Health Care
Amazon Will Now Deliver Medications to Your Doorstep
Amazon Pharmacy will launch in more than 50,000 pharmacies in 45 states
Amazon is launching an online pharmacy that delivers prescription medication to your doorstep, the Seattle-based company announced Tuesday. The announcement comes one day after the company said it would launch a grocery delivery service, and is further proof that Amazon is increasingly broadening its scope to become involved in more aspects of consumers’ lives. Amazon…
Fred Hutch to Begin Covid-19 Vaccine Trial
The cancer research center is enrolling volunteers for a Phase 3 Study
Seattles Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center is starting volunteer enrollment for a Covid-19 vaccine trial. The study will examine whether AstraZenecas AZD1222 vaccine can protect against Covid-19. The announcement comes the same day that drug company Pfizer said that its clinical trial showed its vaccine was more than 90% effective. Fred Hutch hopes to enroll…
CBRE Names Seattle Top Hub for Life Sciences Industry, VC Funding
In the second quarter of 2020, the citys life sciences industry received $613.5 million in venture capital funding
As the race to create a coronavirus vaccine intensifies, the life sciences industry has boomed. Seattle is a hub for this growth, according to commercial real estate firm CBRE. Seattle ranks No. 9 in a report of the largest life sciences markets in the United States. The report measures the life sciences job market, lab-space…
Telehealth ‘A Silver Lining’
Virtual medicine will become much more prevalent after the pandemic passes
Even before Covid-19 struck the United States, health care costs were skyrocketing and hospital finances were shaky. These facts placed both providers and patients on a collision course, which our current pandemic has amplified. In many parts of the country, the coronavirus has forced clinics and hospitals to slow or stop nonemergency services temporarily. Now…
Lessons From a Crisis
Telemedicine is here to stay and other observations from those on the front lines of the pandemic
Covid-19 has created four significant crises in health care, according to The New England Journal of Medicine: The loss of employer-sponsored insurance for millions of Americans; deep financial losses for medical providers; racial and ethnic disparities in the healthcare system; and a failure of the public health system to identify and control the spread of…
Urgent-Care Clinic Operator Zoom+Care Launches Coronavirus Self-Testing Pilot in Seattle
If the pilot is successful, it could lead to Zoom+Care offering coronavirus self-testing kits to patients across the Pacific Northwest
If the pilot is successful, it could lead to Zoom+Care offering coronavirus self-testing kits to patients across the Pacific Northwest
Walk-In Clinic Chain Zoom+Care Launches Virtual Health Care Service in Washington Ahead of Schedule
The new online health care service also will offer free coronavirus-risk assessments for patients in Washington and Oregon
Urgent-care center operator Zoom+Care has expanded its telehealth care service ChatCare to the greater Seattle market ahead of schedule in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in Washington. The ChatCare service, previously only available through Zoom+Cares Oregon clinics, offers online diagnosis, treatment and prescription-medication service for a range of common conditions, such as colds and…
Washington Health Care Systems Ban Together to Battle Climate Change
A group of the states leading health care organizations has formed an alliance to advocate for smart climate policies and regulations
A group of eight of Washingtons largest health systems have formed an alliance focused on helping to protect communities from the dire health impacts of climate change, such as more frequent heat waves, wildfires and the resulting poor air quality they create. The new alliance, called the Washington Health Care Climate Alliance, or the WA…
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Nursing Home at Seattle’s Ida Culver House Broadview Laying Off 148 as Part of a Care-Model Transition
The facility is being converted into an assisted-living and memory-care community slated to reopen next year
Ida Culver House Broadview in Northwest Seattle plans to lay off 148 full- and part-time employees at the start of next year, according to a federal WARN Act notice. The layoffs are part of a plan to convert the skilled-nursing facilities at the retirement community to a new care model offering higher-level assisted-living and secured…