Posts by Columbia County Health System

These hospitals can mean the difference between life and death. Source: One-third of Washington’s rural hospitals are at risk. What will happen if they close?

Christopher Davis was lying on the floor watching cartoons one night last December while his mother, Beverly, decorated her Spokane home for Christmas. Source: Families, advocates sound alarm over patients stuck in the hospital without a medical need

Rural medical facilities such as those in Walla Walla and Columbia counties face a number of challenges, one of which is a critical shortage of doctors opting to practice in Source: Rural health systems work on recruitment puzzle

Angela Trenti was recently featured on Blue Mountain TV to discuss our wound care program; this segment included a testimonial from one of our patients Mr. Dave Hale who discussed how both our swing bed program and our wound care program helped him. We appreciate Dave’s participation and for providing permission, allowing us to tell…

Columbia County Health System is a 2019 Intalere Healthcare Achievement Award Winner. Cheryl Skiffington and her materials management team of Chris Davis and Matt Ott won the Supply Chain/Data Management or Supply Cost Efficiencies Award for Our Materials Management Redesign Project. Congratulations to this great team as they have worked hard to improve efficiency and…

Members of our revenue cycle team participated in a high performing team building exercise; we brought our complete revenue cycle back in-house in 2018 after having outsourced it since 2010. Members of this team are both patient centered and have set high standards for themselves. Notes from the meeting indicated the characteristics of a high…

As financial pressures have forced scores of small-town nursing homes to shut down, their residents often must relocate far from their families to find care. Source: Nursing Homes Are Closing Across Rural America, Scattering Residents

Many facilities are using nostalgic environments as a means of soothing the misery, panic, and rage their residents experience. Source: The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care

KING 5’s Amity Addrisi reports. Source: Telepsychiatry brings help to rural areas

National Rural Health Association: The Problem: Rural hospitals are closing where patient populations are most vulnerable; rural patients and rural economies suffer. NRHA: Click to Read More