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Washington State Unemployment Claims: Health Related Occupations to 6/20/20

This brief shows the number of both initial and continuing unemployment claims in Washington State [...]

UW CHWS Director and Senior Deputy Director discuss decisions about returning to pre-pandemic scope-of-practice policies in Health Affairs blog

Director Bianca Frogner and Senior Deputy Director Sue Skillman co-author a Health Affairs blog post [...]

State-by-State Unemployment Claims by Health Care Workers 2/2020 – 5/2020

Four exhibits show the rate of unemployment claims filed by health care workers from February [...]

Washington State Initial Unemployment Claims for Specific Health Care Related Occupations 3/8-5/9/2020

This summary shows initial unemployment insurance claims in Washington State for specific health care related [...]

UW CHWS June 2020 Newsletter

  UW CHWS recently released the June 2020 edition of our quarterly newsletter highlighting the [...]

Washington State Unemployment Claims: Health Related Occupations to 5/23/20

This brief shows the number of both initial and continuing unemployment claims in Washington State [...]

Do Medicare’s Rural Add-On Payments Impact the Number of Home Health Agencies Serving Rural Communities?

Home health agencies provide critical nursing and therapy services to over three million Medicare beneficiaries [...]

State-by-State Unemployment Claims by Health Care Workers 2/2020 – 4/2020

Four exhibits show the rate of unemployment claims filed by health care workers from February [...]

Why do we only care about long-term care in a crisis? New report from Bianca Frogner in The Hill

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the tremendous sacrifice that Americans are willing to make to protect [...]

Washington State Initial Unemployment Claims: Health Related Occupations 1/11/20 – 5/9/20

This figure summarizes data on initial unemployment claims in Washington State for selected health occupations [...]