Our Story
Guideway partners with health care organizations to deliver on the promise of health equity through its unique combination of highly trained Care Guides and its patient activation platform. The efficient and effective Service as a Solution lowers operational expense and decreases total cost of care in Value-Based Care environments. For over 10 years Guideway has delivered financial results to our partners by focusing on patient activation.
Our story begins in 2012 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System Cancer Community Network, which included 2 academic and 10 community cancer centers across Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Funded by a $15 million grant from CMS, Edward E. Partridge, MD, a founding member of Guideway, and a team of researchers tested the thesis that lay navigators in oncology would be highly effective at addressing patients’ underlying social determinants, which negatively impact their health. The study was conducted for 3 years and navigated more than 6,000 patients.
The resulting publication in JAMA Oncology in 2017 illustrated that the program made a significant impact in cost and quality. Savings generated by the lay navigation program were $19 million per year for a total savings of $57 million. The financial results spoke to the decrease in human suffering though avoidable hospitalizations and ER visits. It also demonstrated that focusing on social determinants of health and health equity was the right thing to do.
Guideway Care was founded in 2017 by UAB, Dr. Partridge, Chief Medical Officer, and Craig Parker, Chief Executive Officer, in order to continue the program in oncology, as well as to expand it to value-based care more broadly. Today, Guideway has grown to serve more than 200 client partners and continues its work in health equity.
$15 million CMS grant to UAB Oncology Care Guidance – Patient Care Connect™ is initiated in 5 states
Patient Care Connect™ completes grant program after guiding more than 6,000 oncology patients.
Published results in JAMA show a 3-year savings of $57 million. Guideway Care is born from the UAB Health System after being a 2017 ACCC innovation award winner.
Guideway acquires Sequence Health to bolster its contact center capabilities and further expand its offerings.
Guideway expands into Medicare Advantage to improve member satisfaction, increase AWV compliance, and decrease total cost of care.
Guideway celebrates its 10 year anniversary, employs more than 200 people, and provides care guidance to thousands of patients / members every day.
Craig Parker has a history of building innovative health care companies with business models that improve care delivery and provide better experiences for all involved. Before taking the helm at Guideway Care, Craig served as a senior leader in health care companies working in the patient experience and provider efficiency spaces. In his role as CEO, Craig serves as the company’s chief evangelist, spreading the message that Guideway Care’s services improve life for patients and providers alike.
An experienced health care executive, Tina Graham is well versed in leading operations teams through the constantly shifting landscape of modern medicine. She most recently served as Senior VP of Revenue Services at Greenway Health and brings her impressive track record for creating and maintaining strong client relationships and building exceptional operational systems to bear in her role as Guideway Care’s COO.
Greer Myers has more than 25 years of healthcare experience in venture capital and private equity backed businesses. His background spans the payer, post-acute, healthcare services and technology segments within the healthcare vertical. Prior to joining the Guideway team, he served as President of Turn-Key Health and EVP, Chief Development Officer of Enclara Healthcare, which were both acquired in 2020. His experience includes various executive leadership positions in healthcare organizations with responsibility for M&A, operations, product development, sales and marketing, strategy and organizational process improvement.