Directive 25-01 instructs the Washington State Department of Health to adopt rules related to emergency abortion care at hospitals. The rules must do two things: First, the rules must ban ...

HELENA - The Missoula-based Choices Bank has merged with the state's online advance health care directive service to create a single registry for Montana citizens. The merger was announced ...

Contract negotiations between the health care giant and workers in the state have been ongoing since the spring. Roughly 3,000 workers across 36 sites in Washington voted overwhelmingly this week ...

“Washington is and will remain a sanctuary for any person seeking abortion care and services in our state, but we must act to protect our rights and our values,” the directive Inslee issued read.

Three women and two doctors are suing Kansas over a law that nullifies a person’s decisions about end-of-life care if they are pregnant in what appears to be the first such lawsuit since the ...

Washington state will be unaffected by whatever ... “Abortion care is health care,” reads Inslee’s directive. “For decades, practicing health care providers and other medical experts ...

Washington Governor Jay Inslee issued a directive on Tuesday requiring the Department of Health to affirm ... providing emergency abortion care. The Washington State Hospital Association responded ...

A living will is an advance directive that conveys ... a living will and override a health care proxy if you regain the ability to make decisions. Download your state’s living will template ...

The Washington state legislature is poised to make decisions that have serious consequences for access to health care for state employees and everyone living in South Puget Sound. Budget and tax ...

Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero Washington began to offer Medicaid-like health care coverage last year for thousands of low-income immigrants living in the state without legal status. Now, with talks ...

A pilot program in Washington state aims ... to abortion care, especially if they live in rural areas, are struggling financially or don’t have easy access to reproductive health care, Beth ...

There’s a single physician at the Indian Health Service clinic that serves a population of more than 5,000 in northeastern Washington ... quality of care in your particular state is — without ...