Washington Hospital Political Action Committee (WHPAC) American Hospital Association Political Action Committee (AHAPAC) 2015 Annual Campaign Unifying Hospitals’ Political Voice

Contribute online: www.wsha.org/whpac.cfm (Password: WHPAC) he Washington Hospital Political Action Committee (WHPAC) and the American Hospital Association Political Action Committee (AHAPAC) are important ways for hospital and health system leaders to elect champions and engage with elected officials. Hospitals and health systems have much at stake in the political process on issues including regulation, patient access to care, reimbursements, health quality reporting, improving patient safety, and more. Your support helps us elect strong lawmakers and build relationships with them. These conversations ensure they understand how their policies affect our ability to provide safe and quality health care.

It’s Up to You! All Washington State residents, including legislators, depend on hospitals for their health care. Hospitals provide essential health services and jobs to the state. But health care policy is complicated, and lawmakers and their staff need to work with hospital leaders to ensure that we can continue to improve the quality of care and maintain the fiscal sustainability of our hospitals. By donating to the PAC, you help ensure that we elect legislators who understand and care about their local hospitals. The PAC also creates opportunities for hospital and health system leaders to build relationships with legislators.

Relationships Health care is always a topic of legislative interest, but an aging population, the broad Matter reforms of the Affordable Care Act, and general economic uncertainty make it even more critical for hospitals and health systems to be engaged. The PAC provides opportunities for hospital leaders to get to know the elected officials who represent their service area before the legislative session, so they can be resources to each other throughout the policy-making process. Health care policy is incredibly complex, and lawmakers can make better decisions when they consult with someone they know and trust. The PAC represents the unified voice of hospitals and health systems, and the collective voice is always a stronger voice. The PAC supports candidates who under- stand our issues and helps them become informed on complex health care policy.

2 A Letter from You’re either at the table, or you’re on the table. Joe Kortum Fortunately, that grim vision of politics isn’t true every day. But governing is a non-stop effort to manage our state’s long- and short-term interests. And if you’re not part of that continuing effort, the interests of hospitals — of your hospital — can get lost. We can’t risk that happening. Hospitals provide essential health care services, emergency prepara- tion and response, good jobs, and regional economic stability. The future of Washington communities depends on the future of our hospitals. A strong PAC ensures that hospitals are at the table. It helps build relationships and enables us to help elect people who are going to be champions of health care and hospitals.

Joe Kortum 2015 was another successful policy and advocacy year for WSHA. WSHA developed its Chair, PAC Advisory most ambitious proactive policy agenda and had great success. We saw: Committee and Former Chair, • Passage of the telemedicine bill, Washington State • Increased mental health funding and forward movement on mental health policy, Hospital Association • Enactment of key bills on pharmacy and care for inmates and suspects, Board of Trustees • Continued Affordable Care Act implementation, • No movement on damaging nurse staffing bills, and • Defeat of cuts to hospital-owned clinics. We will continue to develop proactive policy to pursue, and we will also continue to face issues we want to defeat. The state budget remains a concern with inadequate revenues and demands for funding for education, transportation, and other state services. To better meet the coming challenge, the WSHA Board of Trustees has passed a resolution setting out recommendations for PAC contributions. The recommended contribution levels are: • WSHA Executive Committee Members: $1,500 for members from urban hospitals; $1,000 for members from rural hospitals • WSHA Board of Trustees and CEO-Level WSHA Committee Members: $1,000 for members from urban hospitals; $500 for members from rural hospitals • CEO-Level WSHA Members: $750 for members from urban hospitals; $350 for members from rural hospitals • Hospital Senior Management, Trustees/Commissioners, and Physician Leaders: $500 for urban hospital leaders; $350 for rural hospital leaders • Non-C-Suite Members of WSHA’s Committees, Advisory Groups, and Task Forces: $350 The WSHA Board of Trustees also recommends that each hospital leadership team meet its agreed-upon goal, and recommends broad participation, meaning at least three donors from rural hospitals, five donors from urban hospitals, and seven donors from health system offices. I think that the PAC is so important that I offered to continue as Chair of the PAC Advisory Committee. The PAC is an essential way for WSHA members to have more direct contact with elected officials. Face to face is the best way for us to share our story. Help us preserve Washington State’s access to high quality health care. Contribute today. Sincerely, Joe Kortum

3 Major Contributors In 2014, the PAC raised more than $191,000—the most ever! We would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their 2014 PAC contributions.

Leadership Circle: $1,500+ Robert Caplan, Virginia Mason Medical Center Anthony Armada, Swedish Health Services Cascade Behavioral Health Scott Bond, WSHA Florence Chang, MultiCare Health System Gladys Campbell, NWone Gary Chiodo, PeaceHealth Capital Medical Center/Capella Healthcare Government Mary Kay Clunies-Ross, WSHA Affairs Committee Patricia Cochrell, NWone Elaine Couture, Providence Health Care – Eastern WA Region Fred Coleman, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center Coverys Jeff Collins, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Gregg Davidson, Skagit Regional Health Children’s Hospital Fairfax Hospital Jeff Coopersmith, Coopersmith Health Law Group Gary Kaplan, Virginia Mason Medical Center Sandy Dahl, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Beth O’Brien, PeaceHealth Dan Dixon, Providence Health & Services Sarah Patterson, Virginia Mason Medical Center John Doyle, Confluence Health Julie Petersen, PMH Medical Center Denise Fall, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center and NWone Bill Robertson, MultiCare Health System Dean Field, CHI Franciscan Health Peter Rutherford, Confluence Health Mike Fitzgerald, CHI Franciscan Health Claudia Sanders, WSHA Mark Gary, MultiCare Health System Cassie Sauer, WSHA Mike Glenn, Jefferson Healthcare Barbara Shickich, Riddell Williams P.S. John Hall, MultiCare Health System Nancy Steiger, PeaceHealth Dan Hein, PeaceHealth Sunnyside Medical Center Bryce Helgerson, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center Janet True, Swedish Health Services Stuart Hennessey, PeaceHealth Washington Hospital Services Leslie Hiebert, Klickitat Valley Health Alan Yordy, PeaceHealth Katie Holmes, WSHA Stephen Zieniewicz, UW Medicine/University of Washington Jean Hordyk, Olympic Medical Center Medical Center Barbara Hyland-Hill, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett and NWone Ben Franklin Club: $1,000–$1,499 Alex Jackson, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Scott Armstrong, Group Health Cooperative Children’s Hospital Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, P.S. Eric Jensen, EvergreenHealth Monroe Lisa Brandenburg, Seattle Children’s Renee Jensen, Summit Pacific Medical Center Taya Briley, WSHA Tom Jensen, Grays Harbor Community Hospital Davis Wright Tremaine LLP David Johnson, Navos Tom Evert, WSHA Josiah Johnson, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Joel Gilbertson, Providence Health & Services Marcia Johnson, MultiCare Health System and NWone Dan Harris, Swedish Health Services Glenn Kasman, MultiCare Health System Joseph Kortum, Harrison Medical Center Hugh Kodama, MultiCare Health System Michael Marsh, Overlake Medical Center Eric Lewis, Olympic Medical Center Glen Marshall, Trios Health Michael Liepman, Skagit Regional Health Russ Myers, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Ben Lindekugel, AWPHD Paul Nurick, Kittitas Valley Healthcare Bruce Lisser, Skagit Regional Health Kirk Raboin, PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center Charles Lytle, Swedish Health Services Preston Simmons, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett Dean Martz, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Jon Smiley, Columbia County Health System Children’s Hospital Dale Zender, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Mark McCampbell, PeaceHealth Len McComb, WSHA and AWPHD Chairman’s Circle: $500–$999 Gary McLaughlin, Overlake Medical Center Kimberly McNally, UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center Kristine Aadland, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center and NWone Carol Aaron, PeaceHealth John Meno, Cascade Valley Hospital and Clinics Mark Adams, CHI Franciscan Health Jeff Mero, WSHA Connie Agenbroad, Othello Community Hospital David Michener, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center and June Altaras, Swedish Health Services and NWone UW Medicine/Valley Medical Center Suzanne Anderson, Virginia Mason Medical Center Eric Moll, Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics Catherine Bambrick, Kittitas Valley Healthcare Kimberly Moore, CHI Franciscan Health James Barnhart, PeaceHealth United General Hospital Caitlin Hillary Moulding, Overlake Medical Center John Beitzel, Olympic Medical Center Shelly Mullin, MultiCare Health System and NWone Lois Bernstein, MultiCare Health System Sr. Andrea Nenzel, PeaceHealth Diane Blake, Cascade Medical Center Scott O’Brien, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Richard Boyd, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Children’s Hospital Theresa Boyle, MultiCare Health System Vincent Oliver, Island Hospital Kathy Bressler, CHI Franciscan Health and NWone Diane Patterson, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital George Brown, Legacy Health Kathleen Paul, Virginia Mason Medical Center Laurie Brown, CHI Franciscan Health and NWone Rebecca Pohlad, PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center Richard Bryan, Overlake Medical Center James Polo, MultiCare Health System Steve Burdick, Providence St. Mary Medical Center Rosanne Ponzetti, PeaceHealth Andrew Busz, WSHA Ronald Prill, PeaceHealth James Cammack, Olympic Medical Center

4 Joanne Roberts, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett Jean Jackman, MultiCare Health System Robin Robertson, Washington Hospital Services Robert Justus, Confluence Health Bradley Root, Swedish Health Services Larry Kahl, Grays Harbor Community Hospital Rob Roth, MultiCare Health System Russ Keefer, Trios Health Sharon Royne, CHI Franciscan Health Robert Scott Kennedy, Olympic Medical Center Donna Russell-Cook, CHI Franciscan Health Cindy Klein, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Lane Savitch, Kadlec Regional Medical Center Monty Knittel, Walla Walla General Hospital Lawrence Schecter Karen Koch, MultiCare Health System Kurt Schley, CHI Franciscan Health Matt Kollman, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital David Schultz, Overlake Medical Center Curtis Lancaster, MultiCare Health System Donna Smith, Virginia Mason Medical Center Calvin Lantz, PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center Claire Spain-Remy, MultiCare Health System Lyn Sullivan Lee, Swedish Health Services Richard Spiegel, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Erin Leff, Group Health Cooperative Johnese Spisso, UW Medicine Rayburn Lewis, Swedish Health Services Bill Stauffacher, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center Thomas Litaker, Skagit Regional Health Molly Stearns, Overlake Medical Center Lewis Low, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center Tom Thompson, Samaritan Healthcare David Lundgren, CHI Franciscan Health John Vassall, Swedish Health Services Kelly Lundy, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Robin Virgin, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Deborah Martin, Skagit Regional Health Nancy Vorhees, Inland NW Health Services Tom Martin, Lincoln Hospital Budd Wagner, CHI Franciscan Health Anne McBride, Regional Hospital for Respiratory & Complex Care Kelly Wallace, Seattle Children’s Christi McCarren, MultiCare Health System Kevin Walstrom, PeaceHealth Kirby McDonald, Providence Health & Services Rob Watilo, Providence St. Mary Medical Center Julie Meek, Kadlec Regional Medical Center Gail Weaver, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital John Miles, Olympic Medical Center Tom Wilbur, Newport Hospital & Health Services Laura Mounter, Confluence Health Kim Williams, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett and NWone Ingrid Gourley Mungia, MultiCare Health System Sally Williams, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Joyce Newmyer, Walla Walla General Hospital Rand Wortman, Kadlec Regional Medical Center Greg Orr, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center Robert Padilla, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Capitol Club: $350–$499 Ralph Pascualy, Swedish Health Services Kevin Abel, Lake Chelan Community Hospital Gary Peck, Whitman Hospital and Medical Center Jim Aberle, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Suzanne Petersen, Seattle Children’s Scott Adams, Pullman Regional Hospital Chris Phillips, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Helen Andrus, Providence Health Care – Eastern WA Region Kerry Radcliffe, PeaceHealth Kenneth Bachenberg, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Diana Rakow, Group Health Cooperative Sam Baxter, Overlake Medical Center Anne Rasmussen, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Kimberly Bell, CHI Franciscan Health Susan Reams, PMH Medical Center Syd Bersante, CHI Franciscan Health Ronald Rehn, Providence Mount Carmel Hospital and Providence Teresa Bigelow, Swedish Health Services St. Joseph’s Hospital Scott Bosch, Harrison Medical Center James Rickard, MultiCare Health System Mall Boyd, Cascade Medical Center Ryan Roberts, Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District Anita Braker, Swedish Health Services Kristen Rogers, Providence Health & Services Jennifer Burkhardt, Olympic Medical Center Jane Root, Skagit Regional Health Anne Napier Caffery, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Duane Rossman, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Robert Campbell, Providence Mount Carmel Hospital and Providence Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt PC St. Joseph’s Hospital Jeffrey Sconyers, Seattle Children’s Bob Carlson, Othello Community Hospital Jolene Seda, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Julie Clayton, Overlake Medical Center and NWone Theresa Sullivan, Samaritan Healthcare Gina Cole, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center Deborah Swets, WSHA Jeane Conrad, PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center Mark Szalwinski, Group Health Cooperative Patricia Crome, Rona Consulting and NWone Anne Tarrant, Whidbey General Hospital Kathleen Dean, PeaceHealth Lisa Thatcher, WSHA and AWPHD Mark DelBecarro, Seattle Children’s Nancy Tieman, PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center Philip Dyer, Kibble & Prentice Clark Todd, Skagit Regional Health Sharon Fairchild, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Tom Tomasino, Whidbey General Hospital Children’s Hospital Jacqueline Barton True, WSHA Mark Fischer, Olympic Medical Center Jennifer Ulum, PeaceHealth Toni Foster, MultiCare Health System Sam Volpentest, Kadlec Regional Medical Center Cindy Gazecki, Seattle Children’s George Von Gehr, PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center Scott Graham, Three Rivers Hospital Carol Wagner, WSHA Howard Graman, PeaceHealth Jim Watts, Providence Health Care – Eastern WA Region William Greenheck, MultiCare Health System Don Wee, Tri-State Memorial Hospital Linda Gutmann, MultiCare Health System Alan White, Samaritan Healthcare Shawnie Haas, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Chelene Whiteaker, WSHA Jim Hall, Kadlec Regional Medical Center Seth Whitmer, Morton General Hospital Hank Hanigan, Whitman Hospital and Medical Center Bruce Williams, Cascade Medical Center Thomas Hansen, Seattle Children’s George Williams, MultiCare Health System David Hargreaves, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Jeffrey Yamada, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital Jody Carona Harris, Health Facilities Planning and Development Robert Yost, MultiCare Health System Charles Hoffman, Navos Carl Zapora, Verdant Health Commission Drew Hooper, Summit Pacific Medical Center Beth Zborowski, Washington Hospital Services

5 Help with Meeting your hospital’s goal will likely mean reaching out to board members and Meeting Your executive leadership. Your board members and senior leaders should be encouraged to Goal support the PAC. They will all be acknowledged in WSHA’s PAC materials. Below is a sample letter that you can send to board members and senior leaders. After giving them the letter, a PAC brochure and a return envelope, you should follow up with them and talk about their decision to support the PAC.

Dear: The decisions made by elected officials in Olympia and Washington D.C. have a tremendous impact on our hospital and the communities we serve. During the legislative session, the Washington State Hospital Association is active in providing information to lawmakers and staff, testifying at hearings, and keeping hospital members informed about policies and politics. We have a long history of good relationships with lawmakers, and we work hard to maintain those relationships. During election season, the Washington Hospital PAC is another way for us to get hospitals’ issues in front of lawmakers. The PAC helps us help champions of health care and hospitals to get elected. It also provides opportunities for us to meet with candidates and elected officials and talk about the challenges that our hospitals are facing. But we need your support. This year, our hospital’s leadership team goal is ______. Like any goal, it is attainable, but it will take a little effort. I have enclosed a PAC brochure and contribution card. Please make checks payable to Washington Hospital PAC. Every contribution will make a difference in our efforts to elect supportive state legislators and members of Congress. You may also contribute online at: www.wsha.org/whpac.cfm (password is: WHPAC). If you have any questions about this year’s campaign, please contact me at… Thank you so much for your support! Sincerely, etc.

Here are some additional tips for meeting your goal: • Invite WSHA staff to speak at your board or management team meeting about policy, advocacy and the PAC. • Host a small gathering, especially if you have new executives or board members. An informal group can help bring people together to discuss the benefits of the PAC, the current regulatory and legislative environment, and what the hospital’s political goals are. • Give written materials, but follow up with conversation. Let people know that you think contributing is important. • Show leadership by letting others on your team know what you’ve committed to do (it’s public record anyway). • Share the guidelines endorsed by the WSHA Board of Trustees on recommended contribution levels. • Host a thank-you event for contributors.

6 2015 PAC Your contributions are key to our advocacy success in Olympia and Washington D.C. Campaign PAC contributions help elect champions for hospitals, build relationships with legisla- tors, and provide the opportunity to discuss the impact of legislation on hospitals, staff, and patients. You can show your support by making a We continue to look to you for support of the PACs and encourage your active contribution of $1,500, personal involvement. $1,000, $500, $350, $100, or whatever you Thanks to the broad support we received from hospitals and health systems throughout can afford. Simply fill the state, our 2014 PAC campaign was the most successful ever. There were 483 donors out the enclosed contri- bution card and mail from 107 hospitals, health systems, and other supportive organizations, and they it to WHPAC today or contributed more than $191,000 to the state and federal PAC campaigns. In addition donate online at: to donations from hospital and health system leaders, our PAC was strengthened by wsha.org/whpac.cfm donations from the staff of WSHA and the Association of Washington Public Hospital (password: WHPAC) Districts (AWPHD), and organizations that provide services to hospitals.

How PAC Funds WHPAC contributes campaign contributions to candidates for state elected offices, are Spent while AHAPAC contributes to federal candidates. During the last election cycle (2013– 2014), AHAPAC contributed more than $37,000 to Washington State’s Congressional campaigns and WHPAC contributed more than $330,000 to candidates for state elected office. It is our goal to have most of these donations delivered personally by hospital and health system management staff and board members who contributed to WHPAC and whose hospitals/health system meet their goal. These personal conversations provide an opportunity for hospital/health system leaders to develop relationships with their legislators.

Leaders of Each year, WHPAC and AHAPAC together select two Most Valuable PAC Players the PAC (MVPP) and one Grassroots Champion for Washington State. The 2014 MVPP winners are Bill Robertson, President and Chief Executive Officer of MultiCare Health System and Renee Jensen, Chief Executive Officer of Summit Pacific Medical Center. The management staff and board members of MultiCare Health System contributed $11,735. The management staff and board members of Summit Pacific Medical Center, a rural, critical access hospital, contributed $1,575. Thank you both for being PAC champions! The 2014 Grassroots Champion isDonna Russell-Cook, President of St. Elizabeth Hospital. AHA’s Grassroots Bill Robertson Renee Jensen Donna Russell-Cook Champion Award was created to recognize hospital leaders who most effectively educate elected officials, who have done an exemplary job in broadening the base of community support for the hospital, and who are tireless advocates for their hospital and patients. Thank you, Donna, for being a champion of health care.

7 Julie Petersen, WSHA Chair Scott Bond, WSHA President and CEO, and Joe Kortum, WHPAC Advisory Committee Chair invite you to attend the

13th Annual PAC Appreciation Dinner (Part of WSHA’s Annual Meeting)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015 6:00 beer/wine reception | 7:15 dinner Space Needle | 400 Broad Street | Seattle, WA 98109 Dinner with a View Join us for a fun evening at the iconic Space Needle for dinner with your colleagues. We will be in a private room at the skyline level located at the 100' elevation of the Needle with a spectacular 360-degree panoramic view of Seattle and the surrounding mountains. Prior to dinner, guests will be provided tickets to walk through the Chihuly Garden & Glass Museum. Guests may also ride the elevator to the Space Needle’s observation deck for even better views of the city. PAC donation: $350 per person RSVP by Tuesday, September 22, 2015 to [email protected]

An excellent opportunity to visit and connect with your colleagues from around the state. DINNER SPONSOR:

Before August 10, 2015 After August 10, 2015 Washington Hospital PAC Washington Hospital PAC 300 Elliott Avenue West, Suite 300 999 Third Avenue, Suite 1400 Seattle, WA 98119 Seattle, WA 98104 www.wsha.org/whpac.cfm www.wsha.org/whpac.cfm

For more information about WHPAC or AHAPAC, please contact Lori Martinez, PAC and Legislative Manager at (206) 577-1838 or [email protected].

Legal Disclaimers: Federal campaign law limits the categories of individuals we are able to solicit. For our purposes, the solicitable class is defined as executive and administrative personnel who are (1) individuals who are employed by the corporation or member hospital/health system, (2) are paid on a salary rather than hourly basis, and (3) have policymaking, professional, or supervisory responsibilities. Board members and trustees are also eligible to contribute. Contributions or gifts to WHPAC and AHAPAC are not deductible for federal income tax purposes. Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report the name, address, occupation, and employer of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in a calendar year. Your decision to participate is voluntary and will not affect any element of your employment. Contributions of $350 or more from the management staff and board members of WSHA member hospitals and health systems that have given prior authorization to solicit will be split equally between WHPAC and AHAPAC. Contributions to AHAPAC are used solely to support candidates for federal office.