WAHA is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to connect community members to health care services, promote system improvements and foster public engagement to develop sound health care policies.
Purpose
WAHA is committed to collaborating with others in our community to develop solutions, both legislative and programmatic, to problems that exist in our health care system, so that all residents of Whatcom County have access to health care services. Health care access is not just a local problem. It is a symptom of a larger state and national crisis — a health care system that is broken. WAHA is committed to facing this problem and working together as a community to build legislative and programmatic solutions that ensure that all Whatcom County residents have access to health care services.
History
Whatcom Alliance for Healthcare Access was created in 2002, after St. Luke’s Foundation, a local nonprofit foundation, convened more than 200 Whatcom County residents at a Community Healthcare Access Summit in an effort to increase awareness about eroding health care access and to identify potential strategies for developing a community-based response. Our alliance of providers, consumers, and community leaders is the outcome of that summit.