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Hospital Advocacy Day is a week away!

This is a critical opportunity for hospital leaders to meet face-to-face with lawmakers and share the real impact of hospital policies on patients and communities.... Read More >>

L&I survey: Help meet your needs for health care labor information

The Healthcare Labor Standards (HLS) Program wants your feedback to improve communications around mandatory overtime and meal and rest break requirements.... Read More >>

WSHA, WSPA partner to advocate for common sense changes to prepackaged emergency medications rules

The associations have partnered to advocate for a pair of bills that would modify rules limiting prepackaged medications that are distributed from hospital emergency departments and health care entities, such as some urgent cares... Read More >>

OCR Updates to the HIPAA Privacy Rule with Respect to Reproductive Health Records

To: Hospital Legal Counsel, Compliance Officers, Chief Privacy Officers, and Government Affairs Leaders  Staff Contact: Cara Helmer, Policy Director, Legal Affairs carah@wsha.org | (206) 577-1827  bnSubject: OCR Updates to the... Read More >>

Inside Olympia: RNEP, PEBB/SEBB, others up for hearings

Four high-priority topics are up for hearings this week, including the Rural Nursing Education Program, and Public Employee’s Benefits Board and School Employees Benefits Board (PEBB/SEBB) carrier contracting... Read More >>

Immigration actions at Washington State hospitals

Washington State hospitals are places of healing. Hospitals in our state care for everyone regardless of who they are or why they need care. Hospitals will strive to remain safe and accessible to all Washington residents, regardless of immigration or citizenship status... Read More >>

WSHA joins Senate Health & Long Term Care Committee for work session

WSHA joined a work session with the Senate Health & Long Term Care Committee, which focused on hospitals, primary care and long-term care.... Read More >>

Faster, smarter licensing for health professionals is around the corner

HELMS is intended to improve the user experience by streamlining processing, strengthening data access and reducing paper-based activities.... Read More >>

Reminder: Mandatory overtime protections expanded for some health care workers

More health care workers receive overtime protections as of Jan. 1.... Read More >>

Inside Olympia: Emergency medications for discharge gets hearing

WSHA’s first proactive bills, concerning prepacked medication dispensing from the ED and urgent care facilities, are up for their first hearings this week... Read More >>

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