About the PHO

The Hartford Physician Hospital Organization (HPHO) is a partnership between the Hartford Physicians Association (HPA) and Hartford Hospital. The organization was founded in 1987 as a collaborative vehicle for managed care strategy development, contracting, and medical management. Over the years, the PHO's programs and initiatives in financial and clinical integration have fostered improvements in the quality and efficiency of care, and increased coordination of care across the continuum of health services. The organization brings together Hartford Hospital and over 800 HPA member physicians, in large practices and small practices, who serve patients throughout Hartford County and beyond. More than twenty years after its founding, the organization continues to find its distinctive strength in collaborative partnership, and its purpose in developing a better, higher-performing, differentiated medical delivery product for Connecticut's citizens.