Health & Wellness Sponsor
Health and Wellness stories are made possible in part by Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, a proud sponsor of Gig Harbor Now.
Washington public health departments will see a slight reduction in state funding for basic services over the next two years, but the severity and local impacts of that loss on the Kitsap Peninsula remains unclear. State legislators reduced spending on Foundational Public Health Services by $24 million over the 2025-2027 budget. Those funds sustain essential
Read More
An EPA grant to the Pierce County health district was eliminated, while the federal Forest Service endured thousands of layoffs.
Read More
Gig Harbor police and firefighters competed to see who would give the most blood during the annual Battle of the Badges on Monday.
Read More
Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities, is a critical revenue source for all hospitals.
Read More
Reimbursement rates are down, Medicaid funding is in question and recent state budget changes could hurt hospitals’ bottom lines.
Read More
About 50 students at Discovery Elementary School are sick in what the Tacoma-Pierce County Health District believes is an outbreak of norovirus. A Peninsula School District statement said school administrators identified a possible problem on Thursday, May 8. By Friday, 50 students were absent or went home early. Norovirus is a highly contagious disease that
Read More
The expanded partnership will reduce the amount of travel for patients and eliminate barriers to quality care, the company said.
Read More
The parents of the man for whom Joel’s Law is named want it to allow friends to ask a judge to require involuntary treatment.
Read More
Construction should begin within two weeks on two synthetic-turfed, lighted fields and be completed by December.
Read More
Aimee Hentschell, a single mother of three who coaches at a private gym in Kent, is doing well but faces a long road to full recovery.
Read More