Registration is now open for WSHA’s Annual Meeting in October, which also means it’s time to make nominations for WSHA’s 2018 Community Health Leadership Award, which will be given out at the Annual Meeting October 11 in Seattle.... Read More >>
Registration is now open for WSHA’s 2018 Annual Member Meeting and Governance Education Day — October 11 and 12, respectively — at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront. The theme of this year’s Annual Meeting is Innovative Leadership for Tomorrow’s Health Care.... Read More >>
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle is best known for its cancer research and treatment, but it also offers a program that allows local educators to harness some of that knowledge and bring it back to share with their students. Through the program — the Science Education Partnership (SEP) — about two-dozen secondary school science teachers from across the state spend three weeks at Fred Hutch, learning new techniques in a teaching lab and getting paired with an ongoing research project in a scientist’s lab.... Read More >>
The Washington State Department of Health is recruiting for an assistant secretary, who will work directly with the secretary of health and members of the agency executive team on high-level policy and strategic issues.... Read More >>
Health care organizations have a new option for providing physicians access to long-term supplemental disability insurance at a reduced cost through WSHA Industry Partner InsMed. Institutions with more than 75 employed physicians can offer their physicians individual disability insurance to supplement their current group coverage.... Read More >>
Looking to keep up on the latest changes in payment and coding? Sign up for the PARA HealthCare Analytics weekly newsletter. Recent issues have covered topics including billing for point-of-care testing and updates on OPPS and HCPCS. ... Read More >>
In an effort to continue to promote the very best care and safety to patients in Washington, WSHA launched Maternity Watch in fall 2017. This is a new program designed to optimize early recognition and response to maternal warning signs for severe hypertension/preeclampsia, maternal hemorrhage, sepsis and cardiopulmonary events to reduce severe maternal morbidity and mortality.... Read More >>
To give those in the Vancouver community a place of refuge during a difficult time, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center early this year opened the new Douglas and Heather Greene Legacy Breast Health Center, which combines the medical center’s existing breast health services and expands the services offered.... Read More >>
The Medical Quality Assurance Commission (MQAC) is seeking comments on its newly released proposed rule on opioid prescribing, as required by House Bill 1427. The current proposal is drastically improved from previous iterations, but WSHA and the Washington State Medical Association’s Opioid Taskforce are still concerned about the volume of administrative burden and liabilities the rules place on providers and hospitals.... Read More >>
Completing one of the four-hour in-person courses and a four-hour online follow-up course allows physicians to prescribe buprenorphine for office-based treatment of opioid use disorder.... Read More >>
