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  For years, WA State required all health agencies, including birth hospitals, to report to DOH all babies who were exposed to drug or alcohol use, as the DOH called it, substance-exposed infants. Now that rule has gone away. WA State Department of Children, Youth and Families adopts new procedures The Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) now has issued new guidelines for dealing wit

The City of Yakima released a statement Friday saying their hospitals are exceeding capacity and had patients waiting for bed space. In addition, over the past week they have also had critical staffing shortages. According to the city, there were 61 COVID-19 positive individuals hospitalized as of Friday, the highest they've seen ...

Hospitals and medical clinics have been seeing a decline in patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, but with the Governor allowing facilities to do some elective surgery again, Dr. Malcolm Butler, Chief Medical Officer for CVCH, says if you're sick, come in and get it checked out ...

Representative Dan Newhouse plans to reintroduce a bill this week to hold Veterans Administration hospitals accountable after what Newhouse calls mismanagement and mistreatment of veterans. It's identical to legislation that was introduced last year and passed by the House but not the Senate...