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VMC, UW Medicine Alliance: Valley Medical Center Board Tackles Second Special Board Meeting in as Many Days

The Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners will continue its review of a draft document of a strategic alliance with the UW Medicine Program tonight at 7 p.m.

The Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners spent the better part of Monday evening reviewing a draft contract for a strategic alliance with the University of Washington Medicine program.

Attorney George Beal of Perkins Coie, a Seattle-based law firm, lead the five-member board through the first eight sections of the draft agreement last night, said Kim Blakeley, a hospital spokesperson.

The document contains 16 sections, and the commissioners expect to finish the review this evening at a second special board meeting, which will take place at 7 p.m. at Valley Medical Center in the Northwest Pavilion Board Room, she said.

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The document is available online.

"Typically these meetings would take place in executive session," she said, adding that several board members wanted to make the process as transparent as possible and requested that the draft be reviewed during two special board meetings instead. No decision will be made at tonights meeting.

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After the Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners reviews the draft agreement, it will go to the UW Medicine Board of Trustees, who will also review the document and vote on whiter or not to accept the terms. This will happen later this month, Blakeley said, although a date has not been set.

After the UW Medicine Board of Trustees votes on the draft, the Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners willΒ then vote on the draft at a meeting that has also yet to be scheduled.

If both boards approve the draft, the document will then go before the UW Board of Regents on June 9. If the agreement is approved, the strategic alliance will go into effect on July 1, the start of the UW's fiscal year.

If the any of the boards do not approve the agreement, it'll either go back to the drawing board, or be dropped altogether, Blakeley said.

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*Editors Note: This article has been updated to include a link to the draft document.


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