PORT ANGELES — After swearing in three re-elected commissioners during their regular meeting Wednesday, the Olympic Medical Center board of commissioners elected John Nutter as president and Jean Hordyk as secretary.
“It is going to be a fun year to be president,” Nutter said after the vote.
Sworn in were Jim Cammack, representing District 3 in Position 1; Jim Leskinovitch in the at-large position; and Tom Oblak, representing District 1 in Position 2.
All three ran unopposed in the general election.
The board of commissioners also includes John Beitzel, representing District 1 in Position 1; Nutter, representing District 2 in Position 1; Hordyk, representing District 2 in Position 2; and Dr. John Miles, representing District 3 in Position 2.
Oblak preceded Nutter as president, having been elected by the board to that position in 2015 and serving until the beginning of Wednesday’s meeting.
Eric Lewis, the hospital’s chief executive officer, took a moment during the meeting to thank Oblak for his service throughout the past year.
“I just want to say, every board president works really hard, but 2015 — for a lot of reasons — was a very busy year, and I want to thank you for your hard work and dedication and commitment to OMC,” Lewis said.
“I think you have really helped this year. I really appreciate your leadership. You have really supported me and guided me, and I don’t think I would have gotten through the year without your help.”
Upon accepting the mantle of president, Nutter said he is “very excited about the new year.”
OMC “is really headed down the road to do some wonderful, exciting things this next year,” Nutter continued.
Medical office building
Nutter said at the top of that list is the construction of a 42,000-square-foot medical office building currently being erected to the south of the main hospital building.
The $16.2 million project, built by Kirtley-Cole Associates LLC of Everett, will include examination rooms, doctors’ offices, laboratories and primary-care and urgent-care clinics.
The project officially began with a groundbreaking ceremony this past September and is expected to be completed in October, Lewis has said.
“We’ve got a new medical office building going up, and it is really going to help the needs of our community,” Nutter said.
“We have a lot of new . . . services we are going to be able to offer our constituents and our public.”
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