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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:

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 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.

SourceLicenceWhat the publisher requires
Health Care Provider Credential Data — Washington State Department of HealthPublic DomainThe 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.