PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center’s commissioners have approved additional funding for the hospital’s ongoing construction projects at the main campus in Port Angeles.
The commissioners last Wednesday approved $930,611 in building change orders for the Port Angeles Medical Office Building, $1,085,414 to furnish the office building when completed, $52,298 to repair a portion of the existing hospital roof, and $84,352 for a nurse call station to be installed during renovations to the hospital’s CT Room.
Three change orders were approved for the Port Angeles Medical Office Building.
They add funding for the ongoing $16.35 million construction project that will include examination rooms, doctors’ offices, laboratories and primary-care and urgent-care clinics in the area of the hospital at 930 Caroline St.
A change order of $190,243 is for the restoration of the 930 Caroline St. area, Darryl Wolfe, OMC director of administration, said during the meeting.
“The reason this is a change order is because we acquired a property after the bid went out for the building, and what this is going to do is take that area where the women’s clinic used to sit and it is going to be all the trenching, the asphalting, the lighting [necessary] to turn that into a parking area,” Wolfe said.
A change order of $147,944 addresses the cost of cleaning up contaminated soil discovered in February during excavation of a lot on the Olympic Medical Center campus where a 42,000-square-foot medical office building currently is being constructed.
The contaminated soil was discovered Feb. 3 and was believed to have been caused by diesel leaking from old fuel tanks that have long since been removed.
“The change order for this was to excavate that area, remove that . . . contaminated soil for this site, backfill the hole, and haul the contaminated soil to the nearest waste contamination site that would accept it in Belfair,” Wolfe said.
A change order of $592,424 regards emergency power infrastructure that will provide electricity to the new office building when the main grid is disrupted, Wolfe said.
“When the building was initially designed, emergency power was not part of the design,” he said.
“After the building had already broken ground and we were underway, the decision was made to look at adding the [emergency] power system.”
The goal of this change order is to “add all the infrastructure” required for the system, Wolfe said.
Commissioners also approved contracts for new physicians.
The contracts are for Dr. Patrick Jewell, a radiation oncologist; Tamara Montgomery, an advanced registered nurse practitioner; Dr. Terri Oskin, a primary care physician; and Dr. Lindsay Hoffman, also a primary care physician.
Jewell will receive an annual salary of $425,000 and will work at OMC’s main campus.
“Dr. Jewell is a much needed replacement and it looks like we are on track to have him come before the end of June,” said Dr. Bill Kintner, Olympic Medical Physicians primary care medical director and physician counsel chair.
Jewell attended medical school and his residency at the University of Washington, is a former member of the Air Force and formerly had a private practice in the Denver area, Kintner said.
Montgomery will receive an annual salary of $95,000 and will work at OMC’s main campus.
Oskin will receive an annual salary of $200,000 and will work at the Olympic Medical Physicians Primary Care Clinic at 303 W. Eighth St.
Hoffman also will receive an annual salary of $200,000 and will work at the Olympic Medical Physicians Primary Care Clinic.
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