DuPage Medical Group and Quincy Medical Group Reach Agreement To Expand Delivery of Physician-Directed, Multi-Specialty Care

(DOWN­ERS GROVE, Ill.) – DuPage Med­ical Group and Quin­cy Med­ical Group, Quin­cy, Illi­nois, have signed a let­ter of intent to fur­ther devel­op and expand as a trans­for­ma­tion­al mul­ti-spe­­cial­­ty clin­i­cal care deliv­ery orga­ni­za­tion. As part­ners, the orga­ni­za­tions will inten­tion­al­ly focus on pro­vid­ing an unri­valed patient expe­ri­ence, while work­ing to raise the stan­dard for qual­i­ty and excel­lence for physi­­cian-direc­t­ed care. 

DuPage Med­ical Group is the largest physi­­cian-owned inde­pen­dent med­ical group in Illi­nois. Quin­cy Med­ical Group is a large physi­­cian-direc­t­ed prac­tice encom­pass­ing 155 providers in 35 spe­cial­ties, span­ning 18 loca­tions across com­mu­ni­ties in Illi­nois, Iowa and Missouri.

With Quin­cy Med­ical Group as part­ners, DuPage Med­ical Group will con­tin­ue its pur­suit of increas­ing access to afford­able, patient-cen­tric, physi­­cian-direc­t­ed and coor­di­nat­ed care, while deep­en­ing invest­ment in local ser­vices and pro­grams that meet the health care needs of patients across Illi­nois, Iowa, Mis­souri, and beyond.

“Our part­ner­ship with Quin­cy Med­ical Group builds on our pur­­pose-dri­ven vision to trans­form health­care by cre­at­ing new pipelines for col­lab­o­ra­tion that empow­er our physi­cians and team mem­bers to reimag­ine the deliv­ery of care,” said Steve Nel­son, CEO of DuPage Med­ical Group. Accord­ing to Paul Mer­rick, M.D., Chair­man of the DuPage Med­ical Group Board of Direc­tors,​“Quin­cy Med­ical Group’s out­stand­ing rep­u­ta­tion as a high qual­i­ty provider for gen­er­a­tions of fam­i­lies in West-Cen­­tral Illi­nois fur­ther enhances our shared goal to expand patient access to a lead­ing edge, physi­cian direct­ed deliv­ery model.” 

The agree­ment pro­vides for DuPage Med­ical Group to make strate­gic invest­ments in Quin­cy Med­ical Group’s infra­struc­ture and tech­nol­o­gy, expand in-net­­work capa­bil­i­ties, advance pro­gres­sion to val­ue-based care, and deliv­er on shared efforts to increase care access, edu­ca­tion, ser­vice, and char­i­ta­ble giv­ing to their local communities. 

“This trans­for­ma­tive part­ner­ship with DuPage Med­ical Group sup­ports our evo­lu­tion and expan­sion as an inde­pen­dent physi­cian group and fur­thers our mis­sion to pro­vide high qual­i­ty and afford­able care options across the tri-states and beyond,” said Car­ol Brock­miller, the long-stand­ing CEO of Quin­cy Med­ical Group.​“Togeth­er, we will advance our joint goal of enhanc­ing the patient expe­ri­ence and help­ing ensure con­tin­ued suc­cess and pro­fes­sion­al growth for our physi­cians and team mem­bers,” explained Todd Pet­ty, M.D., Chair­man of Quin­cy Med­ical Group’s Board of Directors. 

DuPage Med­ical Group will con­tin­ue to be led by Steve Nel­son as CEO and Dr. Paul Mer­rick, as Clin­i­cal Board Chair. Brock­miller will remain CEO of Quin­cy Med­ical Group and will join the DuPage Med­ical Group’s Senior Man­age­ment Team as region­al CEO, focus­ing on addi­tion­al growth oppor­tu­ni­ties. Dr. Todd Pet­ty remains Chair­man of Quin­cy Med­ical Group’s Board. DuPage Med­ical Group and Quin­cy Med­ical Group will have local clin­i­cal boards to over­see qual­i­ty of care and clin­i­cal best prac­tices, lever­ag­ing shared capa­bil­i­ties and infra­struc­ture to cre­ate a con­sis­tent and dis­tinc­tive patient expe­ri­ence across both organizations. 

This is DuPage Med­ical Group’s sec­ond large-scale part­ner­ship with­in a three-month peri­od. In June, the group agreed to the cap­i­tal pur­chase of the assets of South Bend Clin­ic, the largest physi­­cian-owned group in Indi­ana. The trans­ac­tion between DuPage Med­ical Group and South Bend Clin­ic, announced in June, was com­plet­ed on Sep­tem­ber 1^st.

About DuPage Med­ical Group

Formed in 1999, DuPage Med­ical Group is the largest inde­pen­dent mul­ti-spe­­cial­­ty physi­cian group in the Mid­west. Its suc­cess is steeped in the informed direc­tion pro­vid­ed through a physi­­cian-gov­­erned clin­i­cal board. DuPage Med­ical Group is led by expe­ri­enced physi­cians and a senior man­age­ment team that has decades of com­bined expe­ri­ence with­in health­care and from diverse orga­ni­za­tions out­side of the indus­try. Through its dis­tinc­tive mod­el, the more than approx­i­mate­ly 900 physi­cians and 5000+ asso­ciates advance coor­di­nat­ed care and bring solu­tions to the health­care eco-sys­tem, dri­ving proac­tive and per­son­al­ized health for patients.

About Quin­cy Med­ical Group

Estab­lished in 1937, Quin­cy Med­ical Group is a large physi­­cian-direc­t­ed mul­ti-spe­­cial­­ty group prac­tice with 18 loca­tions across Illi­nois, Iowa and Mis­souri. The physi­cians at Quin­cy Med­ical Group work in a col­lab­o­ra­tive care envi­ron­ment where pri­ma­ry care physi­cians and spe­cial­ists deliv­er inte­grat­ed and coor­di­nat­ed patient care. With 155 providers across 36 Board cer­ti­fi­ca­tions and 1000 team mem­bers, Quin­cy Med­ical Group is regard­ed for its excep­tion­al care of gen­er­a­tions of fam­i­lies in Adams Coun­ty and beyond.