Health Care
Health Care: The Washington Medical School Flap
Washington needs doctors. Actually, the whole country does. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates the country may be short between 46,000 and 90,000 medical doctors by 2025. In Washington, and indeed most states, the need is even more acute in rural areas. Everyone involved in medical education seems to agree that we need more…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Delivery of Digital Health Care
WINNER Carena Inc. Seattle Carenas technology-enabled virtual care delivery system allows people to receive medical care 24 hours a day, 365 days a year via telephone, online video or the traditional house call. Carena describes itself as a strategic operating partner, not a software vendor. Carenas Virtual Clinic employs virtualists and an operations management team….
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Innovation in Health Care Delivery
WINNER Bartell Drugs/Group Health CareClinic Seattle & Bellevue Bartell Drugs and Group Health Cooperative joined together in early 2014 to create an innovative, affordable, walk-in, get-well health service. Launched as a joint venture, pilot CareClinics operate inside Bartell Drugs stores at U Village and Ballard in Seattle and Crossroads in Bellevue. Their mission is to…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Achievement in Community Outreach
WINNER Washington Health Benefit Exchange Olympia The Washington Health Benefit Exchange was created in 2011 as a public-private partnership to facilitate expanded statewide health care insurance coverage as part of the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA). Washington was among the first states to move ahead with a state-run health insurance marketplace plan as outlined by…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Medical Director/Officer, Outside Puget Sound Region
WINNER Stuart Freed, M.D. Chief Medical Officer, Confluence Health, Wenatchee Collaboration has been a key provision of Dr. Stuart Freeds leadership as he has helped merge two eastern Washington health care organizations now known as Confluence Health. Headquartered in Wenatchee, Confluence is an affiliation of Central Washington Hospital and Wenatchee Valley Medical Center; it was…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Medical Director/Officer, Puget Sound Region
WINNER J. Richard Goss, M.D. Medical Director, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle As medical director at harborview medical center for the past six and a half years, Dr. Rick Goss leads one of the core teaching hospitals in the University of Washington School of Medicine. We are all better at what we do because of our…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Achievement in Medical Technology
WINNER NanoString Technologies Seattle Since its founding in 2003, Seattle-based NanoString Technologies has been rolling out innovative products used in gene expression analysis and diagnosis. The resulting life science tools show promise in the health care marketplace. The companys personalized genomic medicine is accelerating innovation in patient care by identifying hallmark genetic changes that drive…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Achievement in Health Care Research
WINNER Mary-Claire King Professor of Medicine and Genome Sciences, University of Washington Geneticist Mary-Claire King is a distinguished researcher and professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. A pioneer and world leader in cancer genetics and the application of genetics to human rights abuses, King received the 2014 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award for…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Health Care Executive, Outside Puget Sound Region
WINNER Elaine Couture Regional Chief Executive, Providence Health Care, Spokane A key piece of elaine coutures career in health care has been her persistent focus on change. As regional CEO of Providence Health Care in Spokane, Couture is leading her organizations four hospitals and 6,800 employees through big transitions. Chief executive since 2012, Couture sees…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Health Care Executive, Puget Sound Region
WINNER Gary S. Kaplan, M.D. Chairman and CEO, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle Dr. Gary Kaplan and his team at Virginia Mason Medical Center have won national and international recognition for their work in bringing continuous improvement and innovative thinking to the health care industry. Kaplans leadership style is all about empowering frontline people to…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Outstanding Medical Group Executive
WINNER Ralph Pascualy, M.D. CEO, Swedish Medical Group, Seattle In the three years that Dr. Ralph Pascualy has led Swedish Medical Center as CEO, the organization has gone through the type of innovative change thats considered a successful blueprint for the future of health care. My interest in taking the job was to help Swedish…
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Lifetime Achievement
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT Sister Karin Dufault General Superior, Sisters of Providence International, Montreal Sister Karin Dufault began her nearly 50-year career in the health field as a nurse at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. Even though I have moved into leadership positions, I continue to this day to be a nurse, Dufault says….
2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards
While change in the health care business is not new, the pace of it is accelerating. Honorees in the 2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards program are at the forefront of unprecedented industry change as innovative problem solvers and inspirational leaders. Among this years 19 honorees are people who lead some of the largest and…