PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center administrators and Virginia Mason clinic doctors will meet today to discuss details of a strategy to keep the physicians in town and in practice.
Medical center CEO Mike Glenn hopes to make the plan public at Wednesday’s meeting of hospital commissioners.
The session will start at 6 p.m. in Linkletter Hall, downstairs in the medical center, 939 Caroline St.
Commissioners Harlan Knudson and Arlene Engel spoke optimistically about the proposal after a closed meeting at the hospital Monday afternoon.
“There’s been good give and take on both sides,” Knudson said, “a really sincere effort by the physicians and a good effort by Mike and his crew.”
Engel said, “We’re prepared to roll this thing out Wednesday night. We’re down to the fine points right now.”
April 30 closure planned
The clinic’s Seattle-based corporate parent plans to close the doctors’ offices at 433 E. Eighth St. on April 30.
Without a settlement with the medical center, its 11 primary-care providers might be displaced and their 12,700 patients abandoned.
