PORT ANGELES — Vacationing volunteers and a departing director have forced the VIMO clinic to close to all but established patients for the foreseeable future.
VIMO — Volunteers in Medicine of the Olympics — announced the cutback Monday, a little more than a month after it had issued a plea for more providers at the clinic that serves uninsured and underinsured people.
The facility at 909 Georgiana St., serves about 1,250 established patients.
Volunteer doctors and nurses will continue to see them from noon to 5 p.m. on Mondays and 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursdays, with behavioral health patients seen on Fridays by referral.
But the 50 new patients per month the clinic has been seeing will find their options for affordable treatment reduced to one choice:
The emergency room at Olympic Medical Center.
