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Health Care Provider Impact Statement for Grays Harbor County

Number of docs in 2009: 74. That's 10.3 physicians per 10,000 population¹, the sixth-lowest rate in western Washington. Washington's rate is 21.2 physicians per 10,000; the national average is about 20.2 per 10,000² Washington imports about 85% of its physicians from other states or nations.³

Health professional breakout:

---Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen has 20 MDs, three DOs, 10 physician assistants and two nurse practitioners. It also employs 41 MDs, five DOs and one physician assistant who also practice offsite in Aberdeen, as well as six MDs and one DO in Hoquiam, one physician in Montesano and one DO in Westport.

---Mark Reed Hospital in McCleary has one physician and two nurse practitioners staffing its clinic.⁴

Health professionals in Grays Harbor County who graduated from Washington colleges:

---Unknown for Grays Harbor Community Hospital

---The physician at Mark Reed served his residency in Washington.

---A Providence Health System-affiliated clinic in Montesano has one UW medical school graduate.⁶

Aberdeen is a residency site for new family medicine doctors. It and Montesano are also towns where  third and fourth-medicine students can do internal medicine clerkships. Montesano and Westport accept students interested in rural medicine for four-week visits between their first and second years (Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program).⁷

Grays Harbor County unemployment rate (Apr. 2013): 12.1% (state average 7.0% seasonally adjusted, 6.5% not seasonally adjusted)⁸

Health care/social assistance employment in Grays Harbor County⁹: 2,277 (out of 22,800 jobs). It's the county's fourth-largest employer, providing about $20.6 million in payroll, about 10.6% of the county's total payroll.