Press Releases
In the News
- 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)
- 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)