Healthcare Innovation April 1, 2025
Washington Health Alliance’s Community Checkup report says the state falls well below national benchmarks in several key areas of preventive screening
The 19th edition of the Washington Health Alliance’s Community Checkup report finds that progress on healthcare quality in the Evergreen State has stagnated as organizations face tremendous market pressures, financial shortfalls, consolidations and reorganization and shifts in the fundamental ways people interact with healthcare.
“Despite the historically low rate of uninsured people, access to timely, coordinated, comprehensive and continuous care remains elusive,” wrote Drew Oliveira, M.D., M.H.A. the WHA’s executive director, in a letter introducing the report.
The Washington Health Alliance is a nonprofit that works with its more than 185 member organizations to improve the quality of...