Republican Dan Newhouse is pressing the federal agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid to make it easier for hospitals located on tribal lands, including one in Toppenish, to achieve a federal status that will provide higher reimbursement for federally-supported care.
Washington marked a milestone Aug. 28 with the final structural beam placed on a new psychiatric facility on the Western State Hospital campus in Pierce County. A few yards away, on the other side of a 6-foot chain-link fence, a different group of workers was not there to celebrate. The handful of state employees loudly chanted their displeasure with the progress of talks on a collective bargaining agreement with negotiators from Ferguson’s budget office.
A small, flowering corner of Kadlec offers a place of refuge for staff entrenched in hospital work or family members anxiously awaiting updates on their loved ones’ health, and it’s maintained thanks to a group of dedicated volunteers.
Many physicians are increasingly burned out and looking to leave medicine and its largely because of the corporatization of healthcare, according to a recent survey.
The largest source of health coverage for Americans is about to get even more expensive and that could lead to fewer people even having access to it, according to one recent analysis
An addiction treatment clinic that first launched in Kennewick more than a decade ago has grown to 80 locations across nine states, and in 2025, treated more than 7,000 patients in Washington.
From the Marines to financial services to the dentist's chair, this dentist said every chapter of his career prepared him for what he now considers his calling – the work he's been doing at his own Pasco practice.
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