Three Independent Health Systems Join TPC as Members

Plano, Texas Oct 15, 2026 (Issuewire.com) - TPC, the performance improvement company built exclusively for independent health systems, welcomes three additional members, extending the group's geographic reach into the Pacific Northwest and the Central Plains areas of the United States. Valley Medical Center & Clinics (Renton, Washington), Salina Regional Health Center (Salina, Kansas) and Nebraska Methodist Health System (Omaha, Nebraska) grow TPC's membership to 10 independent health systems representing $6.7 billion in combined annual net patient revenue.

Over the past decade, TPC members have documented more than $825 million in validated savings and performance improvement. TPC's model combines strategic sourcing, revenue cycle performance improvement and clinical performance improvement with shared analytics, benchmarking and disciplined execution -- value that is documented, realized and retained by each member.

"Independence is a competitive advantage and Valley, Salina and Methodist are exceptionally strong independent organizations with clear strategies and deep community roots," said Geoff Brenner, President and CEO of TPC. "They are joining TPC because they want measurable results such as lower costs, stronger revenue and higher clinical quality, while continuing to retain local control and identity. And at this time when we are deploying innovative frontier AI models across our platform, members will see that impact to their bottom line in a much shorter time."

Methodist and Salina Regional join TPC as the owners of Mid-America Service Solutions (MSS), the Kansas-based supply chain aggregation group founded in 2008 and now combining with TPC. For nearly two decades, MSS has brought independent health systems across the Central Plains and Midwest together to achieve the scale, contract portfolio and shared discipline of a much larger organization. Now, the health systems that have participated in MSS will be welcomed into the TPC platform and governance, strengthening all member organizations.

"Independent health systems should not have to choose between maintaining local control and having access to the scale, expertise and innovation of a much larger organization," said Shane Plymell, Chair of TPC's Board of Managers and President and CEO of Shannon Health. "That conviction is at the heart of TPC. The addition of Valley, Methodist and Salina brings three exceptional health systems into an organization where every member has an equal voice and a shared commitment to measurable results. Together, we are demonstrating that independence and collaboration are not competing priorities, but powerful advantages when combined."

Additionally, TPC, MSS and Valley shared a common strategic sourcing partner, Vizient, enabling the three new health systems to join TPC with continuity across many of their contract portfolios and supplier relationships. They will also benefit from TPC-optimized GPO agreements, sourcing enhancements, revenue cycle, clinical performance and analytics capabilities that carry TPC's value well beyond sourcing alone.

TPC is among the first healthcare performance improvement organizations to successfully deploy advanced AI models, operating within a private, secure environment, to more than 16 years of sourcing, revenue cycle and clinical performance data across its membership. The proprietary AI Innovations Lab at TPC is accelerating identification and implementation, delivering measurable outcomes for all 10 members.

Marking TPC's expansion into the Pacific Northwest, Valley Medical Center & Clinics, Washington state's oldest and largest public hospital district, serves more than 625,000 residents of South King County. "This new partnership with TPC strengthens our independence through greater scale and capabilities, bringing together independent hospitals with a shared commitment to high-quality care, innovation, and broad collaboration. It's a powerful example of how independence can create new opportunities to be stronger together," said Jeannine Erickson Grinnell, CEO of Valley Medical Center & Clinics. "I appreciate that every member has an equal voice, and the value it delivers is documented and validated rather than just promised."

The Omaha-based Nebraska Methodist Health System extends TPC's reach into Nebraska and Iowa, adding an established regional health system with a network of hospitals and clinics and a long record of leadership within MSS. "Methodist has served Omaha, Council Bluffs and Fremont for more than a century as an independent, community-focused health system, and we intend to keep it that way," said Josie Abboud, President and CEO of Nebraska Methodist Health System. "Through MSS we learned what independent systems can accomplish together. Combining MSS with TPC carries that work forward with the scale and sourcing discipline of a larger system, alongside peers who share our values, and it gives our teams a seat at the table in how that platform is governed."

Salina Regional Health Center extends TPC's presence into Kansas, bringing an integrated health system with hospitals, clinics and specialty services for communities throughout North Central Kansas. Salina Regional has also anchored MSS in Salina since its founding. "As a community-owned health system, we need the capabilities and resources of a larger organization while remaining independent - the same principle on which MSS was built," said Joel Phelps, President and CEO of Salina Regional Health Center. "TPC gives us access to those capabilities, including proven performance improvement in revenue cycle and clinical quality as well as greater purchasing power through the ability to leverage the scale and resources of a larger organization. These advantages help us operate more efficiently while continuing to deliver high-quality care to the communities we serve."

Each organization takes part in TPC's member governance and committees, in which every member system has an equal voice regardless of size, collaborating with other health systems on shared initiatives while retaining local control over its operations. "Working together as one, TPC's members bring the system mindset of a large, multi-state, integrated health system to the challenges each faces locally," said Brenner. "TPC is honored to carry forward the legacy of MSS and the community of independent health systems that Salina and Methodist have led with such distinction. We're independent by design and stronger together."

About TPC

TPC is an industry-leading healthcare performance improvement company built to help independent health systems achieve market-differentiating results without surrendering control or identity. Owned and governed by its member health systems, TPC materially improves three enterprise outcomes: lower cost, stronger revenue and higher clinical quality through strategic sourcing, revenue cycle performance improvement and clinical performance improvement, integrated through analytics, benchmarking and disciplined execution. Through its AI Innovations Lab, TPC applies frontier AI models to its members' shared data to accelerate the speed at which validated value is identified, implemented and retained. Over the past decade, TPC members have documented more than $825 million in validated savings and performance improvement. TPC is headquartered in Plano, Texas. For more information, visit www.tpc1.com.

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