SALT LAKE CITY and JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Mindshare Institute℠ and the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) are pleased to announce a new collaborative development partnership. With its 135 member hospitals and health systems, MHA’s leadership sees this work as an opportunity to address the market failures that are making healthcare increasingly unstable and unaffordable. Together, the organizations share a commitment to advancing collaborative, market‑based solutions.
Under this partnership, MHA will provide a capital commitment and collaborate with the Mindshare Institute in a structured process to identify priority market failures, build new mission-driven businesses, and establish additional Health Care Utilities. These utilities are nonprofit, nonstock corporations designed to deliver essential products and services at the lowest sustainable cost, advancing innovative solutions to the complex challenges facing healthcare delivery.
MHA is a nonprofit membership organization representing hospitals and health systems across Missouri. Its mission is to help members thrive in a rapidly changing healthcare environment through advocacy, expertise, and collaboration that support sustainability, quality, innovation and community health.
The Mindshare Institute℠ is a collaborative organization focused on Solving Market Failures that are Hurting People℠ by building “winner-benefit-all” businesses through its Health Care Utility℠ model. This approach brings health systems together to pursue shared solutions that reshape industry landscapes and deliver durable, national-scale impact.
“The people of Missouri’s hospitals relentlessly innovate each day to do the sacred work of caring for patients and supporting their communities in an environment that is growing more complex,” said Jon D. Doolittle, president and CEO of the Missouri Hospital Association. “With the Mindshare Institute, MHA can create practical, forward-looking solutions to help our members meet their current and future missions. This partnership enables Missouri hospitals and health systems to help create solutions to improve affordability, strengthen sustainability and support the long-term health of the communities they serve. We’re excited, in partnership with our members, to help shape the outside influences that previously were beyond our control.”
Tomás Valdivia, managing partner and director of the Mindshare Institute℠, said health system partnerships are central to the organization’s work. “The Mindshare Institute℠ was created to bring health systems together as equal partners to solve problems that no single organization can solve alone,” Valdivia said. “The Missouri Hospital Association’s partnership underscores the power of collective leadership and shared investment to build nonprofit businesses with national scope and impact, benefiting people, caregivers, and communities.”
This commitment of capital and active collaboration will support the Mindshare Institute’s emerging Health Care Utilities and reflects the Institute’s focus on transforming ideas into new winner-benefit-all businesses. Together, MHA and the Mindshare Institute℠ share a vision of strengthening collaboration across healthcare, building trust in healthcare institutions, and advancing innovative approaches that improve affordability, access, and long-term system resilience.
The Mindshare Institute℠ brings together leading healthcare organizations and industry thought leaders to solve some of the most complex challenges facing our healthcare system by building national-scale Health Care Utilities—nonprofit businesses that create lasting value and positive change.
The Missouri Hospital Association is a nonprofit association in Jefferson City that represents 135 Missouri hospitals. In addition to representation and advocacy on behalf of its membership, the association offers continuing education programs on current health care topics and seeks to educate the public about health care issues.