PORT TOWNSEND — Port Townsend-based Jefferson Healthcare CEO Mike Glenn has been elected board chair for the Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA).
As chair, Glenn will preside over the board of directors and help lead the hospital association’s work for the coming year. WSHA hospital and health system members elected Glenn during the association’s annual meeting on Oct. 23. He had been serving as chair-elect.
“I am honored to be the chair of the Washington State Hospital Association this year. The year ahead is all about building momentum toward a sustainable health care system,” Glenn said in a press release.
“Hospitals’ missions have never been more critical. We are our communities’ safety net. And we must continue to find ways to maintain access to care.”
Glenn’s term started Oct. 23 and runs until WSHA’s new chair takes over in October 2024.
WSHA is the membership association for all the hospitals and health systems in Washington state. The association takes a major leadership role in issues that impact delivery, quality, accessibility, affordability and continuity of health care in both the policy and clinical arenas. It works to improve the health status of all residents.
Glenn joined Jefferson County Public Hospital District No. 2 as CEO in 2010, having served as CEO of Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles from 1999 to 2006.
In January, the Jefferson Healthcare Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to increase Glenn’s salary to $350,000, an increase of $50,000, making him the highest-paid public official in Jefferson County.
He spent more than two years as senior vice president of business development and product line management at Valley Medical Center, a 303-bed public hospital district in Renton. Prior to his time with Valley Medical Center, Glenn served as the chief operating officer at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.
During Glenn’s tenure, Jefferson Healthcare has expanded dermatology, oncology, orthopedics, emergency, express care, primary care, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery and rehabilitation services.
He guided a campus master plan and major capital improvement campaigns including the Emergency and Specialty Services Building in 2016, a modernized Port Ludlow Clinic, an enhanced Diagnostic Imaging Clinic, a rural health Dental Clinic and a current campus modernization and building replacement project.
Also listed among his accomplishments are his work to provide whole-person care through integrating behavioral health, substance abuse treatment and dental care into the primary care.
His Jefferson Healthcare’s charity care program is one of the most generous in the state, according to the press release from the hospital.
Glenn has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign as a leader in health care equality since 2014 for providing more equitable and inclusive care to East Jefferson County’s LGBTQ community, the release said, adding that he earned a 2022 Performance Leadership Award for excellence in Outcomes and Patient Perspective from The Chartis Center for Rural Health.
