25 November 2024 The WANP shares the concern of our community on learning that the accreditation status of Bastyr University has been sanctioned by both the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) - which provides institutional accreditation to the...
7 October 2024 For the past several months, we have been actively participating in the rule-making initiated by the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA) to update multiple sections of WAC 388-823. The WANP...
23 September 2024 At the beginning of each school year, we hear from several of our members that schools will not accept Preparticipation Physical Examination forms (aka "sports physicals") that are signed by naturopathic physicians. We have been working with the...
30 August 2024 WANP's Executive Director spent the better part of the month conducting an in-depth review of the draft Sunrise Review report released by the Washington Department of Health on 1 August 2024, collecting additional information and data to confirm or...
1 August 2024 Earlier today, many of you received the long-awaited draft of the Department of Health's Sunrise Review report on our scope expansion/modernization bill. In all honesty, I have been sitting with it for the past several hours trying to collect my...
1 July 2024 The WANP has been working closely with the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries over the last several months to update the billing codes utilized by naturopathic physicians - transitioning our doctors from unique "local" codes to...
13 June 2024 We are sad to report that - despite our significant efforts over the last 9 months - the Department of Health has finalized the proposed changes to WAC 246-338-020 to remove naturopathic physicians and midwives from the list of health care providers that...
24 April 2024 What a truly inspiring morning! Mere hours ago, the Public Comment Meeting portion of our Sunrise Review drew to a close, and we are unspeakably proud of how our community showed up in support of our effort to expand naturopathic scope of practice to...
1 February 2024 Here at the WANP, we keep busy year-round advocating for our profession and working to make sure our legal scope isn't eroded or violated by internal policies of various companies or organizations. This advocacy work stretches far beyond the state...
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