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Health Care Providers Impact Statement for San Juan County

Number of docs in 2009: 31. That’s 20 physicians per 10,000 population¹, the seventh-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 practitioner breakout:

---The Inter Island Medical Center in Friday Harbor employs five MDs and one physician assistant. It also uses the services of two nurse practitioners in private practice. Island Hospital in Anacortes has two clinics in San Juan County. Its Lopez Island facility has one physician and one nurse practitioner. Its Eastsound facility on Orcas Island employs two MDs and one physician assistant.

---The PeaceHealth system says it will open a new clinic in Friday Harbor in 2012.⁴

Health professionals in San Juan County who graduated from Washington colleges: The Inter Island Medical Center employs two UW School of Medicine graduates and one physician who served a fellowship in Washington.⁶

San Juan County serves as a site for third and fourth-year students to train in some of their required clerkships. The county is also a place medical students can practice their skills in a rural setting between their first and second years (Rural/Underserved Opportunities Program). The county does not yet have a residency site.⁷

Health care/social assistance employment in San Juan County ⁹: 338 (out of 5,900 jobs). It’s the county’s fifth-largest employer, providing about $2.3 million in payroll, about 5.2% of the county’s total payroll.