Trinity Mother Frances Joins Texas Care Alliance

TYLER — As part of ongoing efforts to offer innovate and patient-focused healthcare solutions to East Texas, Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics has joined the expanded Texas Care Alliance (TCA), according to a Trinity Mother Frances news release. Officials say the TCA is a group of nine hospital systems throughout the state that are collaborating as part of an ongoing effort to assist patients in navigating the changing healthcare landscape in the coming months and years.

In March of 2013, the TCA was created as a “central organization” designed to build expertise in population health management, capitalize on economies of scale, and accelerate the rapid adoption of clinical and operational best practices. In doing so, the members of TCA seek to improve and integrate the key pieces of the healthcare value chain through a shared commitment to adopt common metrics, measure performance, and share clinical and administrative best practices, according to the news release. Officials say the TCA is neither a merger nor an acquisition, but rather a collaboration between a group of healthcare providers that cover 193 Texas counties and 20 percent of the state’s registered hospital beds. The 6,800 employed or affiliated physicians will have access to a database of metrics housed in the platform known as Explorys.

“Healthcare reform is set to fundamentally alter the healthcare delivery and financing landscape over the coming years,” said Lindsey Bradley, President, Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics. “TCA provides an incredible range of opportunity for healthcare systems to share learning and to leverage a common platform, which will get us to a point of health management excellence faster and more completely.”