Twenty-three independent Missouri hospitals have formed the Show-Me High Value Network, a statewide clinically integrated network aimed at improving quality and care coordination while keeping member hospitals independent.
Five things to know, according to a Sept. 9 news release from the Missouri Hospital Association:
1. The network’s participating hospitals serve more than 1.8 million Missourians and all are in the state:
- Bothwell Regional Health Center (Sedalia)
- Carroll County Memorial Hospital (Carrollton)
- Cass Regional Medical Center (Harrisonville)
- Cedar County Memorial Hospital (El Dorado Springs)
- Citizens Memorial Hospital (Bolivar)
- Community Hospital – Fairfax (Fairfax)
- Fitzgibbon Hospital (Marshall)
- Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare (Clinton)
- Hannibal Regional Hospital (Hannibal)
- Harrison County Community Hospital (Bethany)
- Hermann Area District Hospital (Hermann)
- Missouri Delta Medical Center (Sikeston)
- Nevada Regional Medical Center (Nevada)
- Ozarks Healthcare (West Plains)
- Pershing Health System (Brookfield)
- Phelps Health (Rolla)
- Pike County Memorial Hospital (Louisiana)
- Ray County Hospital and Healthcare (Richmond)
- Salem Memorial District Hospital (Salem)
- Samaritan Hospital (Macon)
- Scotland County Hospital (Memphis)
- Washington County Memorial Hospital (Potosi)
- Western Missouri Medical Center (Warrensburg)
2. Craig Thompson, CEO of Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare, chairs the network. “The network will help our hospitals gain scale operationally by growing their engagement with peer hospitals across Missouri, while preserving the quality and local focus that defines our care,” Mr. Thompson said in the release.
3. To carry out its work, the network has created a Clinical Integration Committee and a Care Coordination Committee, each with representatives from every member hospital. The committees will develop a common set of quality measures and lead implementation of a clinical data-sharing platform to support work with insurers on value-based care arrangements. A third committee of operational leaders will focus on efficiency across member organizations.
4. Beyond clinical collaboration, members will work together on lowering the cost of purchasing equipment and services. Those services will be optional for participants, and each hospital remains independent and locally governed, according to Mr. Thompson.
5. Independent hospitals in other states have formed similar clinically integrated networks. Ten rural Wisconsin hospitals formed one in 2025, and seven rural Kansas hospitals did the same this year.
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