File #: 2025-0290    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: To Be Introduced
File created: 10/7/2025 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the management and operation of Harborview Medical Center; authorizing the executive and the president of the Harborview Medical Center board of trustees to execute an amendment to the Hospital Services Agreement with the Regents of the University of Washington.
Sponsors: Claudia Balducci
Indexes: Agreement, Harborview, University of Washington
Attachments: 1. A. Second Amendment to the Hospital Services Agreement, 2. 2025-0290 transmittal letter, 3. 2025-0290 Fiscal Note, 4. Attachment A. Second Amendment to the Hospital Services Agreement, 5. 2025-0290 Legislative Review Form
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the management and operation of Harborview Medical Center; authorizing the executive and the president of the Harborview Medical Center board of trustees to execute an amendment to the Hospital Services Agreement with the Regents of the University of Washington.

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STATEMENT OF FACTS:

1. Harborview Medical Center ("Harborview") is a comprehensive regional health care facility owned by King County, overseen by a thirteen-member board of trustees, and operated by UW Medicine in accordance with the hospital services agreement between King County, by and through its executive and its board of trustees for Harborview, and the Regents of the University of Washington.

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 and was amended in 2023 through Ordinance 19706.

                     BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:

                     SECTION 1.  The executive and the president of the Harborview Medical Center board of trustees are authorized to execute a second amendment to the hospital services agreement substantially in the form of Attachment A to this ordinance.