Bruce W McKinnon

9C. Director

WR Board of Directors, Washington State

Representing 17,000 Realtors in Washington State

>2010-2013 Board of Directors 
>2011 Executive Committee
>2011 Regional Representative (Central Puget Sound)
>2010-2012 Information Systems Committee
>2011 Legislative Steering Committee

9B. Director, 2010 President

SCCAR / SNOHOMISH COUNTY – CAMANO ASSOCIATION of REALTORS

Membership: 1,200 (21 member Board of Directors)

SCCAR is a not-for-profit Association consisting of 1,200 active, Washington State licensed real estate agents, but only those licensed agents who have also attained the status of REALTOR. A Realtor providing services in Snohomish County is a dues paying member of 3 Associations: 

(1) NAR - National Association of Realtors,
(2) WR - Washington Realtors
(3) SCCAR

ONLY 46% of the licensed real estate agents in Washington are REALTORS -- 54% are not. A REALTOR is obligated by membership to abide by the NAR Code of Ethics and to take Ethics Courses every 2 years. The SCCAR Board of Directors consists of 21 members ELECTED by the membership to the position of Director / Officer.

My POSITIONS

> 2003-2011 Government Affairs Committee
> 2005-2008 Ethics Hearings Panel
> 2007-2010 Education Committee
> 2006-2011 Communications Committee
> 2004-2011 SCCAR Board of Directors
> 2006 Vice President of Government Affairs
> 2007 Vice President of Communications & Public Relations

> 2009 SCCAR President Elect
> 2010 SCCAR President
> 2011 SCCAR Past President

http://www.sccar.com/webpage/webpage.cfm?UUID=2A326637-3048-B0F6-6ABB3E762BC361DC&ItemID=278&SubItemID=295

9A. Managing Broker

SPECIALTY: Luxury Homes / Puget Sound View & Waterfront Property |||| Represent buyers and sellers on land and residential real estate transactions.

WINDERMERE REAL ESTATE: 8th largest (rapidly expanding) privately held real estate firm in US--offices in 10 states (over 200 in Washington state alone). 

47% MARKET SHARE: Windermere commands largest market share in the Greater Seattle area (closest competitor - 9%) and is acknowledged to be the most successful and professional real estate firm in Washington. Windermere was founded in 1972 (one office) in the Windermere neighborhood of Seattle. 

My Mukilteo (Mukil-t-eo, population 22,000) office is located just 25 miles north of downtown Seattle. The city is surrounded on 2 sides by the Puget Sound and the school district is recognized as the best west of Interstate 5. This office is centrally located within the Puget Sound area that I service (Woodway, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mukilteo and Everett to the north in Snohomish County).

8. CEO

Administrator of DMOS: Iowa's largest orthopedic practice (then 17 orthopedic surgeons covering 7 subspecialites plus 3 podiatrists, 75 staff, 17 satellite locations, in-house surgery, MRI, Radiology, PT, OPT, HT). DMOS is a private multi-speciality surgical group pactice located in a state-of-the-art 60,500 SF facility in West Des Moines, Iowa. The physician group also served as team physicians for the Iowa Barnstormers (arena football team) plus 2 semi-pro teams, The Des Moines Menace (soccer) and the Des Moines Buccaneers (hockey). 

I retired in 1998 after 34 years in healthcare (20 years as CEO) and moved family back to Washington state. Retirement (for Bruce) was short lived due to stock market fiasco of 1999/2000.

7. CEO

Administrator of Colorado's 2nd largest orthopedic group (then 11 orthopedic surgeons, 9 PA's and 49 staff including a sophisticated research department) located in downtown Denver. 

Designed "to scale" floor plan for 18,500 SF orthopedic clinic (26 exam rooms, 3 x-ray rooms, 2 minor surgery suites, 13 doctors offices, physical therapy, research department, medial records, business operations, administration and waiting room). Bid out furniture and equipment and x-ray systems. Re-designed computing systems and outsourced network Development. 

Orchestrated and facilitated merger of 6 orthopedic independent groups to form Denver Orthopedic Specialists, PC with 40 specialists covering 11 hospitals, then the largest private orthopedic group proactice in the US.

6. CEO

Formed and became Administrator of Greater Seattle's (then) largest multi-speciality sports medicine group practice (orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians and family medicine specialists with additional fellowship training in sports medicine -- 23 staff). The medical group at that time also served as team physicians for the University of Washington athletic teams. The HEAD team physician was Steve Bramwell, MD (orhopedic sports medicine).

5. CEO & President

MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT: (1) medical practice development, mergers & acquisitions and contract preparation & negotiation.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT EVALUATIONS: Analyzed functions, productivity, fees and presented/reported findings.

STREAMLINED OPERATIONS: Maximized 3rd party reimbursement, designed forms/collection systems and trained staff.

DESIGNED CLINICS: (1) designed floor plans for 9 medical buildings: OB-GYN-6,000 SF & 3,500 SF, pediatrics-10,000 SF; Dermatology-7,500 SF; ENT 4,000 SF, ophthalmology-2,500 SF, dental-2,500 SF, family practice-8,000 SF and plastic surgery-3,000 SF, (2) negotiated financing, construction & architectural contracts, and (3) supervised construction.

DESIGNED SOFTWARE - SOLD COMPUTER SYSTEMS: Formed computer firm & hardware dealership (OEM/VAR, 3 staff). Designed billing system for medical groups. Demonstrated, sold and installed 12 systems ($50,000+/installation), trained staff and provided technical support.

4. Administrative Assistant & Consultant

LEVEL II, 512 BED TRAUMA HOSPITAL: Part-time Administrative Assistant & Consultant while attending graduate school-reported to Executive Director. Assigned projects in collections, materials management, cart logistics, organizational development and unit dose. Designed microfilm MIS and inventory control system for orthopedic implants in O.R. Developed plan for reorganizing O.R. and patient discharge program.

HATTIESBURG was a middle income community of 35,000 (now 50,000) located in south central Mississippi, 120 miles north of New Orleans. It was then ranked 1st in healthcare and 6th as a place to live in the Places Rated Guide. The city has 2 colleges (USM-University of Southern Mississippi-16,000 students AND and William Carey University-2,500 students), 2 major hospitals (Forrest General-512 beds and Wesley Mecial Center-210 beds) and 461 physicians. Hattiesburg is the home of the Hattiesburg Clinic, PA, one of top, largest private group practices in US (over 230 physicians).

3. Administrator

MANAGED 30 MD / 120 EMPLOYEE MEDICAL GROUP: Largest multi-specialty group in Mississippi - today one of 100 largest private groups (t230 physicians today) in the US. Specialties then: Surgery (general, thoracic, vascular, cardiovascular), neurosurgery, orthopedics, ENT, OB-GYN, pulmonology, nephrology, cardiology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, hematology, oncology, internal medicine, neurology and family practice. Ancillary departments: P.T., dietary, EEG/EMG, treadmill, pulmonary functions, dialysis, pathology & radiology.

DIRECTED OPERATIONS: Designed personnel policies and systems for appointments, registration, medical records, billing, insurance and inventory control. First Administrator in U.S. to computerize 1974 California Relative Value Study (CRVS).

Served as “clerk-of-works” on 5-story clinic construction program (90,000 SF). Recruited 13 MD's (practice grew from 17 to 30 M.D.’s). Coordinated activities of 3 organizations (including group practice, leasing & building corporations).

Author: ""The Superbill--A Uniform Billing and/or Claims System." (MGMA / Medial Group0 Management Association, Denver, Colorado; 54 pages, published July 1974)

2. Assistant Director

Medical Education & Research Foundation: Now HealthPartners Clinics, MERF was a not-for-profit, 501 (C) 3 corporation AND physicians billing office for physicians treating patients at St Paul Ramsey Hospital & Medical Center (now Regions Hospital), a level I, 550 bed teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Minnesota Medical Center (Minneapolis). 

Managed 80 employee, physician' billing office for multi-million dollar academic plan: Reorganized, designed and equipped new 5,000 SF business office. Directed operations. Responsible for systems work on new computer system designed for billing, insurance and collections. 

Key player in the development of what became the first managed care contract in Minnesota between a fee - for - service group (Ramsey M.D.'s) and a fully capitated system (at that time called Group Health of St. Paul), before Paul M. Ellwood, M.D., founder of Interstudy and the Outcomes Institute (Minnesota), coined the term “HMO.”

1. Multi-Line Claims Adjuster / Medicare Supervisor

(1) Multiple-line Adjuster (July 1964 to March 1967): Property and casualty insurance claim investigator and examiner (e.g., life, long term disability, general & professional liability, automobile, homeowners, worker’s compensation and boiler & machinery). Prepared claims for arbitration and subrogation and interrogatories for defense counsel. Collected monies on fidelity, surety and uninsured motorist’s claims.

(2) Supervised 20 employee Medicare Part B claim unit (March 1967 to June 1969): Duties included formulation of policy, writing training manuals and teaching ICD-8 and procedure coding (1964 CRVS) for data entry. Formulated reimbursement factors between hospital-based physicians and hospitals. Performed studies on physicians’ fees and utilization.