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Vancouver Clinic wants to more than double size of its Camas clinic

July 26, 2024, 3:20pm Business Updated 2 hours ago

One of Clark County’s largest health care providers, the Vancouver Clinic, plans to expand its Camas location. Read story

Kaiser Permanente opens stand-alone imaging center in Vancouver

July 24, 2024, 6:08am Business Updated 1 day ago

Kaiser Permanente’s new stand-alone imaging facility is now open in central Vancouver. Read story

A rendering of a planned stand-alone, inpatient rehabilitation facility in Vancouver.

PeaceHealth plans to build rehab facility to treat patients with brain injuries in Vancouver

July 12, 2024, 6:08am Business

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center announced Wednesday it will partner with Lifepoint Rehabilitation to build and operate a new stand-alone, inpatient rehabilitation facility in Vancouver. Read story

Making WA’s long-term care program optional will create costs for state

July 8, 2024, 2:19pm Latest News Free

If voters pass Initiative 2124 to make Washington’s long-term care benefit voluntary, it could cost the state millions of dollars to deal with a large-scale exodus of people from the program. Read story

A new emergency room building at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver will open to patients July 16.

PeaceHealth Southwest’s new emergency department will feature Community Health Hub

June 28, 2024, 2:56pm Business

The first phase of a redesigned emergency department at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver will open to patients July 16. Read story

Aynsley, from left, and his wife, Nicci, watch 15-month-old Everett play with a race car set at the Silva residence in Vancouver. The Silvas received an emergency room hospital bill with a $4,178 charge they were not expecting from PeaceHealth while Nicci Silva was pregnant.

Surprise – it’s $4,178 more: Couple struggle with unexpected hospital bill, hope for more transparency from systems

June 27, 2024, 6:09am Clark County Health

Nicci Silva was five months pregnant when she began having heart palpitations on a late October night in 2022. She and her husband, Aynsley, didn’t think twice before visiting the nearest urgent care clinic. Read story

Gov. Jay Inslee says Washington will make clear that hospitals must provide emergency abortions

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to reporters during a news conference in Seattle, Tuesday, June 11, 2024, as abortion rights supporters listen. Inslee announced that Washington state will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide abortions if needed to stabilize patients, a step that comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on whether conservative states can bar abortions during some medical emergencies.

June 11, 2024, 4:17pm Health

Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide abortions if needed to stabilize patients, a step that comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on whether conservative states can bar abortions during some medical emergencies. Read story

Health experts: Syphillis is a prevalent infection in Clark County homeless camps

The most memorable wave of syphilis for Kurt Kenoyer, a physician assistant working for Columbia River Mental Health, occurred in 2022 when a camp in Vancouver’s North Image neighborhood called The Swamps existed. “I wouldn’t call it an outbreak, but there were quite a few clients there that we were trying to treat and also get tested,” he said.

Syphilis has surged in Clark County in recent years, a trend reflected throughout the United States. It’s especially an issue for Clark County’s growing population of homeless people, who lack medical care and are more at risk of sexual assault, experts say. Read story