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WSHA and member hospitals are participating a stakeholder group, along with the Medicaid managed care organizations (MCOs) to discuss HCA’s plan to revise its payment policy for potentially preventable hospital readmissions.... Read More >>

WSHA submitted a comment letter strongly opposing provisions in CMS’s proposed outpatient rule that would reduce by 25 percent payments for outpatient drugs provided by 340B eligible hospitals.... Read More >>

Hospitals are required to care for everyone who comes through the door with the most intense care that is needed and available, regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. Hospitals are also required to help low-income patients cover their medical bills through charity care. This helps ensure that everyone is able to get the right care, at the right place, at the right time.... Read More >>

Camp Trios is a summer day camp program for children ages 6-14 with Type 1 diabetes. The goal of the three-day camp is to teach participants about their diagnoses and provide them with tools for managing it in a way that doesn't limit their daily life.... Read More >>

Harborview Medical Center is working across the continuum to help meet patient needs and protect community safety. The Pain and Addictions Strategic Oversight Committees integrate the work of multiple programs and departments that care for patients with complex pain control challenges and substance use disorders.... Read More >>

Thank you to all the leadership teams and individuals who have supported the Washington Hospital Political Action Committee (WHPAC)! As our way of saying thank you, we would like to invite donors of more than $350 to dinner at the Seattle Aquarium on Wednesday, October 11, the evening before our Annual Member Meeting.... Read More >>

Rebecca Onie is the co-founder and CEO of Health Leads. Health Leads arms health care institutions with the tools, technology, analytics, best practices and peer community necessary to address their own patients’ resource needs. Rebecca will deliver the opening plenary at the WSHA Annual Member Meeting on Thursday, October 12. Her session will focus on how Health Leads has been successful empowering health care providers to address all patients’ basic resource needs as a standard part of quality care.... Read More >>

The American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust just published a new Readmissions Trail Guide. This guide is intended to help hospitals identify where they are on the path of reducing readmissions so they can jump back on the trail to get to the desired destination. This tool can be used by hospitals that are just starting out or hospitals that have lost their way.... Read More >>

The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) are seeking participants to join their learning collaborative on managing population health and succeeding in new physician payment models that take effect in early 2019. The collaborative will begin in April 2018 and end in June 2019. Applications are due October 20.... Read More >>

You have an opportunity to let educators, policymakers and others around the state know about your health work force needs. The Washington Health Workforce Sentinel Network identifies the emerging occupations, skills and roles in demand at health care sites across the state. You can add your voice by being a Sentinel.... Read More >>