hospitals

DOH spent over $475 million on personal protection equipment (PPE)

PeaceHealth Hospital network will be refunding $13.4 million to 15,000 patients.

229 workers will be laid off, including several managers

  For years, WA State required all health agencies, including birth hospitals, to report to DOH all babies who were exposed to drug or alcohol use, as the DOH called it, substance-exposed infants. Now that rule has gone away. WA State Department of Children, Youth and Families adopts new procedures The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) now has issued new guidelines for dealing wit

A bill that popped up in the Washington State Senate last week illustrates how the recent State Supreme Court ruling on the capital gains tax has opened the door for other similar 'excise' taxes. Two Democrat Senators pushing hospita...

Oregon Nurses Association sues parent company over what they call wage theft

(Seattle, WA)  --  Washington state hospitals are struggling financially.  According to the latest financial survey, hospitals across the state lost nearly two-billion dollars in the first half of 2022.  The survey shows operating revenue increased by four-percent in the first six months of this year compared to 2021, but expenses went up by 11-percent over the same time period.  The Washington St

              Thursday (February 24) WA State Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced a lawsuit has been filed against 14 hospitals, including Kadlec and St. Marys in Walla Walla Suit claims hospitals failed to inform patients and offer charity financial care The suit says the following, in part: "Washington’s charity care law requires all hospitals — for-profit and non-profit, public and pri

Gov. Inslee, like he did in 2020, claims Washington state hospitals are overwhelmed, and has brought in National Guard to help with non-medical tasks. But what do the Health and Human Services numbers say?

A variety of facilities will now be open for indoor visits.