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Association of Washington Public Hospital Districts:

Member surveyMay 2010

Objectives of the survey Understand what services are most

important to members Gather objective data on what services to

reduce or eliminate Use data to make critical organizational

decisions

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The survey Developed by JayRay and AWPHD Emailed to 56 member hospital CEOs 33 completed

Some questions left unanswered, accounting for numerical differences in data

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how to allocate $85 budget

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Would you pay additional fee?

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Strongly disagree

Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree

Reduce the board-mandated $1 million reserve fund to nine months of operating expense.

Reduce the overall number of services and focus on services most valued by the most members.

Increase dues to maintain current services.

Offer some services traditionally funded through member dues as fee-based add-ons (legal services, web casts.)

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Membership information

Why do you belong to AWPHD

Advocacy (10 mentions) “We belong because of the tremendous job of informing

the state on healthcare issues done by AWPHD …” Legal (3 mentions) Advice/Networking/Information (15 mentions)

“The services provided are helpful; working with our peers is essential.”

“As a hospital district, we operate under peculiar roles. AWPHD keeps us up-to-date.”

Membership information

Most important benefit? Advocacy (10 mentions) Focused on district hospital issues Information/informed (10 mentions) Networking/interaction with colleagues (6

mentions)

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Membership information

Any reason you wouldn’t renew? No! “No reason other than a fiscal crisis.” “No, valued.” “If AWPHD chose only to raise dues and not

take action on what this survey has attempted to extract from the leadership of individual districts.”

“If I had to chose between WSHA and AWPHD, I’d drop WSHA first.”

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Service/benefit you’d eliminate? No: 9 mentions Reduce or eliminate legal: 4 mentions Executive compensation survey: 2 mentions Retreat/make retreat fee for service: 2

mentions Other

“Not sure at this time …” “Would have to review how often each is used before I

could decide.”

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Service/benefit you’d add? No: 7 Education

“… seminars that tell us/show us how to run more efficient, effective districts …”

“… more board member education; open public meetings act, public records act education.”

“Avoid redundancies, overlap of other hospital organizations … keep it member driven.”

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Membership information

Operating expense as measurement for core dues

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Report more than operating expenses to DOH?

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Days cash on hand?

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Other questions/suggestions? “Keep up the good work.” “Association does a

wonderful job with very limited budget.” “I support reducing AWPHD’s reserves.” “Define which operating expenses are used in

the calculation.” “I think using hospital operating expenses for

calculation core dues over charges large hospitals.”

“Ask WSHA to allocate a portion of our WSHA (from AWPHD hospitals) to support AWPHD.”

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Demographics

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25 or fewer beds

26-99 beds More than 100 beds

25 or fewer beds

26-99 beds

More than 100 beds

Insights & recommendations Organization has high membership

satisfaction and loyalty Members value most, if not all, services Support for raising dues split Reducing overall number of services is top

recommendation, followed by reducing $1 million reserve fund Website/listserv, Administrator retreat and executive

compensation survey are most likely targets for reduction

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Other questions?

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Questions & Discussion