A Virginia Mason Franciscan Health grant will help boost access to a YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap program that improves health for people facing diabetes, arthritis and other chronic illnesses.
Gov. Bob Ferguson wants to steer savings from the Medicaid pharmacy benefit into the general fund. This provider currently uses that money to pay for mobile health clinics.
An overwhelming majority of students entering kindergarten on the Kitsap Peninsula are vaccinated against measles, state data shows. But immunization rates here and across the state remain below where they were before the pandemic. Students out of compliance — meaning they were neither vaccinated nor received an approved exemption — also rose among kindergarten classes
Virginia Mason Franciscan says the hybrid emergency room, or dual purpose medical facility, is the first of its kind in the state.
The Pierce County Health District and reports no impacts, so far, from the flurry of executive orders coming out of Washington, D.C.
The hospital’s Internal Medicine Clinic had just one physician for 2,200 patients. Transferring them to civilian care will further stress an already overburdened system.
J-PAL North America will help Pierce County test a mobile opioid outreach program and study how long addicts should remain in rehab centers.
Getting a reliable count of people experiencing homelessness is difficult anywhere. On the Gig Harbor-Key Peninsula, it is even more arduous.
Corrections officers die by suicide at higher rates than police, yet have largely been excluded from expansions in mental health treatment for first responders.
A Washington State Hospitals Association spokesman said demands from immigration agents alone are not sufficient to gain access to patients or restricted areas.
