WHCA in the News Update

Our work to ensure the public understands what’s at stake in legislative budget decisions continues to be critical, and our efforts with our members show in the statewide media support for SNF and AL funding. Here’s WHCA’s media alert regarding House and Senate supplemental budget proposals. Check out a couple WHCA in the News updates below and consider reposting to your own social media channels with a message of support. 

“The need for a stable and secure healthcare system in Washington state has always been true, but now it’s also growing. As baby boomers reach retirement age, the number of Washington residents over age 85 is expected to quadruple by 2050.

Long-term care services like ours are an essential part of the housing and healthcare infrastructure in our communities. We must invest to ensure that these services will be there when we need them, too.”

Read Parker Rieckleman’s powerful and informative guest column from the Tri-City Herald now.

“… As our state lawmakers consider a dire financial situation, I implore them to preserve last year’s long-awaited Medicaid rebase for skilled nursing facilities and to remember that every cut they make will hit central Washington harder than anywhere else.”

Read Joany Schimmelfennig’s Op-Ed in the Yakima Herald-Republic, highlighting the work of Good Samaritan Health Center in Yakima.

We appreciate our members who lend their voices to the legislature and to the media. Firsthand experience is the best teacher, and that is being demonstrated in our members’ consistent work.