Protect Patient Safety & Access

We have an operating room, used primarily for emergency surgeries, and we used to have a labor and delivery unit. We closed that unit indefinitely a few months ago due to staffing shortages. (SB…

We have a lot of concerns on (SB 5236’s) effects on access to services and significant unintended consequences – the unintended consequences for patients. We think it will cause a combination rigid staffing ratios…

Over the past week, for example, multiple hospitals in the state are already operating at over 100% capacity. Just today in Western Washington, over 400 patients are boarded in emergency departments who have been…

When emergency departments have an influx of patients and they don’t have the staff to care for them, they do what’s called “wall time,” and the EMS staff stay with the patient until the…

According to the Washington State Department of Health, Native American women specifically have over double the amount of pregnancies associated with maternal mortality rates than any other race. If you don’t know, Eastern Washington…

“We share the unions’ and [legislators’] concern about the workforce shortage. We just know that California-style ratios are not the solution. We know that because ratios have not solved the workforce shortage in California.”