Working together to improve health care quality, outcomes, and
affordability in Washington State.
Learn more about the Bree
Your feedback is requested on our draft Prescribing Opioids for Postoperative Pain Guidelines. Our workgroup will review comments before submitting a final draft for review and adoption by the Bree Collaborative. Take the survey. Feedback must be received by 5pm Friday, June 22nd.
Get InvolvedMeet our Members
Members are appointed by the Governor and include public health care purchasers for Washington State, private health care purchasers (employers and union trusts), health plans, physicians and other health care providers, hospitals, and quality improvement organizations.
MembersAttend a Meeting
Full Bree Collaborative meetings are scheduled every other month. Workgroup meetings are typically scheduled monthly. Members of the public are welcome to attend all meetings.
Our next Bree Collaborative meeting is July 17th, 2018.
Meeting ScheduleReports
We have worked on: Obstetrics – Cardiology – Hospital Readmissions – Total Knee and Total Hip Replacement – Spine Surgery – Low Back Pain Lumbar Fusion – End-of-Life Care – Addiction and Dependence Treatment – Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery – Prostate Cancer Screening – Oncology Care – Opioid Prescribing – Pediatric Psychotropic Use – Bariatric Surgery – Behavioral Health Integration – Opioid Use Disorder – Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias – Hysterectomy – Suicide Care – Collaborative Care for Chronic Pain – LGBTQ Health Care
Foundation for Health Care Quality
The Foundation for Health Care Quality provides project management, administrative support, and healthcare specific expertise to the Bree Collaborative by contract to the Health Care Authority. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing a trusted, independent, third party resource to all participants in the health care community – including patients, providers, payers, employers, government agencies, and public health professionals.
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