SEQUIM — Olympic Medical Center Commissioner Harlan Knudson of Sequim says the dark cloud over health care in Clallam County may be dissipating.
“There are lots of reasons not to be optimistic,” Knudson told members of the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce during a meeting Tuesday at John Wayne Marina.
“Local doctors aren’t taking Medicare/Medicaid patients, people are having a difficult time finding access to doctors and there are many uninsured people in the working core.”
But Knudson, who spent 25 years in executive management with the Washington State Medical Association and nine years with the Alaska Hospital and Nursing Home Association before retiring to Sequim, said current trends in health care have given him an optimism despite the sometimes gloomy outlook.
Knudson was appointed in 2000 as one of two representatives of eastern Clallam County to the medical center board and then elected to the position in 2001.
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