VISION

One of our collective top priorities is our healthcare workforce. We will update labor laws and work-life balance principles for healthcare professionals, leading to high-quality patient care, less turnover, and stable retention. We will also ensure sufficient resources for healthcare preparedness programs. Moreover, we will attract pharmacy investors to offer citizens life-saving and common prescriptions, ensuring they are readily available, accessible, and deliverable.

As a collective, we need to place real-life experiences and people's needs at the core of our approach, not the other way around. In the healthcare sector, for instance, financial analysts are often recognized for the profits generated from healthcare services, which are performed by dedicated healthcare professionals. These same professionals, often understaffed, are expected to carry the workload of two to three healthcare professionals.

Emerging from Frederick Taylor's scientific management theory, which unfortunately has ties to slavery and was later adopted by the automobile industry, the principle of "do more with less" positions supervisors to maximize efficiency to maximize profits. This concept, when viewed through a collective political lens, highlights the systemic challenges we all face in a society that often prioritizes profit over the well-being of people. However, we view this approach as no longer sustainable or ethical in our modern society. Advocating for dismantling Taylorism, we must strive for a wake-up call and support all professionals contributing to our healthcare system, ensuring honorable practices align with our shared societal values.

Let us overcome the inability to foresee burnout, a toxic environment, or supervisor-induced shortages and turnover. Understanding the whole picture, advertising, recruiting, and comprehending that people are human - they have families, could be a spouse of a service member, or have a family member battling illness while advancing their education - which is paramount. We shall integrate these realities into our staffing strategies to retain healthcare professionals and provide excellent patient services.

The issue of job vacancies, whether temporary, permanent, part-time, or full-time, poses a significant challenge to our healthcare system. The time and energy needed to recruit and onboard new healthcare staff subsequently takes advantage and doubles the workload of our already overburdened healthcare professionals. Our healthcare professionals shouldn't arrive at the workplace feeling burned out or departing after their shift, lacking self-respect, or feeling exploited. We must improve our employment laws and current healthcare policies and procedures to make necessary changes and updates to ensure the modernization of our healthcare system places the well-being of our citizens first.

• Advance initiatives that guard against healthcare discrimination.

• Increase public awareness of Taylorism and eliminate its philosophy from our healthcare system.

• Work with the Washington State Health Care Board, healthcare executive managers, union representatives, nurses, patients, and to ensure a people-centric approach to healthcare.

• Expand telemedicine and Telehealth.

• Guarantee work-life balance principles for healthcare professionals, leading to high-quality patient care.

• Ensure qualified people are placed in the right roles to retain the best physicians and nurses.

• Guide healthcare initiatives to combat burnout, toxic environments, and staff turnover.

• Increasing awareness of hiring and training new personnel often doubles the workload of our healthcare professionals. Streamline these processes and reduce hardships.

• Increase public awareness about healthcare by providing a comprehensive picture, including the potential personal and family challenges healthcare professionals face.

• Implement programs and extend coverage that promotes preventive healthcare measures, such as regular check-ups and screenings.

• Lower deductible costs for working families and expand access to affordable, quality healthcare services.

• Make available funding to boost the number of mental health professionals, broaden the accessibility of mental health and addiction treatment services, and decrease wait times.

• Initiatives that address the rising costs of prescription drugs will ensure access to essential, life-saving prescriptions and medications.

• Attract investors and make regular dental check-ups and treatments more accessible to all Washingtonians.

• Increase access to mental health and substance abuse treatment services. Improve mental health services, education, and support across the state and the Armed Forces.

• Pass legislation and bring in retail pharmacy investors. Implement the option for readily available, accessible, and deliverable life-saving and common prescription programs.

• Advance initiatives and agreements for the healthcare field that align with a professional development model centered on retention, professional growth, hospital preparedness, and work-life balance.

• Advance Health Care Preparedness with state and local officials and with the public.

Mental Health: I am dedicated to improving mental health services, education, and support across the state and Armed Forces. It is essential for me as a leader to bridge the information gap and reduce the stigma associated with mental health issues and suicide, as it often discourages individuals from seeking help. In my passionate pursuit of better mental health, we will bolster and diversify the psychiatric workforce, honoring the significant contributions to psychiatric knowledge and practice. Assuredly, we will enhance mental health services and pioneer initiatives that address individual needs. Always at the forefront of my efforts will be my determination to challenge and eradicate assumptions, negative labels, and stereotypes that are associated with mental health for all people in every culture group.

Public Health Preparedness: Given the state's unpredictable vulnerability to public health vulnerability, we shall ensure preparedness across the state. Assessing hazards and mitigating risks involves improving access to life-saving medications and commonly prescribed drugs for effective and efficient responses in the event of an incident.

Common Prescription: Access to essential healthcare, common prescriptions, and life-saving medications should be as simple as purchasing consumer goods in our state. Furthermore, ensuring funding is made available for public health agencies will facilitate programs to help people live meaningful lives by solving issues head-on. I firmly believe in the power of prevention and education in this area.