HB 2242 is designed to maintain access to preventive services without cost-sharing for Washington residents who choose to use them ...

The Washington State Department of Health reports that cases of influenza have increased significantly since the start of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The United States Department of Health and Human Services has reached a settlement with a Washington state nonprofit after being accused of unlawfully deleting public health ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Governor Bob Ferguson announced the state has applied for the federal Rural Health Transformation Program, proposing a bipartisan plan to invest $1 billion across five ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) made its own official recommendation that everyone 6 months and older get the COVID-19 vaccine. This recommendation is majorly expanded ...

Last fall, Washington and other Western states issued their own vaccine recommendations in a sharp rejection of federal policy that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended.

Health care services for rural residents in northeast Washington will expand under a new project. NEW Health has announced ...

The Health Care Authority (HCA) and Department of Health (DOH) are equipping health care providers and emergency medical services (EMS) personnel with practical, research-based resources to expand ...

OLYMPIA — The State of Washington has submitted an application for $1 billion in federal funding to transform rural health care across the state's 29 rural counties over the next five years. Governor ...

WASHINGTON — Washington state health care leaders have outlined their plans for utilizing new federal rural health funding from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Leaders have ...

For months, health care officials and voters urged U.S. Reps. Dan Newhouse, R-WA-04, and Michael Baumgartner, R-WA-05, to vote against House Resolution 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act ...

Washington state was awarded over $181 million last week through a new federal program aimed at improving health care in rural communities, which state leaders argue will be helpful but ultimately ...