Reporter Megan Burbank spoke with former nurses who, amid grievances like staffing shortages and low pay, changed their careers. 

Health officials are encouraging vaccinations for COVID-19, influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) ahead of the winter illness season.

Striving to counteract the whiteness of most mental health treatment, Ashley McGirt-Adair hopes “Reclaiming Wellness” will be an annual event.

The virus, discovered long before the COVID-19 pandemic, originated in Saudi Arabia and can be deadly to humans.

Fall vaccines, long COVID, staying safe during summer travel — here’s how to assess risk in the months to come.

Local committees will still set nurse/patient ratios amid new state oversight, but workers argue the current complaint system falls short.

A new report from the Washington Health Alliance found that there's work to be done for the state's more socioeconomically disadvantaged areas.

Synergia CEO Philip Hirsch has a decades-old history of allegedly shortchanging workers, who say part of the problem was a lack of oversight.

HB 1134 will fund mobile units and increased training for the hotline and response service that launched last summer.

A project from the Washington State Department of Health is funding five organizations to help address racism and maternal mortality rates.

An expanded budget for the new suicide and mental health crisis line would support rapid-response teams and marketing efforts.

Tacoma-based MultiCare hopes to fund Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital services that are currently unavailable, including open-heart surgery.

Young activists visited Olympia to back the expansion of health-care access, including bills to shield providers and patients from out-of-state prosecution.

Amid a retention crisis, rural hospitals turned to pricey travel-nurse agencies with little oversight or transparency. Now they need a way forward.

As other states moved to ban abortion in 2022, elected officials, abortion providers and advocates worked to strengthen protections in Washington state.