Pacific Hospital Preservation &
Development Authority
1200 12th Ave. S
Seattle, WA 98144

To champion effective healthcare for the vulnerable and disadvantaged in our community.

Overview

The City of Seattle chartered the Pacific Hospital Preservation & Development Authority (PHPDA) in 1981. Its asset is the Beacon Hill property known previously as the Public Health Service Hospital or Pacific Hospital. The property is comprised of a 14-story historic hospital tower leased to Wright Runstad (currently sub-leased to Amazon.com), a clinic in the ground floor and basement of the tower, six Officer's Quarters buildings, a parking garage leased to Pacific Medical Centers, and the common property.

Our Purpose (per Charter)

The PHPDA was established to support and provide funding for the provision of the best possible healthcare to medically underserved communities in the greater Puget Sound area. These communities include those referred through community clinics, those with limited access to medical care, and all others who are in need of charity health care.

Our Goals

• To assure the PHPDA's Charity Care Commitment is met, by providing funding for healthcare services for indigent, Medicaid, and Medicare patients, with a priority on providing specialty services to patients referred by Community Health Centers and Seattle-King County Department of Public Health clinics.
  
  
• To promote the increased provision of specialty services for the underserved and uninsured.
  
  
• To advance high quality, culturally appropriate healthcare in our community.
  
  
• To encourage improved healthcare for the vulnerable and disadvantaged by "telling their story" (i.e. by putting a face on their healthcare needs and the efforts of those who seek to address those needs).

Charity Healthcare

The PHPDA has a contract with Pacific Medical Centers, wherein the latter serves as the PDA's Contracted Organization to deliver charity healthcare services to indigent patients. Priority is given to providing specialty services, and Pacific Medical Centers accepts patients referred by the community health centers in Seattle and King County and from clinics of the Seattle-King County Health Department.

The Governing Council and key staff

PHPDA council members and officers as of January 2005:

Gary Zimmerman, Ph.D.
   Council Chair
   Executive Committee
   PDA Council appointee
   Ex Officio to Planning & Finance Committees

Steve Brennan
   PDA Vice Chair
   Mayoral appointee

Kerry E. Radcliffe
   Secretary
   Executive Committee
   Finance Committee
   PDA Council appointee

Dr. Tom Wood
   Finance Chair
   Executive Committee
   Mayoral appointee

Tracy E. Garland
   Planning Committee
   Mayoral appointee

Dr. Betsy Plotkin
   Planning Committee
   PDA Council appointee

Linda Ruiz
   Planning Committee Chair
   Executive Committee
   County Executive appointee

Margaret Shepherd
   Planning Committee
   PDA Council appointee

Todd Timberlake
   Finance Committee
   PDA Council appointee

Rosemary Barker Aragon
   Executive Director
   r.aragon@phpda.org

Ellie Mazzarella
   Program Assistant
   e.mazzarella@phpda.org

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