Upcoming Operational Changes to Clinics and Inpatient Units

On May 12, Valley leadership shared difficult news with our teams about operational changes necessary for our response to significant financial instabilities and uncertainties created by the state and federal government and private sector reimbursements. We will begin to see more of these changes implemented next week.

Due to the temporary restoration of Medicaid’s Directed Payment Program (DPP) funding, the full-time staffing model rebid is being postponed as we reforecast the impacts of all state and federal funding changes. However, the following hospital and clinic impacts will continue as planned.

Hospital Units Closing June 27: Where appropriate, patients will be transferred to other trusted community-based providers.

• Northwest Pavilion Inpatient
• Inpatient Pediatrics

Clinics Closing: Patients will be referred to other Valley locations and/or other trusted community-based providers.

• Kent Primary Care: June 27 (last day seeing patients June 20)
• Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic: Contract for satellite services ends June 27 (last day seeing patients June 20)
• Occupational Health Services: June 27 (last day seeing patients June 20)
• Pediatric Neurology & Pediatric Sleep Medicine: June 27 (last day seeing patients June 20)
• Renton Landing Urgent Care:  Closed May 12

Clinics Consolidating:

• Medication Management-Covington: June 20 (partially consolidating to Renton location, start seeing some patients in Renton June 23)
• Valley Women’s Healthcare-Covington: June 27 (partially consolidating to Renton & Auburn locations; last day for patients in Covington is June 25)

Clinics Moving:

• High Risk Screening and Genetics: moves to Oncology Clinic June 30 (first patients in new location July 1)
• Colorectal Surgery Clinic: moves to General & Specialty Surgery June 24 (first patients in new location June 27)

Service Changes to Women’s and Children’s Division – Read more here

For more information about these operational decisions, including answers to frequently asked questions for patients, click here.