A state report published found 60 percent of pregnancy-related deaths in Washington State were preventable. Now health professionals from across the state are using the Healthier Washington Collaboration Portal to respond to this issue and introducing a new way of thinking about care to address death by suicide and accidental opioid overdose during or shortly after pregnancy.

The Behavioral Health Facilities (BHF) funding round for crisis stabilization facilities is now accepting applications. The competitive funding round is open to nonprofits, for-profit businesses, public entities, and tribes that are either a community hospital or a community-based behavioral health provider.

Awarded funding is available for the following:

The Washington Tracking Network’s Community Report tool makes it easier to understand the health of your community. The new tool lets you access all the available health measures for a given area, rather than having to select your region on each health measure. This will mean less time wading through data, making it easier to select all the measures you want to know about.

In January the state Department of Health launched a limited version of the Community Report tool, which had download-only capabilities. The newly released full version adds Tableau dashboard visualizations that are ready for use in publications and presentations, or for just understanding the data more easily.