Cambia Grove is a health care innovation hub focused on bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and the traditional health care sectors.

Goals:

Build Community: Connect, nurture and expand a community of health care changemakers to support development of new health care solutions
Catalyze Solutions: Catalyze solutions to system level challenges in health care
Advance Innovation: Advance innovative efforts to create a more person focused and economically sustainable health care system

Pillars of Success

We are a neutral convening zone
Our motto is to “leave your swords at the door and work together to advance health care transformation.” We do this by creating and protecting a neutral convening zone, one that prohibits selling and encourages dialogues across multiple organizations.

We work across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries
Health does not have city, state, or national boundaries and neither does our work. We partner with organizations working on health care challenges around the world, focusing our efforts on solving our domestic challenges with learnings from the domestic and international communities.

We focus on solving problems rather than advancing problem seeking solutions
Health care innovation has a solutions problem. The solutions being created for tomorrow do not match the problems faced today. Cambia Grove seeks to align solutions with the current problems in the health care system to enable systemwide health care transformation.

We catalyze solutions to system level challenges in health care while advancing innovative efforts to create a more person focused and economically sustainable health care system.

We connect, nurture, and expand communities of health care changemakers to support health care transformation.

Cambia Grove embodies the region’s creative energy and commitment to work together to develop health care solutions of the future—through pilots, workshops, community meetings and networking events.

The Cambia Grove’s approach can be described simply:

Convene, organize and connect communities
Identify problems and find solutions
Catalyze innovation

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Meet the Team

Julie Panek Anderson

Assistant Director of Strategic Initiatives

Hannah Gavin

Programming & Operations Intern

Riley Sorenson

Administrative & Operations Coordinator

Queenie Chong

YSEALI Fellow

Dr. Bob Crittenden

Executive in Residence

Jessica Hauflaire

Manager of Programs & Operations

Nick Jackal

Community Relations Manager

Maura Little

Executive Director

Madelyn Scott

Community Relations Specialist

Advisory Panel

Our advisors bring unique knowledge and insights that bridge the gap between the health care and startup sectors.

Ed Butler

CuraCloud Corp, Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Development

Mary Fliss

Deputy for Clinical Strategy and Operations for the Division of Clinical Quality and Care Transformation, Health Care Authority

Kellee Franklin

Mindful Innovation Labs, Founder and Strategic Innovation Advisor

Nancy Giunto

Washington Health Alliance, Executive Director

Richard D. Rubin

OneHealthPort, CEO

Elizabeth Scallon

Head of WeWorks Labs, Northwest

Karl Stickel

City of Seattle, Business Policy Advisor

Dorothy Teeter

Health Management Associates, Principal

Sounding Board

The Sounding Board is a curated group of experts from across the health care industry. Members of the Sounding Board support health care innovation by offering their experience and expertise to those navigating the system, providing insight on barriers to innovation and opportunities to improve the system.

Value to the Community
Sounding Board Members provide insight and guidance to those navigating the arduous health care system. Through each Member’s deep expertise, the community gains a better understanding of how to overcome barriers when advancing their innovation. The Sounding Board provides the broad knowledge that innovators need to make lasting industry-wide solutions.

Value to Sounding Board Members
Through interactions with the community, Sounding Board Members learn about up-and-coming solutions and stay connected to the future of health care. The community of health care innovators is equally as diverse as our Sounding Board. Innovators have backgrounds in technology, process improvement, science, and have a strong pulse on trends across various industries.

Potential opportunities for Sounding Board Members include:

TRAILS Competition judge
Roundtable featured guest
Various speaking opportunities
5 Points of Health Care™ panelist
Office Hours host
Lunch & Learn presenter

If you are interested in learning more about becoming a Sounding Board Member, please email info@cambiagrove.com.

Visit Us

We invite you to join the health care industry thought leaders and innovators at Cambia Grove. To submit an event rental request, please fill out this form. Visit our FAQs section for more in-depth information about using our space.