The King County Council voted 11 to 1 on July 10 to place a $193 million capital bond proposal for Harborview Medical Center on the Sept. 19 primary election ballot. If passed, the proposal will fund improvements to safeguard Harborview in the event of a major local earthquake. According to seismic experts, older portions of Harborview would not withstand a major earthquake.

The funds generated by a bond issue would be combined with $72.1 million of interest income, capital funds and other revenues for a total of $263.3 million.

Lawrence R. Robinson, professor of rehabilitation medicine and physiatrist-in-chief at Harborview Medical Center, has been named chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine. His appointment is effective Aug. 1, pending UW Board of Regents' approval. (Full Story)

John C. Anderson, a 1973 graduate of the UW School of Medicine, has been named Washington state's 2000 Family Physician of the Year by the Washington Academy of Family Physicians. (Full story)

The Board of Regents on June 9 approved changing the orthopaedics department's official name to the Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. (Full story)