🌟 Advancing Care Through Education: KCMS Grant-Funded Initiatives
At KCMS, we’re committed to transforming healthcare through real-world insight, evidence-based tools, and equity-driven education. With generous support from our grant partners, we’ve launched several targeted initiatives addressing some of the most pressing challenges in patient care.
🎗️ Recurrent/Metastatic Cervical Cancer Care
Funded by Pfizer and Genmab, this project addresses the urgent barriers faced by patients and providers navigating recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.
Survey findings revealed critical challenges in treatment access, care delays, and communication gaps across disciplines.
What We’re Doing:
- Short-form educational video series
- Decision-support tools for clinicians
- Equity-focused resources for care teams
- Engagement opportunities for oncology professionals
▶️ Watch the Cervical Cancer Video Series on YouTube
📊 View the Full Survey Results Presentation
🔗 Explore the KCMS Cervical Cancer Grant Section →
🩸 Advancing Hemophilia Care
With support from Pfizer and the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation (NBDF), this initiative empowers healthcare professionals with concise, clinic-ready tools to improve hemophilia care and shared decision-making.
What We’re Delivering:
- Short-form video modules on emerging therapies
- Patient-facing decision aids and visual guides
- Branch-specific resources addressing healthcare professional needs
- Ongoing outreach and education support
🧪 Preventing Lead Poisoning Through Community-Based Screening
This completed project focused on expanding lead testing awareness and education in high-risk communities.
What We Delivered:
- Community-centered outreach tools and screening materials
- Educational resources for clinicians, caregivers, and public health professionals
- CME/CNE opportunities on environmental health and lead exposure prevention
🔗 Explore the Lead Testing Grant Section →
These initiatives reflect KCMS’s ongoing work to support healthcare professionals, inform public health, and close care gaps — one project at a time.
What It Means to Be a Delegate — and What You’ll Help Lead
The KCMS Delegate Council is open to members of the King County Medical Society who want to take an active role in shaping health policy in Washington State. As a delegate, you will:
- Help write and advance resolutions — formal policy proposals that KCMS submits to the Washington State Medical Association (WSMA)
- Collaborate on legislation that is also forwarded directly to our KCMS lobbyist, who advocates for these policies at the state level in Olympia
- Work alongside fellow physicians and healthcare professionals to identify pressing issues and propose real, actionable solutions
- Be part of a respected body of peers guiding local, regional, and statewide healthcare advocacy
What We’ve Accomplished Together
- Written and passed influential resolutions that address care access, administrative barriers, and public health
- Elevated physician voices in WSMA's policymaking processes
- Successfully stopped legislation that would have harmed physicians and disrupted patient care
- Built strong advocacy alliances to protect the physician’s role in leading healthcare delivery
What You’ll Help Do in 2025
- Advocate for legislation that improves access to physician-led care — including Medicaid reform
- Champion administrative simplification, including specialty-informed prior authorization reform
- Support public health initiatives
- Promote climate-related health policy solutions within the healthcare system
- Oppose legislation that lacks evidence or undermines physician leadership and training
EVENTS
Quotes From Doctors & Medical Students
"Covering KCMS memberships for our doctors is a responsibility our hospital takes seriously. Membership ensures their voices are heard and they are supported by us. Why wouldn't every hospital system do the same? It's crucial for delivering the best care to patients and our physicians."
"We are all crazy busy - but KCMS has been essential for my professional growth, offering resources and a strong voice in healthcare."
"Being part of KCMS is like voting – if you don't join, you can't complain. Our collective voice is crucial for making real changes in healthcare."
"THANK YOU to the KCMS for getting community healthcare providers vaccinated. You are the only agency that has made such an organized effort on our behalf. Thanks for your hard work!!"
"Covering KCMS memberships empowers our physicians with crucial resources and advocacy. Any hospital not doing this is failing to fully support their staff. It's our duty to ensure our doctors have the support they need."
"KCMS has excellent leadership, strategic management, & collaborative skills. It's nimble & responsive. To quote Hamilton, "'We get the job done!"
"Doctors cannot be passive observers; we want to set the standards, not have someone else tell us what the standards are."
"I'm a great believer in the physician as an advocate focused on the welfare of patients."
"Using the KeyBank mortgage discount saves me $1,000 per month!"
"We have to send the message to our mentees to get involved with organizations. The organization gains, and you gain. And I think it's critical to advocate for the policies ... and funding that will make a difference ... All of us have to be part of the solution." Dr. Ralph Sacco
🌍 Student Quote: "I realized I was not limited by my birth circumstances but rather by how hard I was willing to work. My journey is about more than becoming a physician; it's about uplifting communities through healthcare education and access."💬
🌿 Student Quote: "I am dedicated to advocating for health equity and providing culturally competent care to Native communities." 💬
💡 Student Quote: "Growing up as the son of two Filipino immigrants, I experienced firsthand the disparities in healthcare access. My dream is to advocate for equitable healthcare policies and provide compassionate care to underserved communities." 💬
🩹 Student Quote: "Witnessing the lack of medical resources in rural communities sparked my interest in osteopathic medicine, focusing on the whole patient, including socioeconomic and cultural aspects." 💬
✨ Student Quote: "Living with low income made it difficult for my patient to access fresh foods and safe areas to exercise, impacting her health. My goal is to empower patients like her to achieve their health goals." 💬
🩺 Student Quote: "As an aspiring physician, I strive to overcome healthcare disparities by adopting a growth mindset and promoting health equity for underserved communities." 💬
📚 Student Quote: "My background as a bilingual speaker and my experience in community health work have shown me the importance of representation in healthcare." 💬
🌟 Student Quote: "Medicine must transcend social, religious, and political differences. I aim to provide equitable surgical care to underserved populations." 💬
💪🏽 Student Quote: "Observing medically underserved communities, I was confronted with the disproportionate disease burden and barriers to care. I strive to use my experiences to better serve marginalized communities." 💬
KCMS News & Updates
Information about the KCMS Community Foundation's
Medical Student Grants
Free KCMS CMEs Available for you!
1) "Preventing Childhood Lead Poisoning" for credit. CLICK HERE.
2) "Racism in Medicine" for credit. CLICK HERE.
Listen to the KCMS Legislative Summit conversations with WA Governor Bob Ferguson, Representative Tina Orwall, and Senator Ann Rivers!
KCMS is a member of the NAM Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector. Learn more HERE.
BI-WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS & INFO BLASTS
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From one of our members to his colleagues,
"Hi, Team. If you’re not a member of the KCMS, I would suggest you're missing out. Their publication (forwarded) is the best of its kind, an example of genuine quality and efficiency in communication. Take that left-over CME money and join this year to support your local medical society."
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
KCMS welcomes all doctors to Join Today. Once a member of KCMS, you can
- Become a KCMS Delegate.
- Be nominated for the KCMS Board of Trustees.
- Serve on a Committee, KCMS has active committees found HERE.
- Take advantage of the member benefits, including reduced mortgage rates at Key Bank for physicians.
KCMS does not review, investigate, or discipline physicians. The WMC is responsible for that process.