PORT ANGELES — How can they resist?
The three Clallam County commissioners today will waive competitive proposals to provide health care at the juvenile detention facility, thanks to Family Planning of Clallam County’s promise not to raise its rates.
Of course, there also was the fact that no other agency expressed interest in the contract, Pete Peterson, director of Juvenile and Family Services, told commissioners at their weekly work session Monday.
Peterson said he’d contacted Olympic Medical Center — which will raise its rates 5 percent in 2007, as it did in 2006 — about the contract.
OMC provides health care services in the county’s adult jail.
“I didn’t hear back from them,” Peterson said.
According to County Administrator Jim Jones, “His (Peterson’s) calling around showed there wasn’t another provider willing to do, in toto, what Family Planning is willing to do.”