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The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) announced that it will host a series of facility-specific listening sessions between September 2022 and January 2023 as part of its Certificate of Need (CN) rulemaking... Read More >>

The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has developed and shared an online TPOXX training... Read More >>

Washington Hospital Services (WHS) is pleased to welcome UMC to the lineup of Industry Partner products and services available to WSHA member hospitals... Read More >>

Recent member news from the Sept. 1, 2022, Weekly Report... Read More >>

The purpose of this bulletin is to inform hospitals of changes made by Substitute House Bill 1893 which allows emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to practice outside of emergency settings...... Read More >>

Approximately 5,000 nursing assistants working in nursing homes must complete their exams by Oct. 5 or they will no longer be able to work... Read More >>

WSHA commented on a recent preproposal draft rule for E2SHB 1688 which was passed during the 2022 legislative session. E2SHB 1688 aligns the state’s Balance Billing Protection Act with the... Read More >>

WSHA commented on the Health Care Authority’s (HCA) preproposal draft rule for ESSB 1196, which was passed during the 2021 legislative session. ESSB 1196 builds on Washington state’s telemedicine payment parity... Read More >>

Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of the Treasury released their interim final rule on the independent... Read More >>

Preliminary non-CPE Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) applications for state fiscal year 2023 must be submitted to Health Care Authority or before September 1, 2022 to receive consideration for the SFY... Read More >>