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Impact by the numbers

Your gifts to the WSMA Foundation and the Foundation Scholarship and Diversity Advancement Fund directly support physicians, students, or health equity initiatives in Washington state.

Cultivating physician and practitioner wellness

Your gifts are helping the WSMA and the WSMA Foundation to facilitate systemic change so that physicians and their teams can thrive in practice. With your support, we are:

Disseminating and promoting the “Thriving in Medicine” Wellness Report, encouraging system improvement through organizational level intervention plans that reduce burnout and improve wellness. To date, those efforts have reached:

• More than 100 chief medical officers, chief executive officers, and wellness leadership, in a direct mail.
• More than 50 CEOs, CMOs, and wellness leaders from medical groups, health care organizations, and health systems during the WSMA Foundation CEO-CMO Wellness Summit in October 2024 held in collaboration with the WSMA Medical Officer Collaborative.
• More than 12,000 physicians and physician assistants throughout Washington through regular promotion in WSMA member newsletters and magazine, WSMA Reports.
• Hundreds of health care stakeholders representing tens of thousands of physicians and practitioners via distribution of a health-equity-dedicated social media toolkit.

Providing educational opportunities that support improved physician and physician assistant well-being and reduce burnout to health care organizations, systems, and clinics throughout Washington state. To date, those efforts have reached:

• Hundreds of MDs, DOs, and resident physicians and nearly 50 non-physician practitioners who have participating in the Physician and Practitioner Wellness Webinar Series.
• Nearly 200 MD/DO/resident learners and 35 other learners who have claimed CME credit for downloading and listening to our Physician and Practitioner Wellness Podcasts.

This [Physician and Practitioner Wellness Webinar] is very helpful. As preflight instruction tells passengers to apply oxygen to themselves before helping others, so we need to be healthy ourselves if we expect to help others.” – Wellness Webinar Series attendee

Advancing health equity

Your gifts are helping the WSMA and the WSMA Foundation advance health equity in medicine. With your support, we are:

Promoting and distributing best practice guidelines to the physician community on assuring high-quality and culturally sensitive care for specific conditions that disproportionately affect diverse communities. To date, those efforts have reached:

• More than 12,000 physicians and physician assistants across Washington through regular promotion in WSMA member newsletters and magazine, WSMA Reports.
• Thousands of specialists via dissemination to specialty societies within Washington state.
• Hundreds of health care stakeholders representing tens of thousands of physicians and practitioners via distribution of a health equity-dedicated social media toolkit

Providing educational opportunities for physicians and their teams on health equity, diversity and inclusion, reaching:

• 109 physicians and 13 nonphysician health care professionals who have participated in the Health Equity M&M Webinar Series.
• More than a hundred MD/DO/resident learners who have claimed CME credit for downloading and listening to the Health Equity Podcast with Edwin Lindo, JD.

Supporting students from underrepresented-in-medicine communities to enter the field of medicine, with a goal of awarding first scholarship in 2026 school year. To date, those efforts include:

• Successfully completing a fundraising campaign focused on high-net-worth individual giving. In July 2024, WSMA’s board of trustees voted to contribute $500,000 to the fund. That October, the WSMA Foundation held a fundraising luncheon where WSMA trustees and delegates contributed another $225,000, including $100,000 from the WSMA Foundation board of directors. To date the endowment has $816,000 in paid gifts and $216,000 in pledges.
• Implementing a grassroots fundraising campaign to raise $1.5 million by year-end 2025 (ongoing).

WSMA member physicians, resident physicians, medical students, and physician assistants in their own words on how Foundation initiatives are making a difference in their lives and their practice.

On the Foundation's health equity webinars

David Cundiff, MD

Sonja Maddox, MD

On the Foundation Scholarship and Diversity Advancement Fund

Jennifer Maxwell, MD

Jose C. Flores-Rodarte, MD

Alex Hamling, MD