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The annual 340B Program Recertification period for Hospitals will be August 24-September 19, 2022. The Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) of the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) requires... Read More >>

September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and WSHA will spend the month sharing resources and stories about how our member hospitals are spreading awareness of the condition... Read More >>

n response to the release of a Uniform Facility Enforcement Framework (UFEF) bill, which proposes to create expanded oversight and enforcement tools, including facility fines, as required under SHB 2426 (2020), WSHA has submitted feedback to the Department of Health (DOH)... Read More >>

WSHA and the Association of Public Hospital Districts (AWPHD) will host a three-part webinar series between September and November to support rural hospitals that serve patients with substance use disorders... Read More >>

WSHA will host a DELTA Day Oct. 10, 2022 and ACCELERATE webinars Sept. 26, 2022 (a pre-DELTA Day prep webinar); Nov. 14, 2022; Dec. 12, 2022; and Jan. 9, 2023 on environmental cleaning and infection prevention... Read More >>

The Health Care Cost Transparency Board (HCCTB) began examining hospital costs and prices at its latest meeting. The HCCTB’s consultant presented information on how Washington hospitals compare to all similarly sized hospitals in the nation on price and cost per discharge and identified those that are high-cost and high-price “outliers” compared to national medians... Read More >>

Recent member news from the Aug. 25, 2022 Weekly Report... Read More >>

The purpose of this bulletin is to inform hospitals of newly adopted rules around patient demographic data required to be reported to the Department of Health (DOH) via the Comprehensive Hospital Abstract Reporting System (CHARS) under chapter 246-455 WAC. The new rules also establish a waiver for eligible hospitals. These rules are adopted pursuant to 2021 Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1272 (E2SHB 1272).... Read More >>

Join Washington Hospital Services Industry Partner Pivio for a webinar giving an overview of lifestyle medicine and efficacy from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, Sept. 22... Read More >>

The state of Washington recently passed a first-in-the-nation law requiring full private insurance coverage of immediate postpartum contraception (IPPC)... Read More >>