Recent member news: 9/9/2021

September 9, 2021

Eastern State Hospital steps up during pandemic
Eastern State Hospital, in Medical Lake, has been recognized by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for setting up separate wards for quarantined patients and COVID-positive patients…

St. Luke’s launches physiatry residency program
Providence St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Medical Center has established its first cohort of a new physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program…

COVID-19 hospitalizations remain high in Whatcom County
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center says they were caring for 37 people suffering from COVID as of Tuesday…

State’s hospitals warn stroke, appendicitis patients seeing delayed care
“If you come in with a stroke, if you come in with a cardiac event, there is not a bed out there for you,” said Julie Petersen, CEO of Kittitas Valley Healthcare in Ellensburg at a Washington State Hospital Association briefing on Tuesday…

What does Idaho’s ‘Crisis Standards of Care’ mean for Washington hospitals?
As Washington hospitals approach capacity, patients from Idaho could be transferred in, but Washington is under no obligation to take them…

Washington scrambles to keep state out of crisis care levels
Health leaders don’t want to have to start rationing care like North Idaho…

‘A lot of these people are not going to make it,’ official warns as Washington COVID hospitalizations continue rising
At a news briefing Tuesday morning, Washington State Hospital Association CEO Cassie Sauer said that after the weekend, hospital officials counted 1,674 Washingtonians hospitalized with the virus, a 7% increase from last week…

COVID-19 hospitalization count sets new, pandemic record
Forty-nine people were hospitalized at Central Washington Hospital as of Tuesday due to COVID-19, a new all-time pandemic record…

PRH opens new general surgical practice
Pullman Regional Hospital’s Clinic Network opened its new Pullman Surgical Associates practice last week, located in Suite 130 of the hospital...

Washington hospitals see 34% weekly increase in patients needing ventilators amid COVID-19 crisis
WSHA president Cassie Sauer was joined by Harborview Medical Center obstetrics specialist Dr. Linda Eckert, Kittitas Valley Healthcare CEO Julie Petersen, and Providence Health Care COO Peg Currie…

PeaceHealth St. Joseph still seeing high number of COVID patients
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center says they continue to see a high number of patients suffering from COVID-19…

After Swedish clinic closure, effort underway to draw health care provider to Bainbridge
An effort is underway to recruit a new health care provider to serve Bainbridge Island and fill a large hole left when Swedish Medical Group shut down its Winslow clinic earlier this summer…

Island Hospital to host community briefing on COVID-19
Island Hospital will host a virtual community briefing Thursday, September 9 at 5:30 p.m. on the current state of COVID-19 in our region…

Jefferson Healthcare announces new lab director
Jacob D. Stokes has joined Jefferson Healthcare as the organization’s new director of laboratory services…

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