Olympic Medical Center to consider Eighth Street clinic pact
Published 5:06 am Tuesday, July 31, 2007
PORT ANGELES – Olympic Medical Center commissioners hope to award a bid on Wednesday to remodel OMC’s Eighth Street clinic.
They will meet at 6 p.m. in Linkletter Hall in the basement of the hospital, 939 Caroline St.
On July 18, commissioners raised the ceiling on the cost of the work after two local contractors – Aldergrove Construction Inc. and Hoch Construction Inc., both of Port Angeles – exceeded the original limit of $780,000.
The new ceiling is $1,053,000.
If a contract is awarded, it will fund refurbishing the building at 833 E. Eighth St. that once belonged to Virginia Mason Medical Center of Seattle.
Virginia Mason closed the clinic – and OMC took it over – in the spring of 2006.
Virginia Mason claimed it had lost $10 million in the decade it had owned the facility.
OMC’s strategy to put the clinic in the black is called provider-based or hospital-based billing.
It will allow Olympic Medical Physicians, a hospital subsidiary, to bill Medicare both for its facilities and for its doctors’ services.
First, however, OMC must bring the clinic up to “hospital standards” set by the state.
Also at Wednesday’s meetings, commissioners will:
