Background
• Executive Sims' charge to the Health Advisory Task Force
Charter
• Word .doc, 49K
• Rich-text file .rtf, 1.9M
Members
• Task Force members and their representative organizations
Reports
• A Collaborative Strategy
for Better Care,
Healthier People
and Affordable Costs, King County
Health Advisory Task Force
Final Report, June 30, 2004 (PDF, 435K )
• Final Report Appendices (444K Acrobat .pdf)
• Final Report Cover (35K Acrobat .pdf)
• King County Health Advisory Initial Findings Report, Feb. 12, 2004 (112K Word .doc)
Meetings
• Oct. 8, 2004 agenda (32K Word .doc)
• Schedule of meetings
Materials from previous meetings
Oct. 8, 2004
• "The Puget Sound Health Partnership: a Discussion with Health Care Leaders," presentation by Dan Lessler, MD, current member of Partnership implementation
team and former member of HATF (68K Powerpoint .ppt)
April l2, 2004
• "Strategies to Achieve Person-Centered Care," presentation by Dr. David Lansky, Foundation for Accountability (2.9M Powerpoint .ppt)
March 8, 2004
• "Prescription Drug Trends, Issues and Possible
Strategies, King County Healthcare Advisory Task Force," presentation by Dr. Andy Stergachis (665K Powerpoint .ppt)
• "Prescription Drug Trends - May 2003," Kaiser Family Foundation (2M Acrobat .pdf)
Feb. 9, 2004
• "Short and Intermediate Term Options to Improve the Affordability of
Health Benefits and Quality of Care in King County," presentation by Dr. Arnie Milstein (1.2M Powerpoint .ppt)
• "Opportunities and Challenges for the
King County Health Advisory Task Force," presentation by Sally Trude (243K Powerpoint .ppt)
Related information
• "Business Models for Quality Health Care," Keynote address by King County Executive Ron Sims
to Seattle's National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans 2003 Seminar on March 11, 2004
• King County employee benefits
• Map: King County Hospitals, Major Primary Care and Speciality Clinics (594K Acrobat .pdf)
• Map: Public Health Safety Network Map (591K Acrobat .pdf)
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News releases
• Visiting Nurse Services of the Northwest, Fisher Communications, American Cancer Society and Free and Clear join Puget Sound Health Alliance, April 28, 2005
• Puget Sound Health Alliance inaugural board of directors convened yesterday, April 26, 2005
•Three new members join - Puget Sound Health AllianceWashington State Hospital Association, Free Standing Ambulatory Surgery Center Association of Washington State and Uniprise join, April 5, 2005
• First Choice Health, Woodinville Pediatrics and Dr. John Verilli are latest
members to join Puget Sound Health Alliance, Feb. 28, 2005
• The Everett Clinic, The City of Everett, and Washington State Pharmacy Association Join Puget Sound Health Alliance, Feb. 16, 2005
• Six new members join Puget Sound Health Alliance, Feb. 11, 2005
• Puget Sound Health Alliance unveiled, Jan. 28, 2005
• Puget Sound Health Alliance created, Jan. 18, 2005
• City of Seattle, REI join Puget Sound Health Partnership, Dec. 13, 2004
• Executive Sims’ communications director to move to Executive-led Health Reform Initiative, Nov. 30, 2004
• Sims proposes health care improvement "next steps", June 30, 2004
• Sims' Health Advisory Task Force issues recommendations: Integrated regional partnership a must for quality, affordable health care, June 14, 2004
• Covering the Uninsured Week: Increase access and quality, decrease costs, May 12, 2004
• Message to Employees: King County Health Survey, April 19, 2004
• Health task force commends county efforts; Outlines next steps for region to address health care, Feb. 19, 2004
• Sims announces Health Care Advisory Task Force, Dec. 18, 2003
Articles about HATF in the media
(external links)
• "King County Task Force calls on scientific expertise to help solve the health cost crisis," A monthly update from the director of the Center for Health Studies, July 1, 2004
• "Sims ready to implement health-care report," King County Journal, June 15, 2004
• "County, employers to tackle rapid rise in health-care costs," Seattle Times, June 15, 2004
• "Others may follow county in cutting health-care costs," King County Journal, June 11, 2004
• "County keeps its health costs in check," Seattle Times, June 10, 2004
• "Their job: Cure the health care crisis," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Feb. 19, 2004
• "Sims names members to health-cost panel," Seattle Times, Dec. 19, 2003
Articles about health care reform in the media (external links)
• "The overtreated American," The Atlantic, Jan./Feb. 2003
Research institutes & other organizations
(external links)
• Alliance of Community Health Plans
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care
• FACCT - Foundation for Accountability
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative
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