# Terms — credential-wa

> What this site is, what it is not, and the conditions the source attaches to its data.

## Terms

An independent site. Not the Department of Health, and not a background-check service.

### What this site is

An independent search layer over one public file. It is not affiliated
with, endorsed by, or connected to the Washington State Department of Health or the State of Washington.
It is not the official register, and nothing obtained here is a certified
record. For a certified copy, or for the position today, use
 the Department’s own
Provider Credential Search .

Our copy of the file is dated **2026-08-20** and covers
active credentials only. It drifts by roughly 6,583
credentials a month.

The absence of information in the Provider Credential Search system doesn’t imply any recommendation, endorsement or guarantee of competence of any healthcare professional. The presence of information in this system doesn’t imply a provider isn’t competent or qualified to practice.

### ⚠️ Not a consumer reporting agency

This site is **not** a consumer reporting agency as defined by
the **Fair Credit Reporting Act** (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.), and
nothing published or sold here is a consumer report.

You may not use this site, its pages, its search, its API or any dataset
obtained from it, in whole or in part, as a factor in deciding a person's
eligibility for:

- **employment**, promotion, reassignment or retention;
- **credit** or insurance underwriting;
- **housing** or tenancy;
- any other purpose covered by the FCRA.

Verifying that a licence exists, directly with the issuing authority, is a
different act from screening a person — and where a decision about someone
depends on it, the check belongs with a screening company that operates as a
consumer reporting agency and carries the obligations that come with it.

### Names, and why they appear here

This site republishes a public register that names people in their
professional capacity. It does not use anyone's name or identity to endorse,
advertise or sell anything, which is what Washington's Personality Rights Act (RCW 63.60) prohibits in Washington.

The distinction is not a technicality and we hold ourselves to it: no name
on this site appears in an advertisement, and no name is used to suggest that
someone recommends, supplies or is associated with anything sold here. If you
think a page crosses that line, tell us and it comes down.

### Having your entry removed

If you are named on this site and would rather not be, [write to us](/contact.md) and we will remove you. You do not have to explain why, and we
will not ask.

Two things this cannot do, and we say so plainly rather than let you find
out later: it does not change the official register, which is where the record
actually lives; and it does not remove you from anyone else's copy of the same
public data.

### The sources, and what they require

This site republishes public registers. Source by source: the licence it is published under, and the condition its publisher sets — read from the publisher's own terms page, on the date shown.

| Source | Licence | What the publisher requires |
|---|---|---|
| Health Care Provider Credential Data — Washington State Department of Health | Public Domain | The Department attaches a disclaimer to this data and we carry it word for word: « The absence of information in the Provider Credential Search system doesn’t imply any recommendation, endorsement or guarantee of competence of any healthcare professional. The presence of information in this system doesn’t imply a provider isn’t competent or qualified to practice. » The Department also states that this file is « a primary source for verification of credentials », extracted from its live database at 2:00 a.m. and published at 10:00 a.m. each day. — Terms read on 2026-08-20, terms |

### Errors

If a page here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. If the underlying
record is wrong, we cannot fix that — it has to be corrected with
the Washington State Department of Health, and our copy follows once the published file does.

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Página: https://credential-wa.pages.dev/terms/
Fonte: Health Care Provider Credential Data — Washington State Department of Health
Recolha: 2026-08-20