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.
Republicans in Congress want to aggressively cut the budget, and health care leaders fear they will trim Medicaid — which could devastate rural hospitals.
Naval Hospital Bremerton offers fewer services than it did just a few years ago, forcing many patients into the overburdened civilian system.
TMS therapy uses magnetic pulses to stimulate nerve cells in regions of the brain that typically have decreased activity when a patient has depression.
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.
