UW developing self-swab home testing for COVID-19
One of those scientists is Dr. Helen Chu, a certified physician with UW Medicine who has prompted the rollout of self-administered COVID-19 tests, which allow people who fear they may be asymptomatic carriers to test for the novel coronavirus…
Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group honors their healthcare professionals for National Hospital Week
Grays Harbor Community Hospital and Harbor Medical Group are proud to join healthcare organizations around the country in celebrating National Hospital Week…
UW Medicine launches trial of possible COVID-19 drug combo
UW Medicine researchers are launching a large-scale test of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin…
Dont delay necessary care, PeaceHealth urges
While the medical center and clinics are not easing current practices related to safety and security that were implemented during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, physicians and leaders at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center and PeaceHealth Medical…
UW Medicine employees demonstrate for increased COVID-19 protection
Dozens of University of Washington medical professionals demonstrated outside Harborview Medical Center calling for safer working conditions…
PeaceHealth Family Medicine Clinic has reopened
The PeaceHealth Family Medicine Clinic at 505 NE 87th Ave., in Vancouver, which temporarily closed in early April, has reopened…
Guest column: Samaritan Healthcare responding to COVID-19
In early March, a team composed of doctors, leaders and clinical staff established the Respiratory Virus Evaluation Center (RVEC) at the Samaritan Clinic on Pioneer Way…
No new Cowlitz COVID-19 cases; PeaceHealth expands testing
PeaceHealth is now offering COVID-19 testing at some local clinics for patients scheduled for procedures at St. John Medical Center and for certain patients with symptoms of the virus…
Dr. Peter Rutherford, Confluence Health CEO: We are all in this together
Since we first heard the term “COVID,” saw the effects of the coronavirus in Asia, then witnessed the impacts to North Central Washington as it moved to our shores and into our communities, all our lives are certainly different…
Number of COVID-19 patients drops by half at UW Medicine facilities
The number of patients undergoing treatment for COVID-19 in UW Medicine’s four hospitals has dropped to about half the level seen at the peak of the outbreak…
