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Thirty years ago, Rich Roodman set foot in Valley General Hospital. He was 34 years old and even then his pay was controversial.

Today, Valley General is Valley Medical Center, an expansive center of healing that intends to take medical care for the people of South King County to the next level with its affiliation with UW Medicine.

Roodman is 64 and the hospital once known as “Death Valley” is an award-winner with its staff and patients. When he was hired, Roodman was charged with four things: Innovate, evolve, implement and be successful.

“Sure, I can do that,” he told Morton Hardwick, then the chair of the hospital commission, during a job interview in fall 1982. Hardwick told Roodman about Valley’s “image problem.”

Roodman has kept his promise, although it wasn’t done without controversy, political fallout or trips to the woodshed.

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Renton Mayor Denis Law has been elected to a second term as president of the Sound Cities Association (SCA), which represents 35 cities in King County.

“SCA creates opportunities for me to better serve the needs of Renton residents and to create results that improve our entire region,” said Law. “It gives our cities a pow-erful regional voice, provides members an opportunity to connect and network, and

offers tremendous tools to learn what other cities are doing.”

The SCA represents King County cities with less than 150,000 in population – a total of about 1 million people.

The association provides leadership in such areas as economic and community de-velopment, transportation, land use, health, government operations, the environment, education, public safety, social welfare

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SCA, formerly the Suburban Cities Asso-ciation, was established more than 40 years ago to help county cities act locally and partner regionally to create vital and thriving communi-

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“Our county is no longer dozens of bed-room communities surrounding a single city, but a network of bustling urban cen-ters that together define a larger metro area and regional economy, and this new name

reflects that evolution,” said King County Executive Dow Constantine. “The new name also reflects a new spirit of partner-ship between the cities and the county. We are united in advocating as one region for our economy and quality of life.”

SCA also announced it has launched a new website, www.SoundCities.org. “The new website provides a level of function-ality that directly benefits our members and allows the public to learn more about our issues and organization,” said Deanna Dawson, SCA executive director. “For the public, SCA’s website provides the latest news on member cities, the opportunity to review current issues or policy positions and a resource library.”

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Renton Civic Theatre’s 25th An-niversary rolls on this week with the opening of “The Foreigner,” part of a season’s worth of shows selected by season-ticket holders.

“This year is all shows we’ve done before,” said Managing Artistic Di-rector Bill Huls, adding that the one exception is “The Diary of Anne Frank,” set for April.

Huls called “The Foreigner” a classic “door-slamming comedy” about a man pretending he can’t speak English while at a fishing retreat in Georgia. In between he helps teach someone else the lan-guage and even has a run-in with the Ku Klux Klan.

“It’s hard to explain the show, but it’s a lot of fun,” he said.

The show is also a homecoming of sorts for director Alan Wilkie. Not only is Wilkie from Renton, he starred as one of the two leads the first time the theater put on the show.

Huls has been with the theater for 17 years and has been the artistic director for the past six. He called Renton Civic a “family friendly theater” that does a lot of classic plays, with a few new ones thrown in here and there, usual in the April slot.

This year, for the silver anni-versary, the season opened with “Grease” and will end in June with “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” which were the

two top picks from season ticket holders.

The Renton Civic Theater was built as a movie house in 1924. It showed movies until the theater group bought it in 1987.

Huls said there’s a magic in the old art deco theater that one can feel as soon as they enter the lobby.

“It’s got an aura about it,” he said. “When you walk in the door, you can forget about what’s going on out there.”

Renton Civic Theatre operates as a 401c3 non-profit organization. This year, as part of the 25th An-

niversary celebration, the theater is hosting a dinner and auction on March 9 to help raise money. According to Auction Chair Diana Kain, it’s the first time the theater has hosted an auction since 1998.

Actors from prior shows will be on hand to entertain and there are several top-level auction items to grab attention, includ-ing a five-night ski package in Sun River, Ore., a Torker three-wheeled bicycle and an autographed copy of Michael Jackson’s classic album “Thriller.”

And if the King of Pop is not

your style, there’s even a framed photograph of the original Star Trek crew, signed by every member of the cast.

“It’s a fun night to come out and support the theater,” Kain said.

All money from the auction goes toward the Summer Teen Musical, as well helping ensure that the silver anniversary season is not Renton Civic’s last.

“We intend to be here for another 25,” Kain said.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit www.rentoncivicthe-atre.org.

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Managing artistic Director Bill Huls works to adjust the lights on the set of ‘The Foreigner,’ opening Friday at Renton Civic Theatre, 507 S. Third St. BRian BeCkley, Renton Reporter

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Renton Fire and Emer-gency Service Department crews will be all over the city providing preventative screenings to the public for free during February as part of “Renton Heart Month.”

The annual effort is to increase public awareness about heart health issues and related cardiovascu-lar conditions, such as diseases, stroke and high blood pressure.

One big push has been to reach different cultures, who typically don’t see a primary doctor, said Lt. Tom Curtis of Renton Sta-tion 14.

Curtis was out with firefighters Mike Cabage and Charlie Nevegold on Monday doing free blood pressure and blood sugar checks at the Renton Walmart. Those who par-ticipated were given a card with guidelines for healthy and non-healthy ranges for each, as well as other com-

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Renton firefighters and emergency medical techni-cians have visited Renton businesses, the Spanish-speaking services at St. Anthony’s Catholic Parish, the Sikh Temple and the Great Wall Mall to name a few. Every single day of February a crew will be somewhere in the com-munity doing screenings. Visit: http://www.rentonwa.gov/government/default.aspx?id=31483

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Renton high school students will soon be prepared to act in cases of emergency and disaster around the school district.

Twenty students from Hazen and Lind-bergh high schools have been training for months in preparedness and exercise drills through the Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency (FEMA) TeenCERT. It is the teen version of the Community Emergency Response Team offered by Renton Fire and Emergency Services.

The teens are in training to become community emergency responders and will have their final drill on Feb. 23. This training will allow them to be used in their

schools and community in the case of emergencies and natural disasters.

The program is a joint venture between the district and Renton Fire and Emer-gency Services, with additional assistance from school resource officers of the Renton Police Department.

Students are trained in basic disaster response skills like fire suppression, search and rescue, team organization, assembly of medical treatment areas, applying basic first aid and helping reduce survivor stress.

Tom Walker, Hazen High School health science teacher, has been guiding the students in their work. He is a 20-year vol-

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When asked why the district would allow students to become emergency responders and not teachers, the district spokesperson had this to say:

“TeenCERT is completely voluntary,” said Randy Matheson. “Parents are sup-portive of their children being a part of this important program that so greatly benefits the community. Some teachers, like Tom Walker, are CERT certified.”

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The open house gives the public a chance to give in-put on what Renton should be like in 20 years. Inter-ested participants can also take a short online survey at rentonwa.gov/PlanUpdate. Information gathered at the open house and through the survey will be used to develop the vision for the Comprehensive Plan.

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I have to admit, when last week’s Renton Re-porter landed in my driveway, I quickly grabbed it and made a joke to my wife about the good-looking new assistant editor on page 3.

I, of course, also re-read the story about me, but when I got to the quote about working at my “hometown paper,” I cringed a bit. I had meant to say something about working for my local paper but used the word “hometown” and that’s not fair to either my actual hometown or folks who have grown up in or lived in Renton longer than I have.

Truth is, I have only lived in Renton for about a year, though to be fair, it was the best year of my life. Someday my children may refer to the city as their hometown, but I didn’t want to come off as some sort of claim jumper or panderer.

My actual “hometown” is Whitney Point, N.Y. It’s a tiny rural community in Upstate New York, north of Binghamton. It’s about 45 minutes south of Syracuse and an hour north of Scran-ton, Pa. (I don’t know why everyone seems to know where Scranton is, but for some reason, that’s the city most folks can mentally locate the

quickest.)But, to be fair, even that is

not my “hometown,” though it is where I graduated high school and my parents still live today, so I consider it such.

I spent my first six years or so in Philadelphia (GO PHILS!) and then moved to

Endicott, N.Y., a suburb of Binghamton in New York’s Southern Tier, before my folks bought the house out in the Point.

I went to college in Albany, where I majored in American history and minored in journalism. I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2002, when the girl I was with at the time got a job offer too good not to take.

It worked out better with the area than with the girl, however, as we went our separate ways a year later, her to Manhattan, me to, of all places, Tacoma.

I had gotten a job covering Bonney Lake out in East Pierce County for a paper in Puyallup and Tacoma was the closest actual city to the office. I didn’t expect to be in that apartment for particularly long, so much so that I didn’t even want to sign the year-long lease as I feared it was too long.

But time has a way of getting away from you, and before I knew it eight years had passed. I

had even begun to develop the “Tacoma gets a bad rap” chip on my shoulder.

When it came time for The Girl, who lived and works in Seattle, and I to move in together, we, like thousands of other residents and businesses, immediately recognized Renton was the place for us.

Location, location, location; right?Not only was Renton a good middle ground,

it provided me easy access to the highways and byways I need to get to both my office in Enum-claw (State Route 169) and my beat in Bonney Lake (State Route 167), as well as not being too far from Girl’s work.

We also loved the downtown and the more urban feel it provided and when we stumbled across our little Birdhouse (it’s a They Might Be Giants reference, for the record) in North Renton, we immediately fell in love with it.

We officially moved in Jan. 31, 2012. I proposed that night and we were married in September. And within the year, I had accepted the position as assistant editor at the Renton Reporter.

Like I said, best year of my life. Thanks, Renton!

And while Renton may not be my hometown, it is certainly my home now and I plan to be here for the foreseeable future.

Admittedly, I did not spend the last year doing too much exploring in the city, as The Girl and I had other things on our plate, as well as my stu-pid long commute. So, of course, we are looking for suggestions about things we absolutely must see/do/try in Renton.

I am sure I will have many years to discover all of the great things this city has to offer, but I’d

love to get some advice on where to start.For example, one resident called last week

with a lunch spot suggestion and I will absolutely check out that burger place very soon. Thanks for the tip.

I will be trying to bring some fresh eyes to the paper and the city and hope to share with you all what Emily and I find and do as we further invest ourselves in our neighborhood and com-munity.

As reporters, we often get more invested in the communities and cities we cover than where we live, since we spend so much time getting to know the players and issues in our beat. It often means our actual communities see less of us – and our involvement – than our beat cities. I certainly know that was the case with me. I easily spent more time and energy in – and was more invested in – Bonney Lake than Tacoma.

I am excited to now be investing all of my energy in the place where I live, for a change. But as I said, I am still learning and am by no means any sort of Renton expert yet.

So send in your suggestions and news tips. What should we see? Who should I meet? What do I absolutely need to know about Renton?

This may not be my hometown yet, but give me some time. I’ll get there. I promise.

And if you see me out in the stores or at a park or riding my bike along the Cedar River Trail, please don’t hesitate to say hello. To paraphrase Bogie, I hope this is the start of a beautiful friendship...

To comment on this story view it online at www.rentonreporter.com. Reach Assistant Edi-tor Brian Beckley at 425-255-3484, ext. 5054

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A new playground being designed for the Renton Highlands will literally and figura-tively pull down fences and allow a wider range of play for a wider range of students.

Co-located on land owned by the City of Renton and the Renton School District, the new accessible playground will offer play options for children of all ages and develop-mental abilities.

Designed to foster an inclusive envi-ronment where all children can play, the approximately one-acre playground will be built on the spot where two playgrounds currently sit, literally split down the middle

by a fence.“The new facility will be co-located,”

said Renton Parks Planning and Natural Resource Director Leslie Betlach, adding there will be no exchange of land between the city and the school district, but an interlocal agreement, which will include issues like maintenance of the new facility, is being drawn up.

Betlach said the idea for a fully accessible and inclusive playground began about three years ago. Betlach said all of the City of Renton’s playgrounds are accessible to dis-abled children to some degree, but the new one will take that to new levels, making sure each piece of play equipment is fully

accessible, no matter the child’s physical or mental disability.

“It’s a playground designed to stimu-late the physical, mental and senses and promotes working and playing alongside people who are fully able-bodied,” she said.

As designed, Betlach said the playground

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Carol Henry, landscape architect for Design Concepts, the firm responsible for designing the new playground, agreed.

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The caterpillar located in the early childhood play area and seen here in an artist’s rendering is set to become the new accessible playground’s signature piece. Image courtesy City of Renton

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Henry was on hand at the City Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night to provide an update on the project.

“It will be like no other that you have,” she told the council.

Henry said it was not enough to create a playground that students with disabilities could get to, but that there needed to be a place for all children to play “side by side.”

“We’re trying to make this not just an accessible play-ground, but an inclusive one,” she said.

To that extent, the designers have incorporated a series of themes into the new facility, including developmental-based features and equipment that can accommodate a broad range of age groups and abilities and encourage interaction between children of varied abilities.

“We’re not just getting some swing sets and four square,” she said.

The new playground will be interconnected by paths but split into multiple play areas, including an early childhood section, a nature play area, an area for older children with a climbing wall and even a “wavy walk” and music area.

“We don’t have music in any of our playgrounds,” Bet-lach said.

The early childhood area will also contain what Henry called the playground’s “signature piece,” a giant caterpillar for children to climb on and around.

Betlach said the caterpillar is a one-of-a-kind specialty item being made for the park.

Also in the playground will be swings designed specifi-cally for a wheelchair so children who cannot walk will still be able to swing.

While the playground has not yet been put out to bid, Betlach said the cost estimate is between $1 million and $2 million.

The city has lined up several community partners, in-cluding many that gave six-figure donations for the facility.

The Renton Community Foundation’s Custer Fund donated $200,000 for the playground. Another $150,000 came from the First Financial Northwest Foundation and an additional $124,000 came from the Renton Rotary.

The city also received a $65,000 King County Youth Sports Facility grant.

All involved talked about the great community partner-ships making this project possible.

“It’s a wonderful community asset that goes well beyond the school district,” said Renton District Spokesperson Randy Matheson.

“The fact that we were able to pull this together is a testa-ment to our close working relationship with the City of

Renton (and local service organizations),” he said. “It’s how government should work.”

Donations at any level – down to $10 and $25 – are also being accepted as the city encourages citizens to get involved in the new playground.

“Any donations help add to the pieces (in the play-ground),” said Community Services Department Adminis-trator Terry Higashiyama.

For more information, visit www.rentonwa.gov.

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a fence literally divides the two playgrounds presently located where the accessible playground will be built. Photo courtesy City of Renton


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David TaylorDavid Glen Taylor, born November 11, 1960 to Jay (Zeke)

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Betty Kuhlmann DeymonazBetty Kuhlmann Deymonaz, 81, a

former Renton resident, died on Sunday, February 3, 2013, in Olympia. She was born on October 18, 1931, in Oriska, North Dakota to C.B. and Mary McCann.

Betty will be remembered as a kind and gentle soul whose generosity and love touched all she met. Love you heaps, Mom.

In 1950, she married Dorhn Kuhlmann in Wimbledon, North Dakota. He died in 1987.

Betty attended college, earned her teaching certificate and later became an outstanding nurse’s assistant. She had been an important part of the Burn Unit team at Valley General Hospital in Renton, Washington.

Betty Kuhlmann married Leon Deymonaz in 1990 in Renton. He died in 2009. She attended Saint Anthony Catholic Church in Renton and donated her quilts for church fund raisers.

Betty is survived by her sons, David (ChayLim Son) Kuhlmann, Don (Dielda) Kuhlmann, and Doug (Gail) Kuhlmann; her daughters, Margaret (Don) Guymon, Debbie Suver, Ginny (Randy) Walls and Karen Kissler; her three step-sons, Richard, Robert and Eugene Deymonaz.; her brothers, Leroy McCann and Robert McCann; her sisters, Barbara Huber and Donna Gainsforth; ten grandchildren; five great grandchildren.

A Rosary will be said at 10:30 am followed by a Memorial Mass at 11:00 am on Saturday, February 16, 2013, at St. Paul Catholic Church, 833 SR 105 in Westport, Washington 98595. A reception for family and friends will be in the church social hall following the Mass.

A graveside service of inurnment will be at 10:00 am, Monday, February 18, 2013, at the Mount Olivet Cemetery in Renton, Washington. This will be followed by a reception at Bethlehem Lutheran Church 1024 Monroe Ave. N.E. Renton, Washington 98056. Arrangements are by the Coleman Mortuary in Hoquiam.

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Renton shop Com-mon Ground Coffee and Cupcakes, has the sweets to extend your Valentine’s Day into the weekend and beyond.

Owner Heng Woon makes about 10 kinds of cupcakes daily, all with but-tercream. This week, staff served special Valentine’s cupcakes, including Woon’s Red Velvet, Have a Heart and Maple Bacon cupcakes. The Red Velvet Cupcake is made with cream-cheese frosting. The Have a Heart

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The Hazen swim team continues to make waves with a second-place finish at the 3A championships this past weekend at the Hazen pool.

Nine Hazen boys earned second swims during Sat-urday’s championship finals and the team finished with an impressive 201 points and scored 14 swims at this weekend’s state champion-ships in Federal Way.

According to an email from coach Rick Wertman, Hazen’s performance in

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In the butterfly, three of the six finalists wore Highlander blue with Hazen swimmers taking the sec-ond, third and sixth-place spots on the podium.

Junior Malcom Mitch-ell finished second after his best swim of the year while senior co-captain Kyle Nelson followed in third, dropping an “amaz-ing” 3.5 seconds off his best time. Freshman Derek Wei finished sixth in his first district championships.

In the 500, the Highland-ers finished first and second with “super sophomore” Connor Broughton taking the lead over fellow High-lander Mitchell at the 300 yard mark and finishing in a season’s best time to win the championship.

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Kyle Nelson’s outstand-ing swim in the 100-yard butterfly, moved him from 12th position to third and earned Nelson a trip to state. Nelson also posted a team-fastest split of 22.44 seconds in his anchor leg of the 200

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The Renton boys basketball team’s magical season rolls on to the district tournament this weekend after the Indians bested White River 65-60 Feb. 9 to win the 2A sub-district tournament and earn the No. 1 seed.

Jonathon Patterson set the pace for the Indians with 22 points to lead all scorers.

White River went out fast, outscoring Renton 17-10 in the first quarter, but the Indi-ans did not panic and turned it around in the second to take a 32-30 lead into halftime.

The Hornets again came out strong to open the second

half, besting the Renton 17-14 in the third quarter, but the Indians refused to go down, winning the fourth quarter and the game.

The victory earns the 21-1 Indians the No. 1 seed in this weekend’s district tournament. As the top seed, Renton gets an opening round bye and then on Friday faces the loser of the Bremerton-Sumner game.

From there it is only two more victories to the District Championship game at the ShoWare Center.

Renton is next scheduled to play at 7:45 pm. Friday at Lakes High School with the opponent to be determined.IN BRIEF

• The Lindbergh boys basketball season ended this weekend as the Eagles dropped two games at the sub-district tournament, including an 67-62 overtime loss to Steilacoom that sealed their fate.

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By Brian Beckley

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The Renton High School girls basketball team kept their season alive with a big win Tuesday night over Kingston, 53-26, in a loser-out game in the opening round of the district tournament.

The Indians came out hot, dropping 17 points in the first quarter and 13 in the second to take a 30-16 lead into the half. The girls tacked on another 15 points in the third and eight in the final frame while continuing to hold the Buccaneers to single digits.

Taylor Farris again led the way for the Indians with 24 points to lead all scorers. Natajia McMillan added another 14 of her own.

The win means Renton moves on in the district tournament and will play

second-seeded Port Angeles on Thurs-day at Foss High School in Tacoma. The winner moves on to the semi-final game and the loser will play for fifth place, which would also secure a place in the regional tournament.

linDBerGHThe Lindbergh girls season came

to an end Tuesday night with a 42-28 first-round loss to Bremerton in the district 2A tournament.

Bremerton jumped out to a 14-2 lead in the first quarter and never looked back, holding the Eagles to single digits in every quarter.

Alexandria Witherspoon scored a team-leading 10 points for Lindbergh, followed by Paige Alloway with eight.

The first-round loss means Lind-bergh’s season comes to a close with a final record of 10-13.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Renton City Council has set a special two-day work- shop/retreat to be held from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day, Thursday, February 28, 2013, and Friday, March 1, 2013, at Merrill Gardens at Renton Centre, 104 Burnett Ave. S., Renton, WA 98055. The agenda will include the following: To be determined The meetings are open to the public. For information regarding compliance with the American Disabilities Act, and interpretive services for the hearing impaired, please contact the City Clerk Office at 425-430-6510.

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“My fingerprints are all over this place,” he said. “At some point, some days, I come in here and it feels like it was yesterday that I started.”

During the hiring process back in 1982, he learned what it meant to go through a public hiring process and the controversy that was brewing over his pay. In fact the hospital board had to move its meeting to the cafeteria to accommodate the expected large crowd and TV crews to consider his hiring.

Roodman’s first day was Monday, Jan. 3, 1983. He called his first meeting – with the union stewards. The unions were mad, he said. Then he ran to meetings with physi-cians and then community members. He had dinner with administrators the night before.

Communications and marketing became a hallmark of his administration.

And he formed a Consumer Advisory Council, not un-like the President’s Advisory Council, convened in 2010 to study the future of health care in South King County, help-ing to mold the criteria for a strategic alliance.

In the interview with the Renton Reporter, Roodman talked about his accomplishments and mistakes.

The annexationHis biggest mistake? “Well, that’s an open door,” he said,

laughing.“Oh, I would say that [he paused for a few seconds] I

would say that our most colossal mistake was thinking that there may be a chance to annex to the southeastern part of the district,” he said.

In 2006 the hospital district placed a measure on the May ballot, asking for voter approval to annex Maple Val-ley, Black Diamond and part of Enumclaw into the hospital district. It was an unprecedented loss – 94 percent voted against the measure, which had stirred intense community opposition.

“That was a terrible mistake, because only 6 percent of the people voted in favor of that and I’ll bet you that more than 6 percent of the people think that the sun comes up in

the west and sets in the east,” he said.A critic of the annexation at the time was Anthony

Hemstad, then Maple Valley’s city manager who is now vice president of the Public Hospital District No. 1 Board of Commissioners.

Roodman is an idea man. Some of his ideas pan out, some don’t.

“I don’t get an A on everything I try. Some are A-minus-es, some are Bs some are C-minuses and sometimes you fail,” he said. A boss once told him that everyone has their fair share of good ideas. If the planets align, then every-thing works out.

But what if the planets don’t align?“The guy who is successful is the one who knows what

to do when something goes wrong, because then you have to figure out how to pick up the pieces and put Humpty Dumpty back together again,” he said.

“It’s important to learn from one’s mistakes, to learn from C-pluses, because not every decision is an A,” he said.

Roodman was hired in late 1982 as superintendent of Public Hospital District No. 1, which owns Valley Medical

Center. He stepped down from that position in November 2011 to become CEO of Valley Medical Center under the strategic alliance with UW Medicine.

At 29 he was CEO of a not-for-profit hospital in Okla-homa, the youngest CEO in the Southwest for a hospital of that size.

Roodman wasn’t familiar with the workings of a public hospital district – including the highly public process to hire a new superintendent requiring not one, but two meetings. He had a letter offering him the job in Renton and he had already resigned his job in Oklahoma. But he was worried after getting a call from a reporter; he was on the phone to Hardwick.

Taking care of detailsHardwick, the commission chairman, kept reassuring

Roodman that the commission was just taking care of details. He did tell Roodman the board was going to have to move a meeting to the cafeteria because the board room was too small to hold a big crowd. Roodman asked why he was expecting a big crowd.

“He said, ‘I think we’re going to have a whole bunch of people show up and they are going to protest’,” Roodman said. “And the KKK is coming.”

Roodman asked Hardwick to explain that reference: KOMO, KING and KIRO, the Seattle TV stations.

There were protests about Roodman’s salary; commis-sioners hired Roodman at an annual salary of $95,000, which at the time made Roodman the highest paid official overseeing a public facility in the county, according to media reports.

“We swallowed hard and decided the hospital deserves an administrator that’s worth that much. That’s the least we could get this man for,” commissioner Leo Powers said in an interview at the time.

Today, Roodman’s salary is about $1.2 million, including a base salary of $745,000. The rest is his retention payment

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Successful man knows what to do when something goes wrong: Roodman

rich roodman was opening the Talbot Professional Building with 1989 with local physicians on the campus. Archival photo, July 1989

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Does he think he’s worth the money? “I think you generally get what you pay for,” he said.

After he was hired, Roodman and his staff got down to work, building partner-ships with the City of Renton, the Renton School District, Renton Technical College and the Renton Chamber of Commerce and reaching out to the community.

And he began to build the medical center campus as it exists today.

In 1984 Valley started the Valley Family Medicine residency program, affiliated with UW Medicine, with one or two residents. It was a way to grow Valley’s own physicians and the idea had worked in Oklahoma.

“Well, like just about everything along the way that became significant over the 30 years, at its first introduction it met with a tremendous amount of resistance,” Rood-man said. Current family practitioners feared the competition; but specialists saw this as a source of new referrals.

A place for docsIt’s the same philosophy that helped drive

the formation of the strategic alliance with UW Medicine. Valley Medical Center has a network of primary care clinics that feeds local specialists at the hospital, but now patients have easy access to the extensive specialties at the University of Washington.

“You gotta have docs in order to grow health care,” Roodman said.

Of course, the hospital needed a place for those doctors to practice. In 1989 the Talbot Professional Building opened as a joint venture between the hospital district and physicians.

“We created a win-win situation with physicians to invest in a facility on campus,” Roodman said.

The hospital district owns the land and the parking, which are leased to the physi-cians who borrowed the money to build the medical building. Southlake Clinic is in the building and Dr. Paul Joos, an eye surgeon

and president of the hospital commission, has his offices at the main entrance to the building.

“Any significant medical center throughout the country has medical

office buildings on campus,” Roodman said.Two years later the hospital district

worked with another group of physicians to develop the Medical Arts Building next door. And the North Professional Building houses Valley Family Medicine; it was be-ing built privately when Roodman arrived in 1983.

Two years ago, in February 2010, Valley opened its new seven-story, $115 million Emergency Services Tower – the Margarita Prentice Trauma Center. Today, Valley every year sees about 75,000 visits in its ER – more than Harborview, which sees more trauma patients than Valley. Valley’s urgent-care clinics see about 50,000 visits a year.

And then there are the babies. Lots of

babies.Valley’s state-of-the-art Birth Center

and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are what Roodman calls one of the “essential build-ing blocks” for the future of any regional medical center.

Before the center was built, Valley was delivering about 2,600 babies a year. Now that number is about 4,800. “That’s a reflec-tion of ‘If you build it, they will come,’” he said.

While Roodman talks about concrete and steel, he also talks about Valley’s “secret sauce.”

On staff are about 200 physicians and about 100 more on contract to work exclu-sively at Valley, he said, and even more have a business relationship with Valley through the medical office buildings.

The secret sauce“We have integrated with these physi-

cians, but at the same time I think, person-ally, what I am proudest of is the environ-ment as a place to work,” he said. Thank you notes from patients come not because of a piece of equipment or software, he said, but because of the people who care for them.

“That’s the secret sauce. It’s the people,” he said, and having a “good place to work.” Valley is regularly at the top of Best Places to Work lists in the nation.

“If the staff is happy, they will do any-thing to facilitate a good patient experi-ence,” he said.

Roodman has taken his hits from critics and the legal system over the years. Did he take it personally?

“Sure, before I was a hospital CEO I was a person,” he said. “And as a person you

couldn’t help but take it personally. But actually I think that that makes me pay at-tention and focus and try harder.”

Over the years Roodman has been courted by other medical centers; the last serious contact was about five years ago from Southern California.

He has said no. “What brought me here is what still keeps me here in a professional way. That is to innovate, evolve and imple-ment,” he said.

The decision was made pretty simple, he said, when his wife Cheryl (a former marketing executive at Valley Medical) said she didn’t want to move and the kids said, “Are you crazy.”

Roodman of Mercer Island has five children, Adam, 36, Lindsay, 34, Amanda, 27, Allie, 20, and Madison, 17, and three grandchildren.

Roodman still has work to do at Valley, mainly seeing through the implementation of the strategic alliance with UW Medicine that will take three to five years.

“As long as I have the energy and the health and it’s fun, I think I am in the game,” he said.

He declined to comment on a legal chal-lenge by the hospital commission against UW Medicine over the alliance that could end up in the state Supreme Court. But he spoke out about the alliance itself.

“The affiliation with the university has been a godsend,” Roodman said. “And I think it will be the single best thing that will propel health care here in the south end more than any of these other things.”

Will the alliance be his legacy as CEO of Valley Medical Center?

“I hope so,” he said, and then a little quieter, “I hope so.”

“That’s the secret sauce. It’s the people.” Rich Roodman, CEO, Valley Medical Center

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