While we tend to think of the homeless as single men living on the street—because those are the homeless we see—55 percent of the homeless in King County are, in fact, families with children.
Medicaid expansion to cover more working poor. Funding to boost community health clinics. Incentives to encourage more to pursue primary care careers.
Project Homestead aims to help 15 low-income, “high-needs” homeless King County families find permanent homes.
Early genetic studies indicated that the gene was located at the end of chromosome 4. But where the gene was and how it became activated was a puzzle.
Participating hospitals voluntarily report their progress towards implementing these practices. Your hospital’s report is available online.
Battle over hospital beds in southeast King County. Researchers share data to find new Alzheimer’s treatments. A family’s struggle with Sanfilippo syndrome.
Seattle hospital’s first-in-the-nation program called “another important first in the field of infection control and prevention”.
The new healthcare reform law will extend health insurance to 34 million uninsured Americans, but what does it do to try to control costs?
Community services for vets with PTSD. Spinal fluid test predicts Alzheimer’s disease. Hospitals and nursing homes found to be shortchanging staff on overtime pay.
Program was inspired in part by the online multi-player game World of Warcraft.
How is it possible to expand health coverage to tens of millions of people through Medicaid, tax credits and subsidies and at the same time cut the deficit?
By other child well-being measures, Washington ranked lower but generally did well, ranking 11th in the nation overall.
In the news: driving under the influence of prescription drugs; federal funds boost community health clinics; and Whatcom County “super rice” goes global
Plans will be required to cover such preventive services as cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes testing, cancer screening and routine immunizations without additional charges, such as copayment.
U.K. expert panel found little change in alcohol consumptions or alcohol-related crime after the U.K. loosened its drinking hours.
Since May support climbs from 41 to 48 percent. Opposition falls from 44 to 41 percent. But 25 percent strongly opposed, and 27 percent want law repealed.
With an adult obesity rate of 26 percent, Washington now ranks as the 28th most obese state and is one of the 38 that have an adult obesity rate above 25 percent.
In a study comparing the health systems of seven countries–Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, U.K. and U.S.–the U.S. comes last, again.
Medicaid patients trapped in state’s hospitals. You may not have that food allergy you think you have. A White House plan to cut childhood obesity.
A public-private initiative has restored full funding to a Washington state program that has for years purchased vaccine for the state’s children.
“Direct care practices’” in which patients pay a monthly fee for primary care services may help cut health costs and attract more providers to primary care.
Mortality of rates for adult Americans are now worse than they are in all of Western Europe and even such low-income countries as Chile, Tunisia and Albania.
The approval will allow the 250-bed hospital to add 350 additional beds and laboratory facilities over the next 20 years.
Group Health achieved a score of 744 on a 1,000-point scale, Providence Health Plan came in a close second with 739. Kaiser Family Foundation Health Plan was third with a score of 724.
Profile: Institute for Systems biology. Working parents spending more time with families. E.J. Dionne on attempts to overturn health law.
The Stranger joins in the debate over whether Attorney General Rob McKenna made the right decision to join in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the new health-care reform law.
Cabinet will put in place policies needed to carry out health reform statewide and identify all opportunities for the state to receive federal funds under the new law.
Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center is “Twittering” a robotic-assisted surgery, describing the case step-by-step.
Most had cancer and expressed concerns over loss of autonomy and dignity at the end of life.
“Republican and Democratic approaches to health care have more in common than most people think . . . But there were also important areas of disagreement.”
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
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