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Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic reports expanded outreach; county to subcontract clinic for co-response program
Summary
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic (OPCC) told commissioners it increased field-based outreach, reopened dental services and expanded operations to Forks; the county plans to subcontract OPCC to run a WAFIC-funded co-response program and will put that subcontract on the Tuesday regular meeting agenda.
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic (OPCC) told the Board of County Commissioners on Sept. 15 that 2024 was a “really good year” for clinic activity and that it has expanded county-wide outreach, reopened dental services, and added staffing and services on the West End (Forks and Clallam Bay).
“Over the 2024, we had almost 14,000 encounters and almost 2,500 patients,” Helen Kerr, OPCC chief operating officer, said in the work session. She said 71% of encounters were field based and that OPCC’s outreach teams now do countywide transports to detox and…
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