New long-term care program will offer families crucial support at tough times
You don’t need a medical degree to understand that accessing care when you need it, in the comfort of your home, is essential to our well-being. Our first statewide long-term care program will help make this possible and at such a low cost. The program is finally here and it’s time to celebrate. As a family doctor, I know the need for care often comes without warning, at any age, often upending the lives of my patients and their families. A slip down the stairs, recovery from surgery, or a diagnosis of a progressively debilitating disease like multiple sclerosis can mean we need help dressing, bathing, getting around, and managing meals and medication. When this need for care is longer than a couple of weeks, it can be an enormous strain on our families. Continue reading at Washington State Standard. (Getty Images)
Seattle police chief says mock headstone, Trump flag undermined public trust
Seattle police Chief Adrian Diaz on Tuesday acknowledged his department caused community “mistrust” and “trauma” with the revelation that officers kept a mock tombstone of a young Black man killed by police in an East Precinct break room, along with a Trump campaign flag and other troubling keepsakes. Diaz appeared online before the city’s Community Police Commission, whose members had asked the chief to explain the items, which were seen on body-camera video turned over in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the city’s graffiti laws. Continue reading at The Seattle Times. (Courtesy McDonald Hoague & Bayless Law Firm)
Prior authorization, by any other name, threatens Washingtonians’ health
As tens of millions of Americans struggle with gastrointestinal diseases such as colorectal cancer and ulcerative colitis, health insurance company UnitedHealthcare (UHC) is making life more challenging for its more than 27 million commercial beneficiaries. Through a series of ill-informed policy moves, UHC is laying the groundwork to delay patients’ time-sensitive upper endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures, increasing the risk of deferred care and disease progression. Continue reading at The Olympian. (Dr. Barbara Jung)
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