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Spokane’s 2024–2025 Community Health Needs Assessment: Our Health Matters

Spokane’s 2024–2025 Community Health Needs Assessment: Our Health Matters

By Amy Jennings
September 04, 2025

Spokane Regional Health District, in partnership with Providence and MultiCare recently released the 2024-2025 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Why is this important? Because your health matters. This report tells us what keeps Spokane County from reaching its best health. Like a map, it looks at where we are right now, where we want to be in the future, and what partnerships and programs can help us get there.

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It’s Time to Get Wildfire Smoke Ready!

It’s Time to Get Wildfire Smoke Ready!

By Amy Jennings
June 09, 2025

June 9-13 is Smoke Ready Week. This week Spokane Regional Health District joins Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency and Gonzaga Univerty’s Institute for Climate, Water, and Environment to share tips and resources through a newly launched website, community partners, and social media. This year’s theme is SMOKE: Five Tips to Help You Breathe Easier.

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Do Babies Get Too Many Vaccines?

Do Babies Get Too Many Vaccines?

By Amy Jennings
December 12, 2024

While vaccines introduce some antigens, babies are exposed to way more from the world around them. The cool part? Modern vaccines use way fewer antigens than the ones from 40 years ago. So, babies get to learn more about diseases with less exposure to the actual germs. It’s like getting an accelerated course in immunity—less homework, better results!

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What Was Up With the Syphilis Billboards?

What Was Up With the Syphilis Billboards?

By Amy Jennings
August 13, 2024

Cases of syphilis in the U.S. have reached their highest levels since the 1950s, and, heartbreakingly, cases of syphilis among newborns have gone up more than tenfold in the U.S. over the past 10 years. Already this year, more infants in Spokane County have been born with syphilis than in the previous two years combined. We hope that these billboards encouraged conversations about syphilis so that people are tested, treated, and cured.

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