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The March of Dimes is accepting nominations for 2022 Heroes in Action (formerly known as the Nurse of the Year awards). ... Read More >>

The Washington State Legislature passed two important law changes for audio-only telemedicine during the 2022 legislative session that build on the 2021 audio-only telemedicine law.... Read More >>

The UW Medicine Department & Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences invites Washington State health care providers who want to improve the well-being and outcomes of their pregnant and postpartum patients to participate in its upcoming free, CME-accredited, virtual conference series.... Read More >>

Access to housing is one of the most common barriers to discharge from the inpatient setting.... Read More >>

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidance for telehealth providers on how they can use remote communications technologies for audio-only telehealth in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).... Read More >>

Join Washington Hospital Services Industry Partner WHIT (Western Healthcare Insurance Trust) for a webinar on “Updates on the Washington Long Term Care Trust Act” from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. ... Read More >>

Please join Washington Hospital Services (WHS) from 12–1 p.m. on July 19 for a webinar with Industry Partner CommerceHealthcare to learn how this organization can help hospitals improve their remittance and payment reconciliation process.... Read More >>

Recent member news from the June 30, 2022 edition of the Weekly Report newsletter. ... Read More >>

The Supreme Court found in favor of the AHA, reversing a prior ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and holding that, absent a survey of hospital acquisition costs, HHS may not vary the reimbursement rates only for 340B hospitals... Read More >>

All health care providers know the challenge of health-care-acquired infections (HAIs), especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the HAI improvements from before the pandemic were lost because of it... Read More >>