According to EvergreenHealth's Communications Officer, the Emergency Department is considering a Behavioral Health Urgent Care clinic. The hospital is taking a look at Everett's Providence Hospital model. The Urgent Care model would 1) lighten the load of EvergreenHealth's busy emergency department, 2) cut hospital costs, 3) improve care and 4) help make those seeking behavioral health as seamless as those seeking medical care.
On another note: Three Redmond city councilmembers and I walked with an EvergreenHealth banner during the annual NAMI Mental Health Walk to raise awareness. A vice President within the EvergreenHealth organization gave me the banner and promised the hospital would open an out-patient mental health clinic if their $325M bond passed. The bond failed and we have no clinic.
The failed $325M bond measure also included seismic upgrades, relocating their Critical Care Unit (CCU) and renovating their Family Maternity Center (FMC.) Though, the hospital won't build a modest mental health clinic, they're moving forward with their plans to relocate and enhance the CCU and FMC with a $70,000,000 loan. As for seismic upgrades, still no word and it doesn't look good.
-- Bob Yoder
Source: Board of Commision public meeting minutes, 12/3/19
Kay Taylor, Marketing and Communications V.P.
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