100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2019

Under Kaplan, Virginia Mason has been a standard-bearer for reducing waste and creating a value-based healthcare experience no matter the payment model. Kaplan has also imposed health and well-being efforts for Virginia Mason’s employees like partnering with Vera Whole Health, who has a clinic in the premises focused on wellness and behavioral change. He also said that the art and medicine program with the Seattle Art Museum connects “the humanistic side of what it means to take care of patients.”