December 8, 2022
MultiCare to build new neighborhood emergency room in Bremerton
TACOMA, Wash. — MultiCare Health System has purchased 2.4 acres of property at 5900 State Highway 303 NE, Bremerton, to construct a new 10,500-square-foot neighborhood emergency department.
The new facility will feature 10 patient rooms, four observation rooms, on-site radiology services, including X-ray, ultrasound, and CT scans. It will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and staffed by board-certified emergency physicians.
“There’s a critical need for more emergency medical services in Kitsap County,” said Mark Robinson, president of MultiCare Tacoma General and MultiCare Allenmore hospitals. “Emergency departments across the Puget Sound are often at or near capacity. This new ED will give Kitsap County residents another option for emergency medical care.”
The Bremerton facility, which will operate under Tacoma General’s license, is expected to break ground on construction in spring 2023.
When MultiCare Bremerton Emergency opens in 2024, it will be MultiCare’s sixth neighborhood emergency department. The health system opened emergency departments in Parkland and Bonney Lake in 2019, South Hill in 2020 and Federal Way in 2021. A new emergency department is currently under construction in Lacey and scheduled to open in fall 2023.
About MultiCare
MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital, and today is the largest community-based, locally governed health system in the state of Washington.
MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including MultiCare Indigo, Pulse Heart Institute and MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region.
MultiCare’s network of care includes 12 hospitals:
- MultiCare Allenmore Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Auburn Medical Center, Auburn
- MultiCare Capital Medical Center, Olympia
- MultiCare Covington Medical Center, Covington
- MultiCare Deaconess Hospital, Spokane
- MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup
- Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital, Tacoma
- MultiCare Valley Hospital, Spokane Valley
- MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital, Yakima
- Navos Behavioral Health Hospital
- Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital