PORT ANGELES — Although other options may remain, Olympic Medical Center won’t buy the local Virginia Mason Clinic outright and run it in its present form.
Hospital CEO Mike Glenn declined Wednesday to speculate on those options while he and other medical center administrators query the local medical community on how to handle the issue.
That issue, he repeated after a hospital commissioners’ meeting, is not who will buy Virginia Mason, but that its Seattle-based parent will sell the Port Angeles clinic.
The medical center’s role, Glenn said, is to keep the clinic’s 21 health care providers, including nine family practitioners, in practice if they want to stay in Port Angeles.
Virginia Mason said it will sell the clinic because it had not proven financially viable.