WSHA Staff by Department

Alphabetical Staff Listing

WSHA Executive Leadership

Scott Bond

Scott Bond
president & chief executive officer
(206) 216-2501

  • Formulates and advocates association positions on major hospital and related public issues
  • Represents WSHA to businesses, legislative groups, and other associations
  • Leads in health care and association policy making
  • Manages WSHA and its affiliated organizations
Taya Briley

Taya Briley
general legal counsel
(206) 216-2554

  • Oversees all contracting for WSHA
  • Provides general legal council to WSHA on matters internal and external
  • Oversees Washington Health Services
 Katie Holmes
 

Katie Holmes 
senior vice president for operations and membership
(206) 216-2506

  • Oversees member services, member events and retreats
  • Manages shared services and internal operations departments (IS, Human Resources, Finance, and Facilities)
  • Plans for the future of WSHA
  • Leads perfomance improvement and staff development 
Randy Revelle

Randy Revelle
senior vice president, policy & advocacy
(206) 216-2515

  • Organizes and manages the Policy/Advocacy Team
  • Manages WSHA's policy development process and state/federal government affairs
  • Advocates for WSHA members with local governments in Seattle-King County
  • Manages WSHA's participation in the American Hospital Association Political Action Committee (PAC) and Washington Hospital PAC
  • Supervises the Community Benefits Program sponsored by Washington's urban hospitals/systems
Claudia Sanders

Claudia Sanders
senior vice president, policy development
(206) 216-2508

  • Provides overall guidance on WSHA policy issues
  • Works on specific policy issues related to hospital payment and access
  • Staffs the Public Policy Committee and Public Policy Advisory Group
  • Works with WSHA's Health Information Program to provide accurate and timely date/information for policy/advocacy staff
 Carol Wagner

Carol Wagner
senior vice president for patient safety
(206) 577-1831

  • Oversees WSHA's Patient Safety Program
  • Staffs the Patient Safety Committee
  • Manages Decision Support for the association 
  • Develops new patient safety initiatives
  • Creates partnerships with local, state, regional, and national patient safety and quality organizations

Executive Staff Assistants

Lisa Rusk

Lisa Rusk
executive manager
(206) 577-1852

Melissa Waddell

Melissa Waddell
executive assistant, WSHA Board of Trustees
(206) 216-2510

WSHA Departments

Policy/Advocacy

Randy Revelle

Randy Revelle
senior vice president, policy & advocacy
(206) 216-2515

Claudia Sanders

Claudia Sanders
senior vice president, policy development
(206) 216-2508

Andrew Busz

Andrew Busz
director, financial policy
(206) 216-2533

Cassie Sauer

Cassie Sauer
vice president, public affairs
(206) 216-2538

Chelene Whiteaker

Chelene Whiteaker
director, advocacy and policy
(206) 216-2545

Photo Coming Soon! Vergil Cabasco
policy director, clinical issues
(206) 216-2514
Photo Coming Soon! Barbara Gorham
policy director, access
(206) 216-2512
Maria Harwood

Maria Harwood
executive assistant, policy advocacy
(206) 577-1890

Lori Martinez

Lori Martinez
coordinator, policy advocacy
(206) 577-1838

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Yvonne Polk
executive assistant, policy advocacy and operations
(206) 577-1822

Patient Safety

Carol Wagner

Carol Wagner
senior vice president for patient safety
(206) 577-1831

Randy Benson

Randy Benson
executive director, Rural Healthcare Quality Network
(206) 577-1821

Bev McCullough

Bev McCullough
quality improvement manager, Rural Healthcare Quality Network
(206) 216-2862

Liz Evans

Liz Evans
Executive assistant, Rural Healthcare Quality Network
(206) 216-2550

Janet Van Dyke
executive assistant, patient safety
(206) 577-1839

Decision Support Program

Ken Rudberg

Ken Rudberg
director, decision support
(206) 577-1851

Rina LaStella

Rina LaStella
lead data analyst
(206) 216-2863

Suzie Burton

Suzie Burton
data analyst
(206) 216-2895

Dane Karnick

Dane Karnick
executive assistant, decision support
(206) 577-1847

 

Brian Sales
data analyst
(206) 216-2505

Membership

Deborah Swets

Deborah Swets
vice president, membership
(206) 216-2865

Danielle Kean

Danielle Kean
executive assistant, membership
regional council/database management
(206) 577-1826

Public Affairs/Communications

Cassie Sauer

Cassie Sauer
vice president, public affairs
(206) 216-2538

Beth Zborowski

Beth Zborowski
director, communications
(206) 577-1807

Jean Engler

Jean Engler
executive assistant, communications
(206) 216-2539

Operations & Event Management

Katie Holmes Katie Holmes 
senior vice president for operations and membership
(206) 216-2506
Toni Fox-Corwin

Toni Fox-Corwin
director, operations & event management
(206) 216-2518

Darcy Petersen
staff assistant
(206) 216-2503

Cynthia Hay

Cynthia Hay
event manager
(206) 216-2526

Richard Haynal

Richard Haynal
network manager / security officer
(206) 577-1819

Facilities

Wendy Ray

Wendy Ray
facilities & project manager, WSHA
operations manager, NWONE
(206) 216-2516

Accounting

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Alex Desoto
interim director of finance

Nhi Eklund

Nhi Eklund
accountant
(206) 577-1815

Linda Harmatta

Linda Harmatta
accountant
(206) 577-1818

Human Resources

 

 

Special Projects

Gladys Campbell

Gladys Campbell
chief executive officer, NWONE
chief nursing executive & senior leader for clinical strategy, WSHA
(206) 216-2544

Peggi Shapiro

Peggi Shapiro
director, disaster readiness
(206) 216-2864

Erika Wilczek

Erika Wilczek
Manager of Development, Northwest Organization of Nurse Executives
(206) 577-1825

Rural Program

 

Jeff Mero

 

Jeff Mero
rural cluster group leader and executive director, AWPHD
(206) 216-2519

Bonnie Burlingham

Bonnie Burlingham
rural project manager
(206) 216-2557

Affiliate Staff

Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts

Jeff Mero

Jeff Mero
executive director, Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts (206) 216-2519

Ben Lindekugel

Ben Lindekugel
director, member services, Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts
(206) 216-2528

Beionka Moore

Beionka Moore
executive coordinator, Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts
(206) 216-2530