Health Care – Page 14 – Washington State Senior Citizens' Lobby

Some local doctors, once again faced with a large cut in what the government pays them for treating Medicare patients,

$281M Cut from State Social Programs ‘Devastating,” Advocates say

Cutting programs for the mentally ill, disabled and poor elderly residents, the state’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS)

In an attempt to overhaul Washington’s adult family-home system, the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) is seeking new

A SYSTEMIC overhaul of Washington’s adult family home industry must lead to tougher regulations. The urgency is heartbreakingly illustrated by

In a rare conviction involving elder neglect, a former caregiver at a Kirkland adult family home was sentenced to 31

The explosion that had ravaged Audree Hopkins’ face, burning off both earlobes and the end of her nose, was a

Some fell to the floor and bled to death internally. Others choked on food and suffocated. Still others languished for