PORT TOWNSEND — Mike Glenn, CEO of Port Townsend-based Jefferson Healthcare, has been elected chairman of the Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) board of directors.
As president, Glenn will chair the board of directors and help lead the work of the hospital association for the coming year. WSHA hospital and health system members elected Glenn at the association’s Oct. 23 annual meeting. He was its elected president.
“I am honored to serve as president of the Washington State Hospital Association this year. The coming year will be about building momentum toward a sustainable healthcare system,” Glenn said in a press release.
“Hospital missions have never been more critical. We are the safety net for our communities. And we must continue to find ways to maintain access to care.
Glenn’s term began October 23 and will continue until the new WSHA president takes over in October 2024.
WSHA is the membership association of all hospitals and health systems in Washington State. The association plays a major leadership role in issues that impact the delivery, quality, accessibility, affordability and continuity of health care, both in policy and clinical areas. It works to improve the health of all residents.
Glenn joined Jefferson County Public Hospital District #2 as CEO in 2010, after serving as CEO of Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles from 1999-2006.
In January, the Jefferson Healthcare Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to increase Glenn’s salary to $350,000, a $50,000 increase, 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 in Renton. Prior to working at Valley Medical Center, Glenn served as Director of Operations at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia.
During Glenn’s tenure, Jefferson Healthcare expanded services in dermatology, oncology, orthopedics, emergency, express care, primary care, obstetrics and gynecology, general surgery and rehabilitation.
He led a campus master plan and significant capital improvement campaigns including the Emergency and Specialty Services Building in 2016, a modernized Port Ludlow Clinic, an enhanced Diagnostic Imaging Clinic, a dental clinic rural health and an ongoing campus modernization and building replacement project.
Also among his accomplishments is his work to provide whole person care by integrating behavioral health, substance abuse treatment and dental care into primary care.
Jefferson Healthcare’s charity care program is one of the most generous in the state, according to the hospital’s news release.
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 won a 2022 Performance Leadership Award for Excellence in Outcomes and Patient Perspective from the Chartis Center for Rural Health.
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