Thriving Washington Radiology Group Gives Back
Radia Partners with Hospitals, Physicians and R&E
In his best selling book Good to Great, author Jim Collins says one of the requirements for corporate success is being passionate about your product or service.
As president of Radia, the largest radiology group in the Pacific Northwest, Jack Little, M.D., is keenly focused on providing state-of-the-art radiology services. But he’s passionate about collaboration—both within Radia’s radiology and vascular surgery practice and within the group’s partnerships with other healthcare providers.
Established in 1997 with the merger of two separate radiology practices, Radia has grown to serve 10 hospitals as well as outpatient facilities and clinics across the state of Washington. The group offers a full range of range of services including PET, CT, MR US, vascular surgery and interventional radiology.
“In our company culture, every employee has value,” said Dr. Little. “Our goal is to create a community in which people can operate effectively.”
For members of the Radia group, that often means working in tandem with others who are equally focused on providing efficient, patient-centered care.
“Our goal is to increase our interaction with our customers, to help them to solve their problems and to make their practices work better,” he said.
Physicians using Radia’s services rely on the fact that the group’s 70 radiologists represent virtually every subspecialty—and that they are always at-the-ready. So that subspecialists can consult on complex patient cases from wherever they are in the system, Radia has made a significant investment to connect all of its facilities via teleradiology—branded teleRadia™ by the group.
To provide comprehensive vascular care, Radia combined the expertise of vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists to create the Radia Center for Vascular Disease, which provides diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the circulatory system.
With Radia’s success comes a desire for yet another partnership—with the R&E Foundation. In 2007, Radia joined the Visionaries in Practice program as a Silver Member.
“We have a sense of stewardship toward the profession,” Dr. Little said. “We believe we have a responsibility to give back. The R&E Foundation will ultimately impact and further the practice of radiology,” he added. “We want to help the field continue to thrive.”
