Health Care Provider Impact Statement for Clallam County
Number of docs in 2009: 137. That's 19.2 physicians per 10,000 population1, the eighth-highest rate in western Washington. Washington's rate is 21.2 physicians per 10,000; the national average is about 20.2 per 10,000.2 Washington imports about 85% of its physicians from other states or nations.3
Health professional breakout:
---Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles has 25 MDs, one physician assistant, one nurse practitioner and two anesthetists at its hospital. It also employs 27 MDs, one DO, five physician assistants and five nurse practitioners at its clinics at eight specialty clinics in Port Angeles and Sequim.
---The Clallam County Public Hospital District in Forks employs seven physicians, two physician assistants and three nurse practitioners at Forks Community Hospital and three community clinics.4
Number of current WWAMI Spokane medical students from
Clallam County: zero
Number of current WSU pharmacy students from Clallam County: one
Number of current WSU nursing students from Clallam County: eight
Number of current WSU nutrition and exercise physiology students from Clallam County: one
Number of current WSU health policy and administration students from Clallam County: one
UW School of Medicine clinical faculty in Clallam County: five MDs5
Health professionals in Clallam County who graduated from Washington colleges:
---Olympic Medical Center has three UW graduates; six served residencies in Washington.
---At Forks, there are no UW medical graduates, though two doctors did their residencies in Seattle.6
Port Angeles serves as a residency site for new doctors in internal medicine and pediatrics. It's also a Rural Integrated Training Experience site for students who want an extended training period in a rural area. Port Angeles and Forks also host medical students looking to practice their skills in a rural setting between their first and second years (Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program).7
Clallam County unemployment rate (Nov. 2012): 9.1% (state average 7.8% seasonally adjusted, 7.3% not seasonally adjusted) 8Health care/social assistance employment in Clallam County 9: 2,467 (out of 22,300 jobs). It's the county's third-largest employer, providing about $17.9 million in payroll, about 9.3% of the county's total payroll.
1According to the UW Center for Health Workforce Studies
2UW Center for Health Workforce Studies
3Association of American Medical Colleges
4Numbers gleaned from hospital and clinic websites
5UW Clinical faculty listing: http://depts.washington.edu/fammed/clinical_faculty/listings
6Numbers calculated from hospital and clinic websites
7http://uwmedicine.washington.edu/Education/WWAMI/Documents/2011%20WWAMI%20Maps.pdf
8Washington Department of Employment Security
9Washington Department of Employment Security (third quarter, 2010)