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The Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission (PQAC) is conducting rulemaking on prescription label accessibility and has released a survey for licensees to inform its work. Please ensure that your hospital’s pharmacy leaders respond to the survey by at 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16... Read More >>

The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) will host several Certificate of Need (CN) listening sessions in October to solicit from feedback from stakeholders to inform its future rulemaking for the CN program... Read More >>

The Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission (PQAC) issued a guidance document regarding prescription drug pick up lockers... Read More >>

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a rule change in August that modified the public health and clinical data exchange objectives by adding an antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance (AUR) measure that will be required to be implemented by the 2024 reporting period (with few exceptions)... Read More >>

On Oct. 1, the Health Care Authority (HCA) implemented a new policy and related daily reimbursement for an administrative day rate for a new population. This new policy includes birthing parents and their newborn who had an in-utero exposure to a substance that may lead to physiologic dependence and non-pharmacologic firstline treatment by the birth parent... Read More >>

Join Washington Hospital Services at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1 for the webinar “How to Follow Up on Findings from Your DOH/CMS/DNV Inspection.”... Read More >>

WSHA staff and hospital members recently returned from Washington, D.C., after a successful trip advocating for hospitals during Rural Advocacy Days! This marked the first time since the start of the pandemic that WSHA staff and members made the trip the nation’s capital for what is typically an annual event... Read More >>

The Psychiatry Consultation Line (PCL) is a free service offered to all providers in Washington State to create convenient access to psychiatric consultation when treating a patient with a behavioral health concern... Read More >>

Join Washington Hospital Services Industry Partner Sensato for the webcast “Refocusing Your Medical Device Security Program Around Protecting Human Life,” at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11. The webcast will be a panel discussion facilitated by HealthsystemCIO... Read More >>

Join Washington Hospital Services Industry Partner Pivio from 11 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Oct. 25, for the webinar, “Elements of a Quality Health Improvement Program.” The webinar will cover the importance of a QHIP and how can it benefit your organization, the markers of success of a QHIP, and how to market a QHIP to patients and employees... Read More >>