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PenMet Parks’ proposed 2025 operating and capital budgets illustrate a transition from building the Community Recreation Center to operating it. Contractors broke ground on the $31.6 million facility in August 2023 with completion expected 13 months thereafter. Supply chain issues pushed the opening date to spring 2025. However, progress on the 58,000-square-foot indoor center helped
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St. Anthony Hospital has a new option for chemotherapy patients who are approved to use cold capping during their treatment, which reduces the alopecia side effect of the drugs. Two months ago the hospital received its first cold capping machine, which is available to patients of the outpatient clinic who choose to use it. “The
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Less than 20% of Washingtonians got an updated COVID vaccine last year, Washington Department of Health says.
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Reader warning: This article contains discussion of suicide, suicidal ideation, eating disorders, and self-harm. Heather Arneson is the artist behind LIVEeachmoment Art, a small, mental health-focused art business Arneson opened in 2020. Arneson has struggled with her mental health for more than 15 years, and this decade-and-a-half’s worth of personal experience informs her work. In
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South Kitsap County would be even more of a food desert if the merger and resulting divestment goes forward, commissioners warn.
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When evaluating a nursing home, it also helps to show up unannounced and talk to staff members.
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Pierce County, Peninsula School District and Gig Harbor officials are hosting a town hall at the city’s civic center next month to discuss the local impacts of the fentanyl crisis. Fentanyl is having devastating impacts on our communities and affecting people across the economic spectrum, Pierce County Councilmember Robyn Denson said in a statement announcing
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Childhood cancer is rare. But Karen Caywood of Gig Harbor knows that it doesn’t seem that way when a doctor informs a parent their child has been diagnosed. “Once you’re told that your child has childhood cancer, it’s not rare anymore. It’s infuriating, and feels so dismissive to be told that it’s rare,” she said.
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Epidemiologists with the Kitsap Public Health District have co-authored a new report documenting the first recorded case of a human contracting the infectious disease tularemia from a marine mammal. The finding, published last month in the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality weekly report, details how a 32-year-old wildlife biologist from Kitsap County contracted
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“By 2040, almost a quarter of the U.S. population will be age 65 or older,” according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This demographic shift will impact the economy, healthcare and community dynamics. Now is the time to prioritize health and wellness to increase your chances of aging healthily and maintaining independence
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