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Welcome to the Group Practice Improvement Network

GPIN is a nonprofit organization created in 1993 by the founders of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement to provide a vehicle through which medical groups achieve and sustain performance excellence by sharing knowledge of best practices.

Our Mission

GPIN serves as a catalyst for large multi-specialty group practices to achieve performance excellence through shared learning.

Our Vision

GPIN member groups will be leaders in quality of care, patient experience and cost effectiveness.

Upcoming Conference Info

What is GPIN Lite? 

"GPIN Lite" is a smaller, shortened, in-person version of our annual conference hosted by our member organization, MultiCare. We designed this conference in response to the requests to get back to our 2x-per-year cadence and the high cost of hosting at a hotel.

How is GPIN Lite Different?

This conference will differ slightly from our annual conference.

  • 1.5 days with an optional Tuesday morning site visit to local member organization(s).
  • Hosted at our member organization, MultiCare – we are extremely grateful to MultiCare for this opportunity!
  • Limited to 100 attendees, which means limited numbers of seats, a potential waitlist, and different cancellation policies (see below) to ensure we fill every seat for meaningful conversation. This is a first-come, first-served process.
  • There will be a maximum of 7 spots per organization to ensure a diversity of responses during the conference. Those who sign up beyond the 7 spots per organization, or 100 total spots, will be added to our waitlist. The waitlist will be opened as soon as any cancellations or spots become available.
  • Includes classic GPIN sessions such as Hot Topics, G-Force and a Plenary Speaker, while also testing out new ideas based on your feedback (e.g. G-Force Q&A, a panel discussion, Hop Topics offered at a different time of the day).

Transportation will not be provided by GPIN for this Lite conference. Please rent a car, carpool with other attendees, or use Lyft/Uber.

Meeting Location
MultiCare University
1317 East Main Ave, Puyallup, WA 98372
(just outside of Tacoma, WA)
 
Hotel Location
Marriott Tacoma Downtown
1538 Commerce St, Tacoma, WA 98402
Please note there are multiple Marriott's in downtown Tacoma.
 
Reception Location
Museum of Glass
Downtown Tacoma - with live glass blowing during reception.
11 minute walk from our hotel.

Process 

  1. Fill out Registration Part I at the "register here" button below.
  2. You will receive an email if you have been accepted or waitlisted for GPIN Lite Tacoma within 48 hours from treasure@gpin.org.
  3. Complete Registration Part II (further registration, badge, and payment details) if your attendance is confirmed. This is also when you will receive the hotel booking link from Treasure with our group rate.
  4. If you have been waitlisted, register when you have been taken off the waitlist.

Pricing

Conference:

  • $625 for Prime Members
  • $975 for Standard Members

Hotel: (group rate link will be shared by Treasure when you are accepted into the conference)

  • $189 per night at the Marriott Downtown Tacoma
  • $16 daily parking


Call for Content

Would you like to present at GPIN in Tacoma or New Orleans? Please submit your application here by Monday, September 8th at 5pm.

We are especially looking for content in the following areas:

  • Specialty care (e.g. access, value based compensation)
  • AI applications and use cases beyond documentation
  • Applications and learnings as an independent medical group
  • Panel discussions - possible topics:
    • Communication with physicians within your group - strategies that have worked and haven't
    • Social media for your medical group
    • Medicaid cuts - how are you responding?
Open to other suggestions. Please let us know if you are interested in participating.

Updated Cancellation Policies

In order to fill every seat of this limited-edition conference, we are implementing new cancellation policies. We have studied the cancellation policies of other healthcare conferences and the dollars GPIN has had to spend to cover last minute registration/hotel cancellations. The Program Planning Committee has decided to revamp our cancellation policies to the following:
 

3 weeks or more prior to conference:

  • Refund of conference registration price minus $100 processing fee
     

2 weeks or less prior to conference:

  • Can send a delegate in your place up until the day prior to the conference (no processing fee charged); no direct refund for conference registration.

 

Hotel cancellations must be made 2 weeks or more in advance, or the hotel fee GPIN covers may be charged back to the individual. In Philadelphia, GPIN had to cover nearly $13,000 in last minute hotel cancellations by GPIN members.

GPIN Membership Information

Interested in an overview of GPIN? Click here to review the slides along with the GPIN orientation slides, Frequently Asked Questions, website orientation video and instructions.


Upcoming Conferences

GPIN Lite

November 3rd and 4th, 2025

Tacoma, Washington

GPIN Annual Conference
NEW Location - New Orleans, Louisiana

May 6-8, 2026

More information coming soon

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GPIN Members in the News

Here are the year’s best hospitals in the country, via US News

Source: Healthcare Brew  

It’s that time of the year.

US News and World Report has released its list of the best hospitals for 2025–2026 in the country, breaking down the top providers in different regions and specialties.

There’s also an honor roll list highlighting the top 20 hospitals in the country out of 4,400+ evaluated facilities, and US News ranked the top hospitals in 15 specialties.

Here’s the breakdown.

Honor roll:

  • AdventHealth Orlando, Florida
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
  • Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
  • Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, New Jersey
  • Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
  • Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas
  • Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
  • Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
  • Mayo Clinic-Arizona, Phoenix
  • Mayo Clinic-Rochester, Minnesota
  • Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell
  • Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
  • NYU Langone Hospitals, New York
  • Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
  • Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto, California
  • UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
  • UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
  • University of Michigan Health, Ann Arbor

Click here to read the full article 


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