News

The Northwest Safety and Quality Partnership continues the focus in April on our priority quality measure of diagnostic excellence as we offer part two of three of our Diagnostic Errors webinar series provided by Kaiser Permanente. ... Read More >>

WSHA is dedicated to ensuring the health and safety of our members, while continuing to offer high-quality educational content. With that in mind, it is my pleasure to share details of the WSHA Spring Forward eSeries.... Read More >>

Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest will celebrate National Healthcare Decisions Day on April 16 this year with a collection of joyous live events, motivating inspiration and a reflective challenge to encourage people to do advance care planning.... Read More >>

Co-occurring mental health disorders can complicate and undermine treatment of opioid use disorders and overwhelm providers. The University of Washington’s Addictions, Drug and Alcohol Institute (ADAI) will offer a free seminar for providers in April and May on “Improving psychiatric care in patients with opioid use disorder: Sorting through multiple diagnoses and polypharmacy.”... Read More >>

Please join us next week for the webinar, Misclassification of American Indian and Alaska Native Patients, 10-11 a.m. Thursday, April 1 to learn about culturally-sensitive collection of race and ethnicity data and the impact of American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) misclassification.... Read More >>

Join Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest senior director Sue Bergmann, MBA, BSN, WA POLST Task Force co-chair Sharmon Figenshaw, ARNP, and WSMA director of continuing professional development Jessica Martinson for a tour of the new documents. ... Read More >>

The Pacific Northwest Sepsis Conference on May 3-4 is in its 9th year of providing high-quality sepsis education to an international community of people interested in improving sepsis care and outcomes. ... Read More >>

Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest is offering free Monthly Public Webinars in 2021. The two presentations being offered are: Understand Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives and Completing Your Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare.... Read More >>

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has launched its new People Matter, Words Matter poster series to help combat behavioral health stigma in health care settings by encouraging providers to adopt respectful, patient-centered language.... Read More >>

WSHA’s Women’s Leadership Program combines academic instruction, skill building, peer coaching and networking to help people who identify as women advance their careers. The program is intended for individuals with at least five years post-graduate or supervisory experience. ... Read More >>