SEQUIM — It doesn’t look like a free clinic anymore.
Tonight for the first time, the Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic will spread out in its new home: 2,000 square feet of private examination rooms, Internet stations, kitchen and a community classroom.
The center, known as the free clinic, will provide free exams and referrals to anyone who lacks the insurance needed to cover health care, just as it has done for the past seven years.
The difference is the location, which is twice the size of the old one on North Sequim Avenue.
The space, at the rear, west-facing side of the Sequim Medical Plaza at 777 N. Fifth Ave., is essentially being donated by Olympic Medical Center, for lease payments of $1 per year, said clinic board president John Beitzel. OMC previously used it for records storage.
Jamie Goodwin, the clinic’s director, scurried around her new place on Wednesday, preparing for today’s 5 p.m. opening.
