PORT ANGELES — The Virginia Mason clinic closure appears to be off the critical list as clinic doctors and Olympic Medical Center administrators continue to resolve key issues.
About 100 clinic patients who packed a medical center commission meeting Wednesday learned they can continue to see the same doctors — mostly in the same place — on May 1.
That date will be the opening day of a hospital-affiliated organization at 433 E. Eighth St., which the clinic’s Seattle-based parent will abandon a few hours earlier.
Virginia Mason announced last September its intention to leave Port Angeles, saying it has been losing approximately $1 million annually since purchasing the facility in 1995.
The clinic’s nine family doctors will remain, although they will share the contract compensation of only seven people.
“We’ve reached agreement that no individual doctor would be laid off,” Dr. Bill Kintner, the clinic’s chief physician, told Peninsula Daily News before the meeting.
“All of the physicians will be working. Some will be somewhat part-time.”
