Washington state ER facility closes doors for good

Emergency hospital St. Michael Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., is to permanently close its doors and the building will be demolished, according...

November 4, 2022
10:07 PM

Emergency hospital St. Michael Medical Center in Bremerton, Wash., is to permanently close its doors and the building will be demolished, according to a Nov. 1 report from KIRO Newsradio. The 74-bed emergency room facility was initially temporarily closed July 30, 2021, because of staffing shortages. Those 74 beds will be moved to the troubled Silverdale St. Michael Medical Center, also in Kitsap County and operated by Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. Demolition of the Bremerton site will begin later this year and should take about two years to complete, the report continued.

Nick Thomas