At Swedish Medical Center’s Cherry Hill hospital, the “EMERGENCY” sign glows bright in the dusk above the emergency-room entrance. Some 18,000 people sought help here last year. Right next to the sign, there’s another one on the building: “After-Hours Clinic.” Operated by Country Doctor Community Health Centers, this clinic — like Swedish’s ER — is […]
Critics say that Washington state’s rejection of individual health-insurance plans from five companies that applied to sell inside the newly created exchange marketplace will limit consumer choices and hurt continuity of care for those with low i...
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
At the headquarters of Public Health — Seattle & King County in downtown Seattle, those leading the county’s effort to get people to sign up for insurance under the new federal health-care law are conspiring around a table. Chris B...