The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) recently announced that facilities having difficulty obtaining enough testing supplies to meet testing requirements have an option to request testing supplies directly from DOH. The testing supplies are PCR (molecular) tests and DOH will bear the cost of the test supplies and the cost to send the test to a DOH contracted laboratory. If a facility sends the test samples to their own laboratory, DOH will not reimburse the facility for that lab cost. 

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Questions?

Contact:

Laura Hofmann, MSN, RN – Director of Clinical and Nursing Facility Regulatory Services
c: 425-231-4804