Our 2015 PAC campaign was a terrific success, raising more than $210,000 – surpassing our ambitious goal of $200,000! This was the most our PAC has ever raised in a single year. Thanks to these contributions, we have contributed more than $77,000 to state and local candidates and more than $17,000 to federal candidates thus far in the 2015-2016 cycle. We will be giving the majority of the money raised to candidates during the summer of 2016. In the 2013-2014 cycle we were able to give more than $330,000 to local candidates and more than $37,000 to federal candidates.
With the importance of the elections, your contributions play a critical role in allowing us to support the campaigns for hospital and health care champions. We truly appreciate all the PAC contributions received – large and small.
Additionally, we had 100 percent WSHA Board participation and more than half the hospital leadership teams reach their individual hospital/health system goal. The full list of hospital leadership teams that met this goal is as follows:
- Capital Medical Center
- Cascade Medical Center
- Columbia Basin Hospital
- Columbia County Health System
- EvergreenHealth
- EvergreenHealth Monroe
- Fairfax Behavioral Health
- Ferry County Memorial Hospital
- Garfield County Public Hospital District
- Island Hospital
- Jefferson Healthcare
- Kittitas Valley Healthcare
- Mason General Hospital & Family of Clinics
- Mid-Valley Hospital
- Morton General Hospital
- MultiCare Health System
- Olympic Medical Center
- Othello Community Hospital
- Overlake Medical Center
- PeaceHealth (System Office)
- PeaceHealth Peace Island Medical Center
- PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center
- PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center
- PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center
- PeaceHealth United General Medical Center
- PMH Medical Center
- Providence Health & Services (System Office)
- Providence Mount Carmel Hospital/Providence St. Joseph’s Hospital
- Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
- Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center/Providence Holy Family Hospital
- Seattle Children’s
- Skagit Regional Health
- Skyline Hospital
- Snoqualmie Valley Hospital District
- Summit Pacific Medical Center
- Sunnyside Community Hospital
- Three Rivers Hospital
- Trios Health
- Tri-State Memorial Hospital
- Virginia Mason Medical Center
- Walla Walla General Hospital
- Whidbey General Hospital
- Whitman Hospital and Medical Center
- Willapa Harbor Hospital
- WSHA/WHS/AWPHD Staff
- Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital
Thank you very much to everyone who continues to support the PAC. It is a tremendous part of our advocacy program. It helps us support and elect champions for health care and hospital services in Olympia and Washington D.C., and unifies our political voice. WSHA looks forward to representing you in Olympia. Please continue to let us know how we can serve you. Cassie Sauer (cassies@wsha.org) and Lori Martinez (lorim@wsha.org).