WSU Spokane News

The Department of Veterans Affairs will establish occupancy in the Spokane Teaching Health Center in Fall 2020 with an outpatient primary clinic and two patient aligned care teams.

Koithan, who joined the College of Nursing on July 1, said she was drawn to WSU by its land‑grant mission and long history of working with underserved and rural populations.

A total of 326 first‑year students in WSU’s colleges of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences are already adapting to the changes of a new school year under the shadow of COVID‑19.

The study is recruiting participants ages 18-26 in the Pacific Northwest, and is based on a phone app developed by the EPA that tracks air quality, active fires and direction of smoke plumes.

The COVID Urban Rural Explorer is one of the first tools that enables users to identify rural counties across the country with both limited hospital capacity and where COVID‑19 cases are rapidly growing.

Esteban Herevia, an inclusion coordinator for the WSU College of Medicine, uses pride and faith to help communities, families and individuals recognize their power to create a culture of justice and diversity.

The WSU team’s findings suggest that Washingtonians who live in highly walkable, mixed‑age communities may be more likely to live to their 100th birthday.

The researchers already have a half dozen studies lined up to address critical questions related to the impact of COVID‑19 on the health of mothers, babies and families.

Sexual intimacy is an important quality-of-life issue for cancer patients, but it’s a difficult subject to talk about – even for nurses.  Freyja Herzog, who just earned her bachelor’s degree from the WSU College of Nursing, wanted to do something about that.   

Nursing graduate Jacqueline Flowers talks about creativity and flexibility in how WSU and health care professionals have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic.