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Reimbursement rates are down, Medicaid funding is in question and recent state budget changes could hurt hospitals’ bottom lines.
Read More about Hospitals’ financial outlook improves, but local health care industry still operating in the red
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 about About 50 students at Discovery Elementary sick in suspected norovirus outbreak
The expanded partnership will reduce the amount of travel for patients and eliminate barriers to quality care, the company said.
Read More about St. Anthony owner expands partnership with Seattle Children’s Hospital
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 about Joel’s Law advocates seek expansion of law governing involuntary mental health treatment
Construction should begin within two weeks on two synthetic-turfed, lighted fields and be completed by December.
Read More about YMCA, city break ground on playing fields at new sports complex
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 about Gig Harbor mom, gymnastics coach recovering from ruptured brain aneurysm
A soft opening will occur in June, along with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on June 17 and grand opening celebration on June 21.
Read More about PenMet recreation center opening July 1
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, which owns both hospitals on the Kitsap Peninsula, is bracing for the fallout from Washington’s multi-billion dollar budget deficit and the impacts it could have across its network of Puget Sound hospitals. State hospitals have lost millions of dollars and struggled to regain profitability since the pandemic. Now, they estimate they
Read More about State’s solution to its budget deficit could cost hospitals millions of dollars
The legislation, awaiting Gov. Bob Ferguson’s signature, requires insurance companies to follow transparent criteria when making determinations about mental health and substance abuse treatments.
Read More about Bill would make it harder for insurance companies to deny mental health treatment
Republicans in Congress want to aggressively cut the budget, and health care leaders fear they will trim Medicaid — which could devastate rural hospitals.
Read More about Hospitals wary of potential cuts to Medicaid