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Join us for a webinar at 1 p.m. July 27 to learn more about Washington State’s new law to address the opioid crisis through enhancements in the state prescription drug monitoring program. Experts from the Department of Health, WSMA and WSHA will provide an overview of the new law, discuss how new prescribing and overdose data will be available for providers, and address how hospitals, health systems and independent practices should be thinking about implementation of this new law and next steps in addressing the opioid crisis.... Read More >>

Nominations are now open for WSHA’s Joe Hopkins Memorial Award and the Community Health Leadership Award, which will be presented at WSHA’s 85thAnnual Member Meeting Oct. 12 in Seattle.... Read More >>

This legislative session, the state legislature passed HB 2202, which was proposed by AWPHD and provided clarity on which emergency medical technicians (EMTs) were eligible to participate in the Law Enforcement Officers’ and Fire Fighter’s (LEOFF) retirement program, which is a more robust and expensive alternative to regular retirement programs. With the passage of the bill, only EMTs at hospital districts who are full-time employees and are rendering care at the scene of an emergency or transporting patients in an ambulance will be eligible for LEOFF. The bill resulted in a savings of more than $8 million for hospital districts.... Read More >>

The U.S. Health Services and Resources Administration (HRSA) announced last week that a group of Washington’s frontier hospitals received a one-year grant for nearly $100,000 to develop a community-based, long-term care network. AWPHD and WSHA led the effort to pull the network together and pursue the grant.... Read More >>

Recent member news from the July 20, 2017 Weekly Report.... Read More >>

The purpose of this bulletin is to help providers and Accountable Communities of Health (ACH) consider critical elements needed for behavioral health integration... Read More >>

You asked for it, we’re adding it. LEAD Academy will launch a second Seattle session starting in September. LEAD Academy is an intensive six-day, 12-module tool-based training using experiential learning to empower recently hired, newly appointed or previously untrained health care leaders to better understand and use their strengths. ... Read More >>

The Washington State Hospital Association remains deeply concerned with the Senate’s approach to repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Most of the underlying provisions of the new bill, including deep cuts to Medicaid, are unchanged from the previous draft and will result in dramatically fewer Washingtonians having access to health coverage and care.... Read More >>

The purpose of this bulletin is to inform hospitals to use the updated Single Bed Certification (SBC) form for mental health patients who are involuntarily detained under RCW 71.05. ... Read More >>

Changes to the hospital safety net assessment program law include new provisions for the quality incentive program. ... Read More >>