The impactful changes to healthcare coming with the new administration federally is a call for Nursing leadership nationally. Join us in a Trusted Conversation with member Sue Birch for: A Call for Leadership

SPEAKER:
Sue Birch, MBA, BSN, RN




Sue served as director of the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) through January 2025. Nurse by training, Birch is passionate about improving population health and reducing overmedicalization by focusing on the social determinants of health. She has led efforts to combat the opioid public health crisis through increased access to treatment and public education, eliminate hepatitis C through innovative value-based drug purchasing, and implement a Medicaid benefit for supportive housing and supported employment. Birch has completed appointments to the National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services and served as the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Livingston Fellow and the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow.