PORT ANGELES – Olympic Medical Center will lease office space to the Department of Veterans Affairs Puget Sound health Care System for a “virtual” VA clinic at 1005 Georgiana St.
The VA will pay $1 a year under terms approved Wednesday by hospital commissioners.
It also will receive $25,000 in free radiology and laboratory services for patients who need it in emergencies.
The clinic, staffed by Marty Melcher, a Port Angeles nurse practitioner, is expected to open in late spring or early summer in OMC’s building.
The VA will be able to use the building five days a week.
However, Melcher also will visit the Lower Elwha Klallam Health Clinic, 243511 W. U.S. Highway 101, and Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles on Ediz Hook each week, according to the VA.
In addition, she will make home-health visits, the agency has said.
The Georgiana Street building was occupied by two doctors in private practice before they joined OMC earlier this year and the hospital bought their building.
It is furnished with office equipment and telephones. The VA will pay utilities.
