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The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) is partnering with Birdseye medical to expand the Washington telehealth program for community-based COVID-19 services for patients who can’t access in-person care or are uninsured.... Read More >>
LeadingAge Washington has shared with us that the REDi Healthcare Coalition, the Healthcare Alliance and several hospital systems are alerting that some long-term care (LTC) facilities are refusing to admit patients from the hospital if the patient is COVID positive or had a COVID exposure and has not quarantined for the full length of time prior to initiating discharge to LTC.... Read More >>
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final rule on July 6, 2022, for hospital interpretative guidance for infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship programs.... Read More >>
Paxlovid Emergency Use Authorization (EUA): The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) are alerting providers to changes to the EUA for Paxlovid, most recently updated July 6, 2022.... Read More >>
Hospital and health care staff are invited to join WSHA for a free 4-hout virtual training on Health Equity & Targeted Universalism: Using Data and Co-Creation to Develop Targeted Strategies that Achieve a Universal Goal, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on July 12, 2022.... Read More >>
Paxlovid Emergency Use Authorization (EUA): The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) are alerting providers to changes to the EUA for Paxlovid, most recently updated July 6, 2022.... Read More >>
WSHA is a committed partner in the Washington State Opioid Response Plan and is collaborating with the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) to support hospitals and their communities in opioid stewardship.... 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 >>
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 >>