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Strategic Plan
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An outline of key priorities, areas of focus, strategic goals, and benchmarks.

Strategic Plan

The WSMA is guided by a strategic plan, which outlines key priorities for the association, areas of focus for its work, strategic goals, and associated benchmarks. The WSMA’s strategic plan reflects the association’s commitment to its members, which is to make a difference, whether that’s by improving the practice environment, their professional status, or the care they provide to patients and communities.

2022 Strategic Plan

At the start of 2020, our strategic plan focused on advocacy through strong, thoughtful policy, physician-directed quality improvement, physician education and development, and organizational stewardship. Then our community faced a COVID-19 pandemic that rocked our state and our members' ability to practice. As Albert Einstein wrote, "You can't use an old map to explore a new world." COVID-19 and other recent events highlighting structural racism and health inequities necessitated that we change our priorities and focus. Our four strategic pillars remain; however, activities and KPIs were adjusted, as reflected in the 2022 strategic plan.

WSMA 2022-2023 Strategic Plan (final update December 2022)

2023-2025 Strategic Plan

On behalf of our members and patients, the WSMA is committed to several key initiatives for the coming years:

  • First, we must recover from the challenges and remember the lessons of the COVID era so that our practice environment ensures physician wellness – an environment that not only helps Washington physicians to be their healthiest, but also to be the most inclusive, diverse, and equitable that we can be. High-quality care - and dedication to that care - can't exist without it.
  • Second, we must focus on the biggest funding challenge we all face: Medicaid payment rates that do not come close to covering the cost of care and do not support access to care for the most vulnerable.
  • Third, we must tackle the crushing administrative burden of prior authorization. Considering that the vast majority of request are eventually authorized, delays create serious harm to patients.
  • Finally, we must rebuild our community and our physician social network that was fractured amidst pandemic restrictions. We, the members of the WSMA are the strongest voice for physicians in Washington state. We need to create communities and tools to foster a robust healing conversation internally and take that voice externally in support of our teams, practices, patients, and communities.

WSMA 2023-2025 Strategic Plan (update December 2022)

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