The Governor’s proposal also funded a majority of the University of Washington’s legislative priorities and a few additional items including: Finally, his climate package devotes funding to improving siting and permitting for clean energy and transmission, helping the salmon recover and thrive, and mobilizing a future clean energy workforce. To expand access to behavioral health care, the Governor proposes increasing treatment bed capacity, providing additional services for children and youth, growing the workforce, and improving provider rates. His proposal dedicates $4 billion over the next six years to increase the supply of affordable housing across the state, including higher density development along transportation corridors. The Governor’s proposed operating budget prioritizes addressing the state’s homelessness and housing crisis, improvements to the behavioral health system, and climate action.
Jay Inslee unveiled his 2023-25 operating and capital budget proposals, as the first step in the state budget process. 9 and for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators will meet in person in Olympia to decide the state’s biennial budget and policy. We appreciate your support of the UW! Governor releases 2023-25 biennial budget proposals with substantial UW investments Inslee, for speaking with our state’s future physicians. Together, the UW and Gonzaga strive to expand medical education, to encourage more health professionals to learn and work in Eastern Washington, and to improve the health and wellbeing of Washington state. The new medical education facility, along with the adjacent Spokane Inland Empire Railroad (SIERR) building, creates a novel health care innovation cluster for the health science and medical industry in Spokane. Inslee stopped by a classroom to see the students learning and took the opportunity to connect with them. The students receive training in basic science and clinical education, as well as training specific to rural and underserved communities. The building has state-of-the-art classrooms, anatomy labs, research and innovation centers, and study spaces. Developed through a public-private partnership with McKinstry, the 80,000 square-foot building aims to help Washington state address the growing shortage of primary care physicians, particularly in rural and underserved communities.įor the UW, the new facility houses the first 18 months of the UW School of Medicine in Spokane’s medical education program and the MEDEX Northwest physician assistant education program. In that vain, Inslee implored any retired health care workers who might be willing to come out of retirement to help in the efforts to fight the outbreak to do so and his office is doing what it can to help expedite the process to get people re-licensed to practice medicine again.įor more information, go online to coronavirus.wa.gov.Today, Governor Jay Inslee toured the UW School of Medicine-Gonzaga University Regional Health Partnership’s (RHP) new center for medical education, health sciences, and innovation in Spokane. While additional equipment and hospital capacity is needed - the governor noted that the state will be receiving two field hospitals through FEMA - there is also the need of additional medical personnel. He added he is also searching the globe for equipment, even reaching out to one of his neighbors who has connections in China to see if there is equipment available there that could be shipped to Washington. Inslee said in Washington, the state has purchased additional equipment from private vendors, thanking members of the public who have donated to the cause. He said if the federal government became a buyer, it would have more buying power than any individual state, adding that other state governors shared this view. While he did not go into the specifics of where that funds will be spent in Washington, Inslee said money will be distributed to families and people who are receiving state unemployment benefits would get an extra $600 per week for up to four months.Īlthough he is appreciative of a recent shipment of medical personal protection equipment (PPE) Washington received from the federal government, Inslee said the federal government needs to step up its efforts in responding to the outbreak, noting that all 50 states are in a “mad scramble” to get the equipment and supplies they need to address the outbreak.
“I want to thank the Congress for acting on this,” he said. Inslee also touched briefly on the $2.2 trillion stimulus package Congress passed March 25.
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