Va puget sound everett clinic welcomes patients who were enrolled at edmonds clinic | va puget sound health care | veterans affairs

SEATTLE – February 3, 2025 –VA Puget Sound Health Care System today begins caring for patients who were enrolled at its Edmonds Clinic at its $10 million, 26,000 sq. ft state-of-the-art

clinic in Everett—about 15 miles away. “This move means the Veterans who had been enrolled at Edmonds not only receive comprehensive primary care—in many cases from their same primary care

team—but now they have access to expanded specialty and diagnostic services at our flagship VA Puget Sound Clinic in Everett from cardiology and prosthetics to CT scans,” said VA Puget Sound

Health Care System Executive Director Dr. Thomas Bundt.  VA Puget Sound’s Everett Clinic has 32 exam rooms—two are dedicated for specialty women’s health care. Along with primary care,

comprehensive inhouse services include full-time CT, X-ray, ultrasound, not previously available at its Edmonds Clinic, plus lung spirometry (measures how well the lungs work).  Other

specialty services offered include laboratory, audiology, occupational therapy, chiropractic, tele-retinal imaging, tele-dermatology, prosthetics, vascular, infectious diseases, nutrition,

onsite pharmacist consultations, cardiology (three times a week), nephrology (weekly), geriatrics (twice a month), wound care (weekly), spine, social work, hepatology, patient mobility and

mental health.  VA Puget Sound is also working to have physical therapy, podiatry and pulmonary onsite at its Everett Clinic in the future. Roughly 5,200 Veterans were enrolled in primary

care at VA Puget Sound’s Everett Clinic. With the closure of its Edmonds Clinic with 2,700 enrolled Veterans, that total increases to nearly 8,000. When VA Puget Sound opened its Edmonds

Clinic June 14, 2021, it served as a bridge to the newly constructed clinic in Everett which opened October 3, 2022. It was one of VA Puget Sound’s three micro-clinics with “as-is” leases

that serve as temporary clinic spaces in the interim of new clinics being built from the ground up that optimize patient care. The lease for VA Puget Sound’s Edmonds clinic expires April 7,

2025.  VA Puget Sound’s two other micro-clinics are in in Olympia and Puyallup. In advance of the expiration of those leases in 2026, VA Puget Sound plans include replacing the Olympia

micro-clinic will be replaced with a larger multi-specialty clinic there, with the hope of starting construction in Fiscal Year 2025. For the replacement of its Puyallup micro-clinic, plans

are to open a new clinic in Auburn in 2026 to replace it. Construction and lease timelines may shift due to circumstances outside VA Puget Sound’s control. The February move to Everett

supports continuity of care for Veterans whose primary care providers and clinic site will relocate from Edmonds. VA Puget Sound provides comprehensive care to approximately 160,000 Veterans

across the Pacific Northwest enrolled with a primary care team at one of its care sites: two main campuses (American Lake and Seattle), six outpatient clinics (Everett, Mount Vernon,

Olympia, Port Angeles, Puyallup and Silverdale) and two Community Resource & Referral Centers (Georgetown in Seattle and Renton). For more information visit 

www.va.gov/puget-sound-health-care or call 800-329-8387.