When Seattle Children’s Hospital reopened its operating rooms after a cluster of Aspergillus infections, it relied on air testing to alert it to the presence...
The Washington state Health Care Authority has the power to audit doctors and facilities that receive Medicaid funds, and restrict them from the taxpayer-funded program...
The Washington state Department of Health is asking lawmakers for stronger enforcement power over private psychiatric hospitals after a Seattle Times investigation found that the...
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A Times analysis of state data shows hundreds of Aspergillus infections at the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle Children’s, and other hospitals, but health...
Seattle Children's Hospital has struggled with infections from Aspergillus mold since the early 2000s, but did not link them to its air-handling systems during a...
As Seattle Children's CEO acknowledges the hospital's failure to connect previous illnesses to an ongoing mold problem, a 2002 lawsuit alleging a patient was disabled...
Seattle Children's hospital is closing all operating rooms on its Seattle campus for at least five days in an effort to get a handle on...
A health system in Massachusetts ended its plans to operate a new psychiatric hospital there with US HealthVest, a company specializing in mental-health care whose...