
	Western Washington Area Health Education Center Connecting Students to Careers, Professionals to Communities, and Communities to Better Health
WWAHEC 2033 Sixth Avenue, Ste. 310 Seattle, WA 98121 Ph: 206.441.7137 Fax: 206.441.7158	Agency Description


Home News & Events Health Professionals/ Student Placement Health Career Information Volunteer/Retired Providers Program Continuing Education K-12 Learning Resources Statewide Office of Rural Health Health Workforce Development Community Health Assessment, Planning & Development Primary Care Provider Recruitment Staff Links Site Map	Western Washington Area Health Education Center (WWAHEC) is a non-profit agency governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, and its programs are implemented by a director and full-time staff. The necessary core support for individual programs comes from public and private funding.
	Mission Statement
	The Western Washington Area Health Education Center works to assure equity of and access to health care for underserved^*rural and urban populations in western Washington. This mission is accomplished through the following services:
	●	Planning for tomorrow's providers through recruitment of students into health professions schools and training programs
	●	Providing community-based education and training opportunities for health professions students
	●	Developing healthy community-based service delivery systems through technical assistance programs
	●	Creating learning opportunities for providers in underserved communities
	●	Forming community/academic linkages which respond to community-identified health care needs
	●	Advocating for public policy that addresses the needs of rural and underserved communities
	^* ^{- Underserved populations are those which are Medicare and Medicaid recipients, Medicaid eligible, uninsured, and/or have health disparities.}
	WWAHEC Values
	●	Create a strong health care delivery system. This requires a continuum of activities. The pipeline involves recruiting students into health professions; exposure to practice opportunities through rural and urban clinical rotations and clerkships; developing healthy community health services delivery systems which are able to attract and retain providers; and supporting providers in their delivery settings through continuing education activities, professionals linkages and community-academic linkages.
	●	Develop health care professionals with interdisciplinary and multicultural experiences, and expectations to bridge the gaps in the health care team.
	●	Train providers together to lead to increased understanding, collaborative relationships, better utilization of personnel and ultimately will contain health care costs.
	●	Promote cross-training which maximizes human potential for a health care team and delivers the best service at the best cost.
	●	Achieve equitable health care access for both rural and urban populations.
	WWAHEC Vision
	●	100% Access, Zero Disparities
		Medicaid Points of Service. You will need Adobe Acrobat to download this document. Want to be a Washington State Medicaid Provider? For information and an application, click on This Link.
		WWAHEC 2006 Annual Report available for downloading Western Washington Area Health Education Center recently published its annual report for 2006. An electronic version of the report is available for downloading and a limited number of printed copies are available by request. Please contact us if you are interested in receiving a hard copy of the report.

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