Over 1,800 wildfires occurred last year in Washington State. Knowing how to stay safe when wildfire smoke affects our community's air quality is important for avoiding illness and keeping yourself and others safe.

After a cold spring here in the Inland Northwest, you can bet there will be some enthusiasm when it finally warms up enough for swimming season. While we wait, let’s get our safety plan in place so we can be ready for a fun summer!

This month is Mental Health Awareness Month. Mental health is important because it affects everyone in our community, including adults, children, caretakers, parents, and students. Learn more about how you can offer support to yourself or to someone who might be struggling.

May is Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AA and NH/PI) Heritage Month, a time to celebrate the AA and NH/PI communities’ contributions to public health. Throughout these diverse populations is strength, resilience, and ingenuity that has changed the landscape of public health in our country. Here are a few of the communities’ many health heroes.

We love to celebrate our nurses, and sometimes it’s best to hear their stories in their own words. Sharon Delaney is a public health nurse at SRHD who joined the immunization team during the pandemic. Here is her inspiring story.

This week is National Nurses Week! Nurses have always played an important role in our community, and over the last two years, their contributions have only increased. However, we also want to call to attention some of the struggles nurses have faced as a result of COVID-19 and offer ways we can help support them.