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...
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...
21 March 2024 We finally received word late last week that the Public Comment Meeting for the on-going Sunrise Review on Senate Bill 5411 has been scheduled! The Department of Health will hear oral comments on WANP's scope expansion efforts between 9a and 12p on...
7 March 2024 The 2024 Legislative Session officially ended today. This short session kept us busy, despite our priority scope modernization bill being stuck in Sunrise Review status. The WANP weighed in on many bills that could impact the naturopathic physician...
26 January 2024 We are ELATED to share that - with the supportive weigh in of hundreds of naturopathic physicians and literally thousands of health care practitioners from across the state - the bill we've highlighted that would require annual cost of living...
22 January 2024 The WANP was thrilled to welcome over 30 naturopathic physicians, naturopathic medical students, and community members to hear from the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 5411, Senator Shelly Short (R-7) near our state Capitol in Olympia this evening. We are...
8 January 2024 Today marks the start of the "short" 2024 Legislative Session in Washington State, and WANP's priority scope modernization bill - Senate Bill 5411 - remains in the midst of an updated Sunrise Review with the Washington State Department of Health (DOH)....
17 November 2023 Below is my summary of the key discussions and decisions made at today's regular business meeting of the Board of Naturopathy, which regulates the practice of naturopathic medicine. (Please note that this summary does not reflect official meeting...
9 October 2023 From the Washington State Department of Health Office of Health Professions: The Washington State Senate Health and Long Term Care Committee has requested the department review a proposal to increase the naturopathic physician scope of practice. This...
24 April 2023 We are so sad to share that our priority legislative effort to better align our legal scope of practice with our legal recognition as primary care providers did not move forward this past session. Our prime sponsor, Sen. Shelly Short (R-7), continues to...
1 February 2023 KUOW (Seattle NPR affiliate) Public Health Reporter EilÃs O'Neill was scanning bills from the 2023 Legislative Session looking for anything aiming to help with the on-going opioid epidemic. She came upon Senate Bill 5411: Addressing a shortage of...
13 January 2023 The 2023 Legislative Session is officially underway and we are excited to bring forward SB 5411: Increasing the scope of practice of naturopathic physicians once again. This bill is aimed at increasing the prescriptive authority of naturopathic...
12 January 2023 On December 29, 2022, President Biden signed the Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act into law. One effect of this law is to eliminate the federal waiver requirement for providers to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder. This is...
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