Press Releases
- 12/23/25: WHCA Response to Ferguson Supplemental Budget Proposal
- 2/11/25: “Have a Heart” Rally at the Capitol
- 6/13/24: WHCA Announces “Excellence in Service” Award Winners
- 11/28/23: WHCA to Sponsor LPN Apprenticeship Pilot
- 01/27/23: House and Senate Release Bi-Partisan Legislation to Address Nursing Home Workforce Crisis (SB 5526/HB 1571)
In the News
- 1/3/26: ‘Silver tsunami’ may swamp long-term care in Clark County (The Columbian)
- 12/30/25: Editorial: Skilled nursing care must remain state budget priority (Everett Herald)
- 12/29/25: WA health care groups raise alarm over Ferguson budget (Seattle Times)
- 12/20/25: Comment: State funding cuts would devastate long-term care (Everett Herald)
- 12/18/25: Ferguson proposes $244M boost for housing programs (Washington State Standard)
- 12/17/25: Letter: Protect Medicaid funding in state (The Columbian)
- 12/17/25: Opinion: State must not short-change funding for long-term care centers (Spokesman Review)
- 12/15/25: Murray pushes to halt federal pilot adding AI to Medicare approvals (Seattle Times)
- 12/2/25: Opinion: As WA lawmakers face budget trouble, take care of our seniors (The Olympian)
- 7/21/25: Fiscal Fallout: Long-term care spending driver of Washington DSHS swelling budget (The Center Square, Washington)
- 5/7/25: Trump Medicaid cuts could close long-term care facilities in WA, Cantwell says (King5)
- 4/3/25: Opinion: Medicaid cuts would paralyze Central Washington (Cascade/PBS)
- 4/3/25: Long-term care workers need lawmakers in Olympia to step up support (Washington State Standard)
- 2/11/25: Editorial: Boost State Medicaid Funding for Long-Term Care (Everett Herald)
2024
- 5/8/24: The Impact – Steep Financial Losses for Hospitals and the Long-term Care Shortage (TVW)
- 2/15/24: Op-Ed: Current Medicaid Reimbursement Rates are Untenable (Spokesman-Review)
- 2/14/24: Seniors and caretakers deserve fully funded Medicaid (Columbia Basin Herald)
2023
- 4/6/23: Pair of bills aiming to reduce nursing shortages in Washington pass Legislature on Thursday (The Spokesman-Review)
- 3/21/23: Sales tax exemption for seniors’ meals passes WA House (Columbia Basin Herald)
- 3/16/23: Carma Matti-Jackson: Medicaid funding key to health care access (The Spokeman-Review)
- 3/15/23: In nursing homes, impoverished live final days on pennies (AP)
- 3/13/23: Long-term care insurance in the US: What you need to know (Bainbridge Island Review)
- 3/10/23: How Medicaid reimbursement rates cripple local health care (Kitsap Sun)
- 3/10/23: Washington nursing homes and long-term care facilities need more Medicaid funding from the WA Legislature to care for aging, elderly people (The Tacoma News Tribune)
- 3/5/23: Washington may expand who can be family caregiver (The Columbian)
- 3/4/23: Letter: State needs to adjust Medicaid funding (Skagit Valley Herald E-Edition)
- 3/2/23: State must address long-term care crisis | Letter to the editor (The Leader, Port Townsend)
- 2/22/23: Commentary: We Need Our Lawmakers to Adequately Fund Medicaid (The Chronicle)
- 2/20/23: Transitions to post-acute care are getting even more challenging (PhaMed abstract from Modern Healthcare)
- 2/16/23: Senior living meal tax unfairly targets independent living, advocates say (McKnights Senior Living)
- 2/15/23: Nursing homes face staffing crunch amid the rising need for beds (Auburn Reporter)
- 2/13/23: Nursing homes face staffing crunch—A bill in Olympia would increase Medicaid rates, wages to bolster skilled nursing facilities. (Everett Herald)
- 2/8/23: Opinion: Update WA Medicaid rates to ease long-term care staffing crisis (Seattle Times)
- 1/13/23: ‘The whole thing is broken’: Temp staffing costs strain WA hospitals (Crosscut)
- 1/12/23: GUEST OPINION: Christian Health Care Center needs help (Lyndon Tribune)
- 1/8/23: Nursing home staff shortage a ‘crisis’ in Clark County, Washington (The Columbian)