Overlake Medical Center’s annual Active Senior Fair has for 21 years been free and open to all members of the public. It now attracts nearly 2,000 seniors and their loved ones to the one-day event. Interpreters in Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Hindi and Russian help seniors and their families connect to the American health care system.... Read More >>

This year’s Governance Education Day will take place on Friday, October 13, following the WSHA Annual Member Meeting October 12. Trustees and commissioners will spend the morning in interactive discussions to enhance their knowledge and skills as they’re guided through actual case studies by nationally recognized experts in hospital governance: Karma Bass and Erica Osborne from Via Healthcare Consulting.... Read More >>

Join WithinReach and the Immunization Action Coalition of Washington on October 27 at the Westin Seattle for the Washington Vaccine Update.... Read More >>

Camp Trios is a summer day camp program for children ages 6-14 with Type 1 diabetes. The goal of the three-day camp is to teach participants about their diagnoses and provide them with tools for managing it in a way that doesn't limit their daily life.... Read More >>

Harborview Medical Center is working across the continuum to help meet patient needs and protect community safety. The Pain and Addictions Strategic Oversight Committees integrate the work of multiple programs and departments that care for patients with complex pain control challenges and substance use disorders.... Read More >>

Thank you to all the leadership teams and individuals who have supported the Washington Hospital Political Action Committee (WHPAC)! As our way of saying thank you, we would like to invite donors of more than $350 to dinner at the Seattle Aquarium on Wednesday, October 11, the evening before our Annual Member Meeting.... Read More >>

Rebecca Onie is the co-founder and CEO of Health Leads. Health Leads arms health care institutions with the tools, technology, analytics, best practices and peer community necessary to address their own patients’ resource needs. Rebecca will deliver the opening plenary at the WSHA Annual Member Meeting on Thursday, October 12. Her session will focus on how Health Leads has been successful empowering health care providers to address all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care.... Read More >>

This week marks National Youth Suicide Prevention Week — culminating with World Suicide Prevention Day this Sunday, September 10 — and the time to draw attention to this issue, which continues to cut short so many promising young lives. Those who have come to our state’s health care facilities have taken the first step toward getting help, but it still takes a collective effort to properly care for these vulnerable individuals.... Read More >>

Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel is one of the leading practitioners shaping the future of health care, with a long record of experience at the top levels of policy. Dr. Emanuel will deliver the closing plenary at the WSHA Annual Member Meeting on Thursday, October 12. His session will look to the future to describe how the best health care in the U.S. will be achieved in coming years.... Read More >>

Mark your calendar for WSHA’s Annual Member Meeting at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront October 12. The annual Governance Education Day will follow on Friday, October 13. Registration for both events will open September 5. We've gotten a great deal of feedback in the last few years about the many demands on your time and the high value you place on coming together, so this is the first time we are doing the Annual Meeting in one day.... Read More >>