SEQUIM — Olympic Medical Center will provide financial assistance to two doctors in Virginia Mason’s soon-to-close Sequim clinic in an effort to get them to remain in the area.
The doctors — dermatologist Claire L. Haycox and internist and pulmonary specialist Rebecca Corley — will get loans from the medical center to help them start private practices in Sequim, Olympic Medical Center Public Information Director Rhonda LoPresti said Saturday.
The move follows last month’s Virginia Mason announcement that the Sequim clinic, 777 N. Fifth, will close in March.
Virginia Mason’s clinic in Port Angeles is expected to remain open.
Up to 6,000 patients could be affected by the closure of the Sequim clinic.
Haycox and Corley are two of the seven physicians working at the Sequim clinic.
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