Annual Reports

2025 Annual Report: Full Report as Presentation Slides

2024 Annual Report: Full Report as Presentation Slides

2023 Annual Report: Full Report as Presentation Slides

2022 Annual Report: Full Report as Presentation Slides

  • AOM 5-Year HCM Division Review and Strategic Planning: This year, a select committee of Division Leadership completed the review of division performance and charted out a strategic plan for the future. As part of the review and planning process, a web-based survey was conducted of HCM community members. Based on the members' feedback and the committee's assessment new volunteer, and leadership opportunities have been identified as well as launched (reactivated) new (old) committees to meet future strategic goals.
  • Plenary Session at Annual Meeting: On August 08, Dr. Gary S. Kaplan delivered the keynote address during the plenary session titled "Reflections on 22 years at the Helm of Virginia Mason". Dr. Gary S. Kaplan is currently Senior Advisor and Senior Vice President for CommonSpirit Health with a special focus on Quality, Safety, and Patient Experience. Dr. Kaplan served as chairman and CEO of the Virginia Mason Health System from 2000-2020 and Co-CEO of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health in 2021. He has been a practicing internal medicine physician at Virginia Mason Health System since 1978. He is recognized as one of the most influential physician executives in health care and is a frequent national and international speaker on Quality, Safety, Value Creation, Leadership and Governance, and Building Sustainable Cultures. During Dr. Kaplan's tenure, Virginia Mason has received significant national and international recognition for its efforts to transform health care, most notably as the leader in adapting the Toyota Production System for health care. Under his leadership, Virginia Mason has consistently been named a Top Hospital by Leapfrog and was the Top Hospital of the Decade in 2010. Dr. Kaplan received the Leapfrog Emerald Award this year for outstanding achievement by a health care leader. In addition, Virginia Mason is the only Washington state hospital to earn an A patient safety grade every year since the grading system began.

2021 Annual Report: Full Report as Presentation Slides

  • Plenary Session at Annual Meeting: On August 03, Ann Barry Flood, PhD, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, recipent of the 2021 Keith G. Provan Distinguished Scholar Award, delivered the keynote address during the plenary session titled "Does (Organizational) Practice Make Perfect? 45 Years of Perspectives Add Many Nuances". Dr. Flood is a nationally recognized authority on healthcare management with an orientation to the clinical environment, in particular,  the impact of organizational structure on quality of care (e.g., mortality, surgical outcomes). Among the most significant of her contributions is her pioneering role in pushing the boundaries of empirically based, health care organization research. She was a key contributor in the institutional differences study, one of the first large-scale investigations using both clinical and organizational data to examine the relationship of hospital structure and clinical outcomes.

2020 Annual Report: Full Report as Presentation Slides  

2019 Annual Report: Full Report as Presentation Slides  

Older Reports (2015-2018): Will be added at a future date.

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