Money and medicine
KUOW looks at the salaries of Seattle’s top docs and charity care Washington non-profit hospitals give
John Ryan, a reporter for Seattle’s Public Radio affiliate KUOW, looked at how much Seattle-area hospitals, most of which enjoy the tax benefits of non-profit status, pay their top officials and how much charity care they provide.
Salaries, Ryan [...]
The Association of Washington Business has awarded Valley Medical Center’s Safety Team a “Better Workplace Award” for reducing worker’s compensation injuries, adopting innovative safe patient handling techniques, and improving its return to work strategies.
The safe patient handling initiative included the development of ”Lift Teams” that specializes in helping move patients. The members of these teams [...]
Valley Medical Center in Renton will now have a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology in its hospital 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
These specialists will be available to evaluate all patients admitted with emergency obstetrical and gynecologic problems and be available to help with any urgent needs of hospitalized patients with obstetrical and gynecologic [...]
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