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UW Medicine CEO: Catholic collaboration will improve access to abortions in...
UW Medicine has been under fire for being the latest major hospital to affiliate with a Catholic health system. Washington state has had a great deal of general criticism of secular hospitals...
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Washington state pot-czar skeptical of marijuana entrepreneur’s national...
NOTE: This story was updated on Sunday, June 2 with a response from Jamen Shively. ---- Mark Kleiman, the so-called Washington state pot czar, called out Seattle-based marijuana entrepreneur Jamen...
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ACLU to Inslee: Put a moratorium on hospital mergers
The ACLU of Washington state is leading a call for Gov. Jay Inslee to enact a six-month moratorium on hospital mergers, citing the large number of affiliations between secular and Catholic health...
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Health exchange hiccup in Washington: small business out of luck
This story has been updated to clarify Premera's position. Small businesses in Washington state will have almost no options for buying employee health coverage through the state’s health exchange in...
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State health exchange awards $6M to community health groups
Washington state's health benefit exchange has announced the 10 organizations that will share $6 million in contracts to lead local groups that will help the public navigate the new health insurance...
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Washington Health Exchange CEO: 'We're a startup'
As CEO of the state’s Washington Health Benefit Exchange, Richard Onizuka is leading a first-of-its-kind effort to bring health coverage to hundreds of thousands of people around the state. The former...
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UW Medicine opens newest South Lake Union expansion
UW Medicine just opened the latest phase of its new South Lake Union research expansion this week. Check out the slide show at right to see some views of the new space. It’s the latest phase of a...
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No clear answers on how Washington will pay for health exchange
The legislative budget proposals of the last several days haven’t gotten Washington state any closer to answering a critical question for the state’s health benefit exchange: How are we going to pay...
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Brokers fear losing money in state health exchange
As the Washington state health exchange hurtles toward an Oct. 1 deadline, insurance brokers say they’ll lose money because of a seemingly minor detail in the website’s design. The problem: They say...
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Seattle City Attorney Holmes proposes private marijuana clubs, home delivery
Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes is asking the state Liquor Control Board to consider allowing private marijuana clubs and home-delivery services. But a liquor board spokesman says Holmes' suggestions...
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Washington can expect 30,000 new entrepreneurs under Obamacare
An estimated 30,000 people in Washington will start their own businesses in 2014, thanks to new freedom they will have under federal health reform. That's the premise of a report by the Robert Wood...
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UW Medicine recently opened the latest phase of its new South Lake Union research expansion in Seattle, a project that ultimately will add 900,000 square feet of research space to UW Medicine’s...
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End of gene patents isn't the end of innovation in biotech
Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision barring gene patents isn't a disaster for Seattle's biotechnology industry. The ruling still allows companies to patent synthetic DNA, which is most important for...
View ArticleSwedish/Edmonds plans hospital expansion
Swedish/Edmonds will expand its hospital campus in a $63.5 million project that will include a two-story building with an emergency department, an urgent care center and an outpatient diagnostic...
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Obamacare exchange navigators expected to earn $20-$48 per hour
Federal officials are recommending wages of between $20 and $48 per hour for the people who help the public navigate new health exchanges now taking shape across the country as part of Obamacare. The...
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The ins and outs of health reform, as seen by one Seattle expert
As a director in the health-care practice at West Monroe Partners, Tony Kong is clued in to the industry and where it’s going. Based in the consulting firm’s Seattle office, Kong has insight on changes...
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Seattle-based Emeritus at the center of assisted living debate
Marjorie called down to the front desk of her retirement home roughly every 2-5 minutes, all day, every day. She could never remember that she had just called, but each time her voice was filled with...
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Will employers really cut hours to avoid paying for employees’ health insurance?
One of the most pressing questions of health care reform is whether some employers will make an effort to avoid providing health insurance to employees as required under the Affordable Care Act. Much...
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More physician assistants allowed to work in Washington under new law
A new state law that took effect this week in Washington allows more physician assistants to work with doctors. The change could help mitigate the shortage of primary care providers that’s anticipated...
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Calculate how much hospital errors cost your business
A new calculator from Leapfrog Group could help businesses calculate how much money they’re losing to hospital errors. The Washington, D.C.-based hospital rating nonprofit used its hospital safety...
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