Article: SEN. MURRAY INCLUDES $4.65 MILLION FOR KING COUNTY HEALTH CARE, WORKFORCE, EDUCATION PROJECTS IN SENATE SPENDING BILL

Article: King County health insurance: Boondoggle or cutting edge?(Strange Bedfellows)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  June 3, 2009 ;     343 words ...King County employees have a health care plan that: a) is...18 million in health care costs since 2005...private sector, King County says. King County Councilwoman Julia...Patterson praised the health care plan, saying it...

Article: RACIAL BIAS SEEN IN HEALTH CARE 'DISCRIMINATION REMAINS A VERY REAL ISSUE,' SIMS SAYS AFTER NEW REPORT IS ISSUED.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 25, 2001 ;     569 words ......discrimination in health care settings, according...Health Seattle & King County. This report is...discrimination in health care settings in the...one in 20 of all King County residents. The...insured than the King county ...

Article: RACE BIAS AFFECTS HEALTH CARE, PANEL SAYS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 29, 2004 ;     575 words ......get better, faster. Health care in the United States...studies over the years in King County. A recent federal report...intentional malice. Every health care professional abhors...issue with a report on health care disparities issued last...

Article: Hague: All King Co. employees should pay for health care.(Strange Bedfellows)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 14, 2009 ;     152 words ...King County Councilwoman Jane...employees to pay a monthly health care premium. Currently...monthly contribution for health coverage. As King County looks for ways to...workers help pay for health care benefits. Hague said...premium. Sheadded King ...

Article: $1 MILLION GIFT BOOSTS DENTAL CARE FOR KING COUNTY CHILDREN.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 13, 2007 ;     236 words ......Buried in the debate about the nation's health care crisis are thousands of children in King County who lack dental coverage - a problem that...effort to make it easier for children to get health care. Only last fall, Group Health Cooperative...

Article: THEIR JOB: CURE THE HEALTH CARE CRISIS TASK FORCE IS AFTER BETTER CARE AT A LOWER COST FOR COUNTY.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  February 19, 2004 ;     700+ words ......study of how King County can lower its...annual growth in health care costs, an increase...in the local health care market. Together...represent 350,000 health care-consuming workers...the general health care across the county...

Article: Free health care ride over for some county workers?(Strange Bedfellows)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  May 7, 2009 ;     213 words ...King County employees who aren't in unions...have to pay for part of their health coverage under a plan introduced Thursday. King County Council Chairman Dow Constantine...don't have to pay anything for health care. That's not the case in other...The spiraling cost of employee ...

Article: FEWER BIRTHS BY TEENS IN KING COUNTY.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  June 12, 2003 ;     420 words ......VUONG P-I reporter Fewer King County teenagers became pregnant...2001, continuing a trend health officials attribute to better access to health care and education, increased...births to those age 15-17 in King County have been falling since 1992...prevention programs and ...

Article: KING COUNTY COUNSELOR SUSPENDED FOR SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 1, 2007 ;     251 words ......to immediately suspend a King County counselor. Flor Mari Crisostomo...who was a detainee at the King County Youth Services Center. Crisostomo...Quality Assurance regulates health care providers in Washington...the delivery of quality health care to state residents. ...

Article: `ACTION PLAN' SET FOR HEALTHIER KING COUNTY.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 8, 1997 ;     645 words ......initiative to improve health care, an advisory panel...for a healthier King County. The recommendations...private and public health care, emphasized strategies...Revelle, a former King County executive now representing...fast-changing face of health care. ...

Article: Sims Touts His Leadership Skills -- King County official enters race to succeed Locke as governor
Yakima Herald-Republic;  July 30, 2003 ;     584 words ...SEATTLE - King County Executive Ron Sims lost no time in...his competitors. Sims, who has led King County government for the past seven years...protect the environment and expand health care. Sims, 55, is one of at least three...downsize government and fix problems like health ...

Article: DYNACARE LABORATORIES SELECTED BY KING COUNTY MEDICAL
PR Newswire;  February 12, 1996 ;     280 words ...it has been selected by King County Medical Blue Shield (KCM...provider, Dynacare will assist King County Medical Blue Shield in its...Employee's Benefit Board, Basic Health Plan, and United Northwest...pleased to be selected by King County Medical, stated Osama Sherif...vital ...

Article: REGION ALERT TO BIOTERROR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM UNDERFUNDED.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  September 29, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Seattle & King County. A big part of...By the time each health care institution learns...17 hospitals in King County were wired into...funding for public health's role in bioterrorism...Health-Seattle & King County, agreed that public...

Article: KING COUNTY REGISTERED COUNSELOR SUSPENDED ON SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CHARGES
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 15, 2007 ;     231 words ......anus. Robillard also faces a King County criminal charge of first degree...conference. Consumers who believe a health care provider acted unprofessionally...Quality Assurance regulates health care providers in Washington by...promote the delivery of quality health care ...