NAME OF NETWORK
Western Washington Rural Health Care Collaborative (WWRHCC)

Name of Grantee
Washington State Department of Health, Office of Community and Rural Health

Principal Investigator/Project Manager
Elizabeth Floersheim

Address PO Box 55451 Seattle, WA
Phone 206-769-5871
Fax 206-881-7730
Organizational Website wwrhcc.org E-mail efloersheim@msn.com

Project Purpose
WWRHCC proposes to develop a network for Health Information Exchange among three CAHs and their community partners. The rural pilot sites, Jefferson Healthcare (Port Townsend), Whidbey General (Coupeville), and Morton General (Morton), serve areas with combined rural populations totaling almost 100,000 people. These CAHs were chosen due to the variety of local clinics/services they operate – i.e., Rural Health Clinics, home health, diabetes education, etc. – and also because each currently operates a different patient information system. WWRHCC has identified Harborview Medical Center as the project’s tertiary referral partner, which as the State’s only Level I trauma referral destination, is important to CAHs statewide.

Outcome Measures/Expectations
This HIT project will develop a universal data exchange/interfacing capability on multiple levels, expressed in the project’s goals:
I. Develop a seamless patient information exchange capability among local rural providers for each CAH participant.
II. Develop a seamless patient information exchange capability between the CAH participants.
III. Develop a seamless information exchange capability to support rural trauma and inpatient consultations and transfers to Harborview Medical Center.
IV. After the grant project period, support the expansion of the project’s HIT system to other WWRHCC members, and to other rural hospitals statewide.

Service Area
Each of the three HIT CAHs serves a rural community/service area that is itself unique within Western Washington. Jefferson Healthcare is located in Port Townsend, at the northwest area of the Olympic Peninsula. Forks Community Hospital is located in Forks and serves western Clallam and southwestern Jefferson counties. Forks Community Hospital is the most far northwestern hospital in the contiguous US. Forks is located the heart of the Olympic Peninsula, between the Olympic Mountains and the Pacific Ocean beaches. Morton General Hospital is located in Morton and serves the rugged, densely forested area between Mt. Rainier and Mt. St. Helens. Harborview Medical Center located in Seattle is the only Level I Trauma Center in the State of Washington.
Counties involved include Jefferson, Clallam, Lewis and King.

Network Members
Note - please identify provider types as Tertiary Care Center, Critical Access Hospital (CAH), Medicare Certified Rural Health Clinic (RHC), Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), Home Health Agency (HHA), Public Health Department, Emergency Medical Service (EMS), Family Practice Group/Practitioner, Private Practice Physicians, Nursing facilities, Pharmacy or other appropriate provider type. If the entity is receiving funds from the CAHHIT grant it is appropriate to list them as a Network

Organization Name /
Provider Type County/
Parish Address City, State Zip Code
Western Washington Rural Health Care Collaborative/
PO Box 55451 Seattle WA 98155-0451
Elizabeth Floersheim 206-769-5871

Organization Name County/
Parish Address City, State Zip Code
Jefferson Healthcare/ Jefferson
834 Sheridan Avenue Port Townsend WA 98368-2443
Contact Phone Email
Roger Harrison 3
60-385-2200 ext 3392

Organization Name County/
Parish Address City, State Zip Code
Forks Community Hospital Clallam
300 Bogachiel Way Forks WA 98331
Andrea Perkins-Pepper
360-374-6271

Organization Name County/
Parish Address City, State Zip Code
Morton General Hospital/ Lewis 521 Adams Street Morton WA 98356
Contact Phone Email
Stephen Morton
360-496-5112

Organization Name County/
Parish Address City, State Zip Code
Harborview Medical Center/ King University of WA
Box 357110 Seattle WA 98195
David Chou

Equipment/Vendors or Collaborative Partners
Operating systems being used at by the CAHs: Meditech (Client Server and Magic) and Healthland (Dairyland).

Health Information Exchange – Orion Health

Equipment-Servers: HP and Dell. We are considering Omnicell Automatic Dispensing Devises.

Clinics: Clallam Bay Medical Clinic. 74 Bogachiel, Clallam Bay, WA 98326 , Fork’s Women’s Clinic, 231 Lupine Way, Forks, WA 98331, 530 Bogachiel Way, Forks, WA 98331 and West End Outreach, 551 Bogachiel Way, Forks 98331 and 601 Bogachiel Way (Adult Day Treatment), Forks, WA 98331 and Oak Street Center (Chemical Dependency) 109 Oak Street, Port Angeles, WA. 98362.
Forks Community Hospital also operates a Long Term Care Facility and an ambulance service.