Topic: 2025 Washington Legislative Session

Washington State Standard | April 3, 2025

Long-term care workers need lawmakers in Olympia to step up support

By Alicia Harris, SEIU 775 Nursing Home Member Published in the Washington State Standard Inside a nursing home, you’ll find individual residents receiving support for their most basic needs: their showers, meals, bathroom visits, medications and more. You’ll also find a passionate, hard-working staff of caregivers who work too hard for too little compensation and […]

KING 5 | February 28, 2025

Nursing Home CNA Responds to Gov. Ferguson’s Budget Plan

CNA Clare Bellefeuille-Rice shared with KING 5 News how life how devastating cuts to long-term care would be for Nursing Home workers who already struggle with short staffing. “We’re already in crisis in long-term care. Do I change this person’s brief or do I brush their teeth? Because I don’t have time to do it […]

Public News Service | February 19, 2025

Affordable health insurance could ease WA caregiver shortage

“Worker’s rights advocates and nursing home providers say Washington has a long-term care workforce crisis, and that inadequate benefits in the nursing home industry are part of the problem. Legislation moving through Olympia – known as the Essential Worker Healthcare Program – would provide affordable health insurance to nursing home workers. Alicia Harris is a […]