The hard math comes as Washington’s community health clinics worry about an inequitable response to the pandemic.
When Gov. Jay Inslee closed Washington’s schools March 13, all 15 of Neighborcare Health’s school-based clinics shuttered along with them. In an instant, the more than 3,000 patient visits the community health clinic expected for the month evaporated. A week later, Inslee announced a ban on nonemergency dental procedures. As a result, Neighborcare, which has eight dental clinics in the region, estimates it will lose 90% of those locations’ 9,000 monthly visits as well. Continue reading at Crosscut. (Matt M. McKnight)
Gov. Inslee asks industries to shift to wartime-style medical gear production
Washington still has a long ways to go in fighting the coronavirus outbreak. Now, more businesses are being asked to step up to help. KUOW’s Paige Browning brings us up to speed on the latest. Continue reading at KUOW. (Rawpixel)
A look inside the Army field hospital at CenturyLink Field, designed to help medical centers swamped by coronavirus patients
You’ve never seen anything like it. Inside the cavernous CenturyLink Field Event Center, an exhibition space that would normally play host to home, RV and dog shows, hundreds of U.S. Army soldiers are hustling to erect an emergency, 250-bed field hospital to handle a potential overflow of non-COVID-19 patients from area medical centers that could soon be overwhelmed amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Amanda Snyder)
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