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WA opens health insurance exchange to undocumented immigrants

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WA students can now take excused mental health days Crosscut

WebWith reports of increased levels of stress and anxiety among Washington youth, schools are treating mental health absences similarly to sick days.

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Wildfire smoke health effects Crosscut

WebWildfires are growing in frequency and intensity, threatening our landscape, our lifestyle and our health. The six-part series from Investigate West, “Smoky Skies, Altered Lives” …

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A new book puts homelessness at the center of Seattle history

WebReleased in August, Skid Road: On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City details the trauma experienced by poor and …

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Washington state buys shuttered psychiatric hospital in Tukwila

WebCascade Behavioral Health’s parent company closed the 137-bed facility last month. Now the state hopes the acquisition will expand treatment options.

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The persistent disparities in accessing WA health care

WebWhen the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion went into effect in 2014, it dramatically increased the number of insured Washingtonians. Yet low-income folks, especially …

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Students lobby for WA bills on abortion and gender-affirming care

WebYoung activists visited Olympia to back the expansion of health-care access, including bills to shield providers and patients from out-of-state prosecution.

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To fix a nursing shortage, WA needs new ways of training Opinion

WebA collaborative union-employer program helps hospitals, patients and those who hope to serve them as nurses.

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A new owner looks to restore Yakima's last major hospital

WebTacoma-based MultiCare hopes to fund Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital services that are currently unavailable, including open-heart surgery.

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Our Healthcare System is Sick Crosscut

WebThe COVID-19 pandemic Is breaking the U.S. health care system — but that’s only a symptom of the underlying disease.

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Pandemic and politics drive mass exodus of WA public health …

WebEmail threats, irate officials and dealing with misinformation have become part of the job for stress-filled public health workers.

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Meet the Anthony Fauci of 1918 Washington Crosscut

WebDr. T.D. Tuttle was Washington's Health Commissioner during the 1918 flu. He wasn't always popular — even when he was right.

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'We're literally invisible': How better data could help advocates for

WebDora Joe enters the information of a missing relative into the Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) with the help of Urban …

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Climate change takes a toll on Seattleites' mental health

WebSome residents are experiencing a new kind of distress in response to flooding, air pollution and other ecological events linked to climate change.

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New Yakima clinic to expand abortion access in Eastern Washington

WebThe clinic is expected to help accommodate the influx of people who will need Washington abortion services if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Why our public memory is key to post-pandemic recovery

WebTwo Northwest scholars on what the history of the 1918 flu can teach us about our return to normal today.

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Public health cynics hated pandemic interventions in 1918, too

WebWashington’s top doctors tried to combat opponents of government regulation with arguments that resonate 100 years later.

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U.S. mishandling of COVID echoes the 20th century eugenics …

WebOver the past nine months, I have written about some of the parallels between the 1918-20 influenza pandemic and today’s coronavirus outbreak: opposition to masks, …

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A third candidate launches bid for Congress in WA 6th District

WebKate Dean, a Jefferson County Commissioner, is one of the Democratic candidates running to replace U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, D-WA 6, who announced he will …

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