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If your hospital is planning any activities for International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD), we would like to be able to showcase your work in a future WSHA Weekly article. If you are interested in sharing your plans for IOAD, please contact Brittany Weiner, Assistant Director of Behavioral Health... Read More >>

Join us for “The Impact of Long COVID on Behavioral Health” on Wednesday, August 23, 10-11:30 a.m., as we hear from Janna Friedly, MD, MPH, and Tracy Herring, PhD, from UW Medicine’s Post-COVID Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic. Register here.... Read More >>

All hospitals in WA are working to improve collection of patient demographic data, a new reporting requirement detailed in RCW 43.70.052(6) and WAC 246-455-025.... Read More >>

Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest (HCPNW) is excited to offer one final Teacher Training for the Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG).... Read More >>

WSHA is preparing enhancements to the Hospital Readmissions Dashboard. The WSHA Readmissions Dashboard is designed to help our members quickly identify potential areas for improvement and track the progress of their interventions as well as to allow hospitals to compare themselves to similar facilities.... Read More >>

WSHA, a WA State Opioid and Overdose Program key stakeholder, has engaged clinical quality subject matter expertise to support our hospitals and provide the Opioid Stewardship Summer Learning Series.... Read More >>

Join us for “The Impact of Long COVID on Behavioral Health” on Wednesday, Aug. 23, from 10-11:30 a.m. as we hear from Janna Friedly, M.D., M.P.H., and Tracy Herring, Ph.D., from UW Medicine’s Post-COVID Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic. Register here.... Read More >>

WSHA has identified opportunities to support reducing acute opioid prescribing in rural and urban communities.... Read More >>

WSHA awarded Columbia County Health System and Ocean Beach Hospital & Medical Clinics with our annual Rural Quality Everyday Extraordinary Award at the Rural Hospital Leadership Conference in Chelan this June.... Read More >>

The participating hospitals worked on quality improvement projects and submitted data on up to 14 quality improvement measures... Read More >>