News

This week five members of WSHA’s staff, along with colleagues from Alaska and WSHA member Three Rivers Hospital, traveled to Baltimore to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ annual Quality Conference.... Read More >>

Wednesday, February 14 was the cutoff for bills to be voted out of their house of origin and move to the opposite house for consideration. If a policy bill did not pass its house of origin, it is technically dead. Because bills can be amended, nothing is truly dead until the legislature adjourns. ... Read More >>

WSHA and the Department of Social and Health Services hosted a webinar about the requirements of Ricky's Law (HB 1713) that impacts patients and hospitals.... Read More >>

To connect residents to care much closer to home, Ilwaco-based Ocean Beach Hospital opened its latest clinic in the peninsula community of Ocean Park. The hospital broke ground on the clinic last summer and held its grand opening in January. ... Read More >>

WSHA has filed an amicus curiae brief in Division I of the Washington State Court of Appeals on behalf of our membership. The case involves a hospital’s independent right to participate in a mental health detention proceeding. ... Read More >>

More than 300,000 patients in the United States require mechanical ventilation as a life-saving therapy annually. Complications are not uncommon, as are increased lengths of stay, high health care costs and high likelihood of readmission. ... Read More >>

Recent member news from the February 15, 2018 Weekly Report.... Read More >>

The next sessions of the LEAD Academy begin next month. ... Read More >>

In this webinar, we learned how your health system can better respond to the needs of your community by cultivating a more inclusive and participatory approach to partnerships.... Read More >>

Early this morning Congress passed a sweeping budget bill that funds the federal government through March 23, 2018. WSHA is very pleased the bill also includes a number of important health care provisions, including fixing — at least in the short term — some payment issues that WSHA members have been advocating for the past few months.... Read More >>