Skip Rowland led the national anthem quite expressively, accompanied by Freeman Fong on the piano. Laurel James then introduced the two newest: Shanna Lamar and Doug Hanafin. Vice President for Membership Maria Tringali announced that the club has added 24 members since the beginning of the year. This week, the honorees were: Carl Behnke, Jay Bond, Nancy Cahill, Jann Curley, Ralph Davis, Mark Davis, Charley Dickey, Peter Dunbar, Bill Fetterley, David Fontana, Stan Foster, Roberta Greer, Marli Iverson, John Kilpatrick, Steve & Terri Lingenbrink, Lou Lundquist, Art Mazzola, Ted McCaugherty, Roberta Nestaas, John Pohl, Nancy Sclater, Bill Smead, Stephen Sprenger, Todd Summerfelt, Jim Travis, Bruce Walker, Sarah Weaver, Bob Wiley, Kim Anderson, and Laura Rehrmann. Once again Seattle 4 honored Pinkham & Skeel-level donors – those who have given $1,000 or more this year to the Seattle Rotary Service Foundation. Our patients involved with this process are happier with their care, clearer about their role, are more likely to recover faster and better, and this better quality comes with much lower costs.” “We found when our patients really understood the choices, the number choosing to have knee replacement surgery dropped by 38%, and the number who chose to have hip replacement surgery dropped by 26%. This supports a strategy he called “shared decision-making,” that invites the patient to get involved in making the choices about important procedures. (By contrast, the lowest scoring group rated below average on 16 of 21 measures.)Īrmstrong explained that the key is aligning all their systems around the goal of better health for the patient. On a 2013 Washington Health Alliance report, Group Health scored the highest among the six large medical groups that reported on every quality measure, rating above average on 17 of 21 measures, and average on the other four. Not only is its structure and approach well regarded, its quality is excellent.
Group Health Cooperative itself, one of the nation's largest consumer-governed health care systems, is now considered a national model for effective health care delivery. In fact, he said, “within health care today, the quality is all over the map.” So how does a smart consumer assess plans and providers? One valuable source of information on the quality delivered by local health providers is on the Washington Health Alliance website Now with nearly 30 years in health care, Armstrong serves on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, the boards of America's Health Insurance Plans and the Alliance of Community Health Plans.Īrmstrong stressed that not all health care providers, or plans, are created equal. Previously he served Group Health in positions ranging from assistant hospital administrator to chief operating officer. This would shift a “waste” product detrimental to the environment into a safe and productive reuse that helps raise the standard of living for poor farmers.įor the long program, President Laura Rehrmann introduced her boss, Scott Armstrong, the President and CEO of Group Health Cooperative, a position he assumed in 2005. Center said that with the University District Rotary Club also supporting the prize, this year’s award is $2,500, but the goal is to get enough Rotary Clubs to contribute to get the prize to $10,000.Ĭontestant Tran Thi Khanh Trang, a Colorado State University student from Viet Nam described her plan to convert rice straw waste – traditionally burnt, by the millions of tons a year – into a base for growing mushrooms. This year, the GSEC attracted 160 applicants from 37 nations.Īs a part of this competition, Seattle 4 awards a prize to the team that earns the highest “social value” score awarded by the Foster School’s judging panel. College students from around the world compete with business plans for commercially sustainable ways to address problems of poverty in the developing world. Now in its tenth year, the GSEC is an international business plan competition at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Inside for the short program, former club President Bill Center introduced the contestants for the Seattle Rotary Prize in the annual Global Social Entrepreneur Competition. Seattle 4 Rotarians arriving for the February 26 meeting found the foyer of the Seattle Sheraton ballroom filled with eager college students standing by posters describing their ambitious, creative visions for ‘doing well by doing good.’ Rotarians Meet Social Entrepreneurs, Learn about Health Care Quality
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