The Kitsap Public Health Board is agreed about one thing – we are in the middle of a serious public health crisis. But they are far from agreed when it comes to what to do about it. At Tuesday September 28th’s special meeting of three …
Over the first year of the pandemic most health insurance companies voluntarily waived the cost of co-pay and deductible payments for COVID patients, largely because they expected the Federal Government to eventually require them to do so. However, that never actually happened, and so, now …
It looks like there may well be a bit of a Summer 2021 cruise season after all. The CDC has revised its Conditional Sail Order to allow sailings from some U.S. ports by mid-July 2021, provided stringent COVID protocols are in place, including vaccination of …
COVID-19 Vaccine Updates As the fight against COVID-19 progresses, the focus is swung into prevention, and vaccine opportunities are increasing with every week. The Department of Health is projecting that Washington’s weekly state vaccine allocations will almost double by next month – from around 350,000 …
With President Biden signing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act into law last week, new sources of business support are springing into life, paired with extensions and updates to many pre-existing programs. The act adds new funding to both the Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) …
Island businesses are eligible to apply to receive between $5,000 and $10,000 in the COVID recovery business grants program created by the City of Bainbridge Island. The Kitsap Economic Development Alliance (KEDA) will be administering the COBI business grant applications. A total of $200,000 has …
Apply, Apply, Apply is Key Take-Away from The Kitsap Digital Hour This week’s presentation from Jaime Forsyth, Certified Business Advisor with the Kitsap Small Business Development Center, issued a heads up that applications for the special round of First Draw PPP loans for very small …
Kitsap Digital Hour: Dig Deeper into New Business Recovery Funding Are you managing to keep up with the new business grant opportunities, and stay on top of all the most recent changes to the existing programs? If you are not, or not sure, then the …
All counties in Washington State have now been allowed to move into Phase 2 of the official Healthy Recovery plan as of this week. Now we have finally taken the next step back towards normality, the state-wide focus is on building on this latest progression, …
Kitsap County Public Health announced Monday morning that the new COVID-19 vaccination center at St. Michael’s Bremerton had filled all available appointment slots for the time being: “Due to overwhelming demand for COVID-19 vaccination, all appointments available at the Kitsap Public Health District community vaccine …