From an offer to a record
A full name gives you something to check.
Keep the prescriber’s name and the pharmacy’s name as separate entries.
Use the state record for the named person.
For a free Washington credential check, enter a name or use the licence number.
Credential means the state-issued licence or other permission listed for the person or facility.
Search information recorded September 30, 2026.
Open the Washington credential search pageMatch the details, then read the record.
- Ask the service: who will assess me? Write down that person’s full name.
- Compare that name with the record, including the profession listed.
- Find the part that says whether the licence is active. Open any linked records about problems the licensing board has acted on.
- Ask the service to explain any mismatch before going further.
What the search publishes
What the search publishes
The Washington search shows licence status and public disciplinary actions taken after July 1998, as recorded September 30, 2026.
A disciplinary action means the licensing board has acted on a problem with someone’s licence or work. Ask what that action means for your care: does it limit the person’s work or stop them from practising?
- An empty action history
A record without public discipline is not the state recommending that person or guaranteeing their skill.
The pharmacy gets its own check.
Washington’s same search also covers pharmacy licences, under the Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission.
Pharmacy oversight recorded September 30, 2026.
Get the name of the pharmacy that will make or send the medicine. Compare it with the label later; keep the care service’s trading name apart from the pharmacy name.
Understand the pharmacy’s partA concern can go to the licensing body.
Washington’s medical commission takes complaints about MDs and PAs; nursing complaints go to the nursing board.
The health department takes complaints about pharmacies, doctors with a DO title and people working without the required licence.
Complaint routes recorded September 30, 2026.
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