KUOW Newsroom 'Safe' hospital staffing and limiting emergency powers: Week two of the 2022 legislative session Washington state lawmakers are working fast this session to correct the record on a number of issue including the state’s plan to fund long-term care and executive emergency powers.
KUOW Newsroom As WA lawmakers consider a safe staffing bill, nurses warn of crisis conditions and risks to patients 'It's really important that we do have this safe staffing standard because adding more patients to the nurse's workload is literally hurting patients every single day. It's not good for them.'
KUOW Newsroom 'The worst' it's been: Covid hospitalizations reach all-time high in Washington state Since the highly-infectious omicron variant was discovered in Washington state last month, health officials have warned that a surge in cases could cause hospitals to become severely overwhelmed. Health care workers say that moment is now here.
Global wishes for 2022: a gift box for everyone, greater girl power, vertical gardens We asked global thinkers like Malala, doctors dealing with the pandemic, educators and more — if you were in charge of the world, what would you like to see happen this year.
Intimate portraits of a hospital COVID unit from a photojournalist-turned-nurse Alan Hawes hopes his photos of health care workers and COVID patients will show the toll of this pandemic — and persuade the unvaccinated to get their COVID shots.
'Bursting at the seams.’ WA hospitals feel the pinch of long-term care shortages Staffing shortages in places like skilled nursing homes and assisted living facilities, along with complex evaluation and placement protocols, are driving a surge in long-term care patients at Washington state hospitals.
KUOW Newsroom ‘The situation is dangerous.’ Parents sound alarm over troubled in-home care provider Mysterious bruises. An unreported burn. Two vulnerable clients left alone overnight. These are just some of the complaints that families are leveling against Aacres WA — a troubled residential care provider that gets tens of millions of dollars a year from the state to care for people with developmental disabilities. Now state officials say they’re investigating.
KUOW Newsroom Inslee offers support for temporary delay in new payroll tax for long-term care program Washington Governor Jay Inslee says he would support a short-term delay in the implementation of a new payroll tax on workers. That tax is scheduled to take effect in January. It will fund a first-in-the-nation long-term care insurance program called WA Cares. Concerns have been raised about details of how the program will work.
Week In Review Flooding, COVID-19, and Thanksgiving preparation, this week. Bill Radke reviews the week's news with Northwest News Network and KUOW correspondent Anna King, Freelance Science Reporter Jane C Hu and The Stranger staff writer Jas Keimig.
Week In Review The election, school closures, and mascots, this week Bill Radke discusses the week's news with Washington State Wire CEO and publisher D.J. Wilson, The Everett Herald Young Cities reporter Isabella Breda, and Crosscut city politics reporter David Kroman.
