Mission & Guiding Principles

Aligning Forces for Quality

Quality Improvement Strategy

Board of Directors

History

Staff

Employment & Volunteer Opportunities

Donations & Collaboration

The regional Alliance was formed at the end of 2004, following recommendations from the King County Health Advisory Task Force convened by King County Executive Ron Sims.

The Health Advisory Task Force members included public and private employers, physicians and other providers, and legal, labor and economic experts. They recommended driving down the rate of health care cost growth by improving the value of care provided in the Puget Sound region. This will by done through measuring, reporting and improving the quality of care, drawing from nationally-recognized, evidence-based standards and measures such as those published by the Institute of Medicine.

In its final report, the Task Force articulated the need for a collectively-established organization to build and implement a system of quality improvement, based on the strong evidence that each step of the system will require coordinated effort. Crucial elements will be collective market power and financial resources, uniformly shared quality guidelines and measures, pooled clinical expertise and collaborative learning. Employers, physicians, hospitals, patients, health plans and others add different yet important value in the process.

Soon after the Task Force finished their work, the Puget Sound Health Alliance was formed as an independent, non-partisan 501(c)3 organization.