Health Care
Some Washington Officials Sound Alarm on New Trumpcare Executive Order
The states insurance commissioner said the presidents decision to immediately halt payments could likely lead to a collapse of health insurance markets nationwide.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order relating to the Affordable Care Act that immediately discontinues billions of dollars in payments key to the law. According to a statement from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the cost-sharing reductions (CSR) payments are being discontinued immediately through Trumps new order. This year, those…
Past Experience: Most Happy Fellers
Lewis County | 1920
At least thats the presumption, since these four loggers with the West Fork Logging Company in Lewis County were among the earliest beneficiaries of health insurance in Washington state. Three years prior, a group of loggers pooled earnings to create a fund to help each other and their families with medical needs arising from injury…
The 2017 Leaders in Health Care Awards: Judges’ Award
Honoree: Paul Ramsey, M.D.
Paul Ramsey, M.D. CEO, UW Medicine, Seattle Dr. Paul Ramsey begins most weekday mornings by rowing on Lake Union. On weekends, hes likely to do bike rides of 50 or 100 miles. These rituals daily journeys, if you will have helped prepare him for a 40-year-plus career in medicine and administration. I quickly learned that…
Telehealth ‘A Silver Lining’
Virtual medicine will become much more prevalent after the pandemic passes
Even before Covid-19 struck the United States, health care costs were skyrocketing and hospital finances were shaky. These facts placed both providers and patients on a collision course, which our current pandemic has amplified. In many parts of the country, the coronavirus has forced clinics and hospitals to slow or stop nonemergency services temporarily. Now…
Lessons From a Crisis
Telemedicine is here to stay and other observations from those on the front lines of the pandemic
Covid-19 has created four significant crises in health care, according to The New England Journal of Medicine: The loss of employer-sponsored insurance for millions of Americans; deep financial losses for medical providers; racial and ethnic disparities in the healthcare system; and a failure of the public health system to identify and control the spread of…
Urgent-Care Clinic Operator Zoom+Care Launches Coronavirus Self-Testing Pilot in Seattle
If the pilot is successful, it could lead to Zoom+Care offering coronavirus self-testing kits to patients across the Pacific Northwest
If the pilot is successful, it could lead to Zoom+Care offering coronavirus self-testing kits to patients across the Pacific Northwest
Walk-In Clinic Chain Zoom+Care Launches Virtual Health Care Service in Washington Ahead of Schedule
The new online health care service also will offer free coronavirus-risk assessments for patients in Washington and Oregon
Urgent-care center operator Zoom+Care has expanded its telehealth care service ChatCare to the greater Seattle market ahead of schedule in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in Washington. The ChatCare service, previously only available through Zoom+Cares Oregon clinics, offers online diagnosis, treatment and prescription-medication service for a range of common conditions, such as colds and…
Washington Health Care Systems Ban Together to Battle Climate Change
A group of the states leading health care organizations has formed an alliance to advocate for smart climate policies and regulations
A group of eight of Washingtons largest health systems have formed an alliance focused on helping to protect communities from the dire health impacts of climate change, such as more frequent heat waves, wildfires and the resulting poor air quality they create. The new alliance, called the Washington Health Care Climate Alliance, or the WA…
Work That has Meaning Reaps Benefits for Employees and Patients | Sponsored
Sponsored by Providence St. Joseph Health In health care more than most fields, investments in the potential of our talented workforce pay huge dividends, both for caregivers (our employees) and patients. Here at Providence St. Joseph Health, helping caregivers live their personal mission also speaks to our promise: “Know me, care for me, ease my way.”…
Nursing Home at Seattle’s Ida Culver House Broadview Laying Off 148 as Part of a Care-Model Transition
The facility is being converted into an assisted-living and memory-care community slated to reopen next year
Ida Culver House Broadview in Northwest Seattle plans to lay off 148 full- and part-time employees at the start of next year, according to a federal WARN Act notice. The layoffs are part of a plan to convert the skilled-nursing facilities at the retirement community to a new care model offering higher-level assisted-living and secured…