On Aug. 31, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) amended the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine to authorize bivalent formulations of the vaccines for use as a single booster dose at least two months following primary or booster vaccination... Read More >>
September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and WSHA will spend the month sharing resources and stories about how our member hospitals are spreading awareness of the condition... Read More >>
WSHA and the Association of Public Hospital Districts (AWPHD) will host a three-part webinar series between September and November to support rural hospitals that serve patients with substance use disorders... Read More >>
WSHA will host a DELTA Day Oct. 10, 2022 and ACCELERATE webinars Sept. 26, 2022 (a pre-DELTA Day prep webinar); Nov. 14, 2022; Dec. 12, 2022; and Jan. 9, 2023 on environmental cleaning and infection prevention... Read More >>
To increase access to potentially life-saving medication to treat COVID-19, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and its partners have launched a new telehealth option for patients... Read More >>
LeadingAge Washington has shared with us that the REDi Healthcare Coalition, the Healthcare Alliance and several hospital systems are alerting that some long-term care (LTC) facilities are refusing to admit patients from the hospital if the patient is COVID positive or had a COVID exposure and has not quarantined for the full length of time prior to initiating discharge to LTC.... Read More >>
All health care providers know the challenge of health-care-acquired infections (HAIs), especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of the HAI improvements from before the pandemic were lost because of it... Read More >>
Therapeutic inventory reporting in the Health Partner Ordering Portal (HPOP) is now required on Mondays and Thursdays by 11:59 p.m. The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) shared instructions to assist providers in updating administered and available treatment courses... Read More >>
The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has stated that Paxlovid should be considered for all high-risk COVID-19 patients. The drug is in ample supply in Washington State and is available in 700 sites... Read More >>
Register today for the Pacific Northwest Sepsis Conference! We have room for both in-person and virtual attendees and are offering both CME and continuing education credits for nurses. ... Read More >>
