Paul Kaye, MD

Medical Director

Paul Kaye, MD, has been a pediatrician for 30 years and medical director of Hudson River
HealthCare (HRHCare) since 1991. HRHCare is a JCAHO-accredited community health center
network that serves over 45,000 patients at 14 sites in New York state. Since 1998, HRHCare
has been working with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the Bureau of Primary
Health Care to implement new models of primary care delivery, using health information
technology to guide improvements in health outcomes. In 2000, HRHCare became one of the
first community health centers in the nation to move to an electronic medical record. In 2007, it
received recognition from the National Center on Quality Assurance's Physician Practice
Connections program. Dr. Kaye is co-chair of the Pay for Performance and Medical Homes
Workgroup of the National Association of Community Health Centers, and a two-time past chair
of its Clinical Practice Committee. He is chair of the Clinical Committee of CHCANYS (the
Community Health Care Association of New York State). He has served on numerous quality
and health information technology advisory groups for both state and federal governments, and
was a national faculty member of the Bureau of Primary Health Care’s Health Disparities
Collaboratives. He currently serves on the Technical Advisory Panel for the Commonwealth
Fund's Transforming Safety Net Clinics into Medical Homes project. He is treasurer of THINC
RHIO, Inc, a nationally recognized community health information network in the Hudson
Valley. Dr. Kaye is a graduate of the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center and
did his pediatric residency at University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison.