Alliance Blog

This month, we’re excited to welcome Columbia United Providers, Inc. (CUP), Type2Companion.com and Recon Strategy as our newest members. Thanks to the support of our members, the Alliance is able to produce the Community Checkup and move the needle toward a more transparent and high-quality health system. Columbia United Providers, Inc. (CUP) Columbia United Providers, Inc. (CUP) ...

Learn about The Everett Clinic’s precedent-setting decision to begin posting self-pay prices on their website, beginning with six common imaging services. This action was met with positive attention from the media, health care professionals, patients and community members across the state. Download the June 2014 Spotlight on Improvement (775 KB PDF) >>

As part of Journalists on Quality, a series of insightful profiles written by prominent health policy journalists on how Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality initiative has affected health care in local communities, journalist Duncan Moore describes how the Washington Health Alliance has fostered a culture of health focused on wellness and transparency ...

The Alliance’s executive director, Mary McWilliams, has decided to retire from her position later this year. Mary has had a long and distinguished career in health care and decided this is the right time to retire, knowing the Alliance is in a strong position. She believes that the start of new initiatives for statewide expansion ...

The Washington Health Alliance (the Alliance) today unveiled its new name and released its first Community Checkup to include health care quality results for the entire state. To reflect its expansion beyond its original five-county region, the Alliance, formerly known as the Puget Sound Health Alliance, has changed its name and will be reaching out ...

Using the Medicaid data from the 2012 Community Checkup, the Alliance has produced reports for medical groups showing their performance on the Community Checkup by race, ethnicity, and language. The purpose of these reports is to help providers who serve the Medicaid population – and not everyone does – better understand potential disparities within their ...