Aubrey Davis

Inducted:1991

Aubrey Davis is the embodiment of leadership, foresight and cooperative spirit. For 40 years he served Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, the nation’s largest cooperative health maintenance organization. He held every elected position, including seven terms as chair of the cooperative. In 1988, he was appointed president and chief executive officer of the nearly 500,000-member cooperative, a position he held with great distinction. In 1991, he was named Group Health’s first president emeritus. In addition, Davis made significant contributions to the cooperative health care system in the country. In the words of Seattle Mayor Norman Rice: “Aubrey’s idea of a cooperative is a commitment to helping other people.”

Maurice J. McKay

Inducted:1987

Maurice J. McKay was the chief executive officer of Group Health Plan, Inc. from 1960 to 1982. He was one of the leading pioneer managers of a successful member-owned and managed health care system. Under his stewardship, Group Health grew from a struggling plan of a few hundred members to a membership of over 200,000.

Group Health, Inc. served as a model that led to the extensive development of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and to the resulting revolutions of the American healthcare system. McKay gave strong support to the organization and development of other midwestern health plans as well. He played a key role in obtaining enactment of a nonprofit law governing HMOs in Minnesota. McKay served on the board of directors of the Group Health Association of America for nearly a quarter of a century.

Dr. W.A. (Sandy) MacColl

Inducted:1985

Dr. William (Sandy) MacColl was a leader of the cooperative movement and the HMO industry for many years. In the mid-1940s, he was one of the chief negotiators in merging a Seattle-based medical clinic with a far-sighted consumer group in Seattle, forming Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. In 1946, he joined 12 cooperative groups in setting up the Cooperative Health Federation of America, now Group Health Association of America. MacColl is well known for his publications on cooperative health care, including ‘Group Practice and the Prepayment of Medical Care.’ In addition, he was one of the original incorporators of the Hood Canal Cooperative, a land use and recreational organization. He was a consultant to numerous fledgling health plans and at the time of the doctors’ strike in Saskatchewan, he assisted in the development of a cooperative health organization in Prince Albert.

Jack R. Cluck

Inducted:1983

With a small band of supporters from the Grange and Aero-Mechanics Union, Jack Cluck led the merger with the Medical Security Clinic that formed Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Then, serving as prosecutor in the landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the State of Washington found the local medical society in restraint of trade for denying membership to Group Health Cooperative physicians, Cluck defended the fundamental right of consumers to organize the delivery of their health care. Jack Cluck’s entire professional life was oriented toward the organization of cooperatives. Through the 1930s, he was instrumental in the formation of many agricultural and rural electric cooperatives in Western Washington.

Michael Shadid, M.D. (1882 – 1966)

Inducted:1978

Dr. Michael Shadid taught basic cooperative principles to a group of Oklahoma farmers and showed them how to organize comprehensive prepaid medical care with their own hospital and staff. He was considered a ‘Doctor for the People’. He served as first president of the Cooperative Health Federation of America in 1946. He consistently spoke and wrote about his message of cooperative health care: prepayment, group medical practice, comprehensive care, business management by patients’ representatives, and no lay interference with the professional practice of medicine. He devoted himself to helping people obtain economical, quality health care.