File #: 2023-0370    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/17/2023 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: Final action: 11/28/2023
Enactment date: 12/6/2023 Enactment #: 19706
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the management and operation of Harborview Medical Center; authorizing the executive to execute an amendment to the Hospital Services Agreement with the University of Washington; amending Ordinance 6818, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.42.010, Ordinance 6818, Section 6, and K.C.C. 2.42.050, and Ordinance 6818, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.42.090 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 2.42.
Sponsors: Joe McDermott
Indexes: Agreement, Harborview
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 19706, 2. A. First Amendment to the Hospital Services Agreement, 3. 2023-0370_SR_HMC-HSAAmend
Staff: Porter, Samantha
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to the management and operation of Harborview Medical Center; authorizing the executive to execute an amendment to the Hospital Services Agreement with the University of Washington; amending Ordinance 6818, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.42.010, Ordinance 6818, Section 6, and K.C.C. 2.42.050, and Ordinance 6818, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.42.090 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 2.42.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Harborview Medical Center ("Harborview") is a comprehensive regional health care facility owned by King County and, in accordance with the hospital services agreement between the Harborview Medical Center, the University of Washington and King County, is operated by UW Medicine and is overseen by a thirteen-member board of trustees.
2. Harborview is the only Level 1 Trauma Center for adults and children serving a four-state region that includes Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and Washington, and provides specialized care for a broad spectrum of patients. Harborview is maintained as a public hospital by King County to improve the health and well-being of the entire community and to provide quality healthcare to the most vulnerable.
3. The current hospital services agreement for the operation and maintenance of Harborview was authorized in 2016 through Ordinance 18232.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 6818, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.42.010 are each hereby amended as follows:
((For the purposes of)) The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter((:)) unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
A. "Administrator" means the chief administrative officer of the medical center, appointed under the terms of an approved management contract, who shall be responsible for supervising the daily management of the medical center in accordance with approved plans and policies and, for the purposes of the hospital services agreement, means the Executive Dire...

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