Organizations that wish to collaborate with Partners to achieve long-term improvement in mission-critical services can become International Associates. These associations are built around one or more of the following types of collaboration:

• Patient Care Collaboration: Associations in which Partners provides high quality diagnostic and treatment services to patients referred by the International Associate.



• Educational Collaboration: Associations in which Partners provides continuing medical education, short-term experiential learning opportunities for physicians, and other clinical staff.



• Consultative Collaboration: Associations in which Partners advises the International Associate on the development and/or upgrading of clinical programs and services offered by the International Associate.



• Health Care Management Collaboration: Associations in which Partners is retained by the International Associate to manage a health care facility or program owned by the International Associate. This may also include opportunities for training of the International Associate's administrative staff.



• Partners Premiere Program Association: A special form of association is through our membership program - Partners Premiere. Program Associations are available to international organizations that wish to incorporate Partners Premiere as part of their own executive health or other membership based patient assistance program.

An Association usually takes the form of a multi-year agreement between the International Associate (or Program Associate) and PIMS. The agreement defines the purposes, objectives, scope of activity and milestones of the Association, as well as the financial and legal terms.