Health Care
The Winners: 2019 Leaders in Health Care Awards
Saluting the administrators, researchers and healers
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Each year, the Leaders in Health Care Awards honor a remarkable assortment of compassionate people doing heroic work in Washington state. Seattle Business magazine offers its heartiest congratulations and heartfelt gratitude to this years honorees. The Honorees Lifetime Achievement…
2019 Leaders in Health Care Lifetime Achievement Award: Gary S. Kaplan, M.D.
The chairman and CEO of Virginia Mason is being honored as a Leader in Healthcare
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Leaders in Healthcare Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Dr. Gary S. Kaplan wanted to be a doctor from an early age. Working in his fathers hardware store in Detroit, he met a general practitioner…
2019 Leaders in Health Care, Outstanding Medical Center Executive, Outside Puget Sound Region: Mark Mantei, Russ Myers
The CEO of Vancouver Clinic and president and CEO of Virginia Mason Memorial are Leaders in Healthcare
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Leaders in Healthcare Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Gold AwardMark ManteiCEO, Vancouver Clinic, Vancouver Mark Mantei nearly steered into the financial world before recalculating. From a Michigan small town, the accounting major reflected on…
2019 Leaders in Health Care, Outstanding Medical Group Executive: Mitchell Garrison, M.D., Jeff Cohen
The chairman of Wenatchee Valley Medical Group and CEO of Kline Galland are being honored as Leaders in Healthcare
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Leaders in Healthcare Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Gold AwardMitchell Garrison, M.D.Chairman, Wenatchee Valley Medical Group, Wenatchee Mitchell Garrison felt drawn to medicine because it helps people in impactful ways. Health care also satisfied…
2019 Leaders in Health Care, Achievement in Medical Research: Veena Shankaran, M.D., Jonathan Himmelfarb, M.D.
The researchers from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Kidney Research Institute are being honored as Leaders in Healthcare.
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Leaders in Healthcare Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. Gold AwardVeena Shankaran, M.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle Gastrointestinal medical oncologist Veena Shankaran researches the impacts and risks when cancer patients face financial strain…
2019 Leaders in Health Care: Washington Health Alliance Community Checkup Award
Washington Permanente Medical Group, Swedish Medical Group, Virginia Mason Medical Group, The Everett Clinic and UW Medicine/Valley Medical Center consistently rank in the top five of the annual Community Checkup Report.
This article appears in print in the March 2019 issue. See more about the winners of the 2019 Leaders in Healthcare Awards here. Click here for a free subscription. In 2007, the Washington Health Alliance began issuing a recurring report on health care performance across the region and the state of Washington. Called the Community…
UW Medicine Patient Data Exposed by Website Vulnerability
Protected internal files for nearly 1 million individuals became searchable via the internet
UW Medicine in Seattle announced today that it became aware in late December that protected internal files containing protected health information became available and visible on the internet because of a vulnerability on a website server. The exposed files included patients names, medical-record numbers and a description and purpose of the information although patient medical…
How Seattle Dealt With the Spanish Flu Outbreak 100 Years Ago
Nearly 5,000 people from Washington died of the Spanish flu in 1918
This story appears in the July 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. About 675,000 Americans died after contracting the Spanish flu a century ago. Nearly 5,000 of them lived in the state of Washington, where strict preventive measures may have helped keep the death toll comparatively low. In Seattle, Mayor Ole Hanson and…
The Winners: 2018 Leaders in Health Care Awards
Heres to the professionals who treat us, comfort us and heal us.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. As is the case every year, the nominees for Seattle Business magazines 2018 Leaders in Health Care Awards constitute a hall of heroes. We honor them for their compassion, their expertise and their sheer genius in recognizing that health…
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Achievement in Community Outreach: North Valley Hospital District, EvergreenHealth
The Tonasket and Kirkland hospitals are being honored as Leaders in Health Care
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. GOLD AWARD North Valley Hospital DistrictTonasket | nvhospital.org North Valley Hospital District operates a critical access hospital and extended care facility serving a population of 11,000 living across 1,200 square miles in rural north-central Washington. To assist with recruiting…
2018 Leaders in Health Care, Patient Experience Award
EvergreenHealth, Astria Health Center, Familycare of Kent and Sequim Medical Associates scored better than average in every category in the Washington Health Alliance survey.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Research indicates that when health care providers do a better job listening to, empathizing with and explaining to patients, the patients are more likely to trust the providers and follow their advice. That trusting relationship leads to better health…