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Clerk 01/29/2016
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AN ORDINANCE related to the operation and maintenance of the Harborview Medical Center, authorizing the King County executive and the president of the Harborview Medical Center board of trustees to execute a hospital services agreement with the regents of the University of Washington and adopting the mission statement and admission policy for the Harborview Medical Center.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The Harborview Medical Center was founded in 1877 as a six-bed county hospital in south Seattle.
2. The hospital relocated to its current location in 1931.
3. Currently, the Harborview Medical Center has four hundred thirteen beds, seven primary care clinics and forty-nine other specialty clinics.
4. In 2014 Harborview Medical Center provided 64,500 emergency visits and 247,350 clinic visits.
5. The Harborview Medical Center is maintained as a public hospital to provide health care to those groups of patients and programs which are determined to require priority treatment.
6. In accordance with RCW 36.62.290, the Harborview Medical Center board of trustees and the King County executive, with the approval of the King County council, entered into the Harborview Medical Center Management and Operations Contract with the board of regents of the University of Washington on December 19, 1995. A mission statement, to guide the provision of healthcare services, was made an exhibit to that agreement.
7. The parties have negotiated a new hospital services agreement for the operation and maintenance of the Harborview Medical Center. As part of those negotiations, the parties propose revisions to the mission statement to reflect the changes over the last twenty years in the operation of the Harborview Medical Center, in delivery of hospital services and in the populations of the most vulnerable residents of King County.
8. Under K.C.C. 2.42.050.B., proposed changes to the mission statement must be reviewed and approv...
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