Qliance philosophy: one provider, one patient, one goal
The premise for Qliance primary healthcare is simple: good health for more people, achieved through affordable health care provided directly and paid for directly.
This new approach has grown out of frustration with an unmanageable, expensive insurance system and a desire to put good, affordable, personalized primary healthcare back in the hands of patients and doctors.
Qliance Medical Group''s Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Garrison Bliss has been working with patients in this way for ten years. He co-founded Seattle Medical Associates, a highly respected medical practice that was the second primary care practice in the country to convert to a direct, monthly care fee model.
The core of our practice, the patient services included in the Qliance monthly fee, is the product of Dr. Bliss'' extensive experience and practical understanding of effective healthcare. He has seen the long-term benefits to overall health when a patient and healthcare provider work together directly on primary and preventive care. He is confident that the Qliance model can meet the primary and preventive care needs of the vast majority of Americans, including substantial numbers of those who are uninsured or underinsured.
Management Team
Garrison Bliss, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Qliance Medical Management Inc.
President
Qliance Medical Group of Washington PC
Dr. Garrison Bliss is a board certified Seattle-based physician with 30 years of experience as a primary care doctor. He is widely regarded as a pioneer in changing the way quality health care services are provided and financed. Frustrated with the poor performance and low service inherent in traditional insurance-based medicine, Dr. Bliss helped reinvent Seattle Medical Associates in 1997 to offer high quality, patient centered primary care services for an affordable fixed monthly fee. Dr Bliss has also been active nationally in the Society for Innovative Medical Practice design, serving a tenure as President and most recently Chairman of the Board. His expertise has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Medical Economics and many other news and trade publications. He has been rated by his peers as one top physicians in Washington on numerous occasions. He was named as one of the 25 top entrepreneurs and innovators by the Seattle Business Monthly in 2006. Dr. Bliss received his BA in Biology from Harvard University and his MD from the University of Utah. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington. He has been passionate about medical ethical issues for many years and has served as chairman of the King County Medical Practice and Ethics Committee, King County Grievance Committee and the Judicial Counsel of the Washington State Medical Association.
W. Norman Wu
President & CEO
Qliance Medical Management Inc.
Norm Wu is an entrepreneur, operating executive and business strategist with over 30 years of experience. He has founded or co-founded three start-ups, including Avantos Performance Systems, a venture-backed pioneer in software for management and organizational effectiveness where he was President and CEO for seven years. Prior to Avantos, he spent ten years with the management consulting firm Bain & Company where as Vice President he oversaw a wide variety of high technology and health care client consulting teams, as well as internal West Coast professional development and human resources. Mr. Wu was also corporate Chief Strategy Officer and SVP/General Manager of two divisions of a $250 million semiconductor turnaround and LBO. Mr. Wu is known for his acumen in developing and implementing high growth strategies, and is well-regarded for his management and organizational leadership abilities. He received his MBA from Harvard University and his MS (specializing in medical applications of electronics) and BS in electrical engineering with distinction from Stanford University.
L. Chapin Henry
Director of Marketing
Qliance Medical Management Inc.
Chapin Henry has extensive experience in market research, market analysis, product planning, and sales execution. Mr. Henry helped five start-up companies bring their new products to market. Previously, Mr. Henry served as the Director of Business Development at Arcessa, a large-scale information retrieval solution, and was responsible for developing business partnerships with government agencies and IT contractors in Washington DC. Mr. Henry managed and executed product planning for Blue Scooter, a peer-to-peer file sharing technology company; Cubitz.com, an online commercial real estate website; and Alive.com, a streaming media company. In 1991, Mr. Henry joined PhotoDisc, (now Getty Images) where he helped the company grow from a five employee start-up to a market leading business that generated over $40 million in annual sales within five years of operation. Mr. Henry graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in the history of industry and technology.
Investors
Qliance Medical Management Inc., the management services company associated with Qliance Medical Group of Washington PC, is funded by a group of private investors who are excited about the opportunity to make high quality primary care affordable and broadly accessible in the United States. Our lead investor is Second Avenue Partners of Seattle, WA.
