners Research Foundation, HealthPartners Institute for Medical Education, and Group Health, Inc.</p><p>4/04</p>