Published February 2001

Crerand leaves
big shoes to fill

Ray Crerand, 60, has announced his retirement March 1 as Chief Executive of Providence Everett Medical Center, its two large Everett campuses and its clinics and other health-care activities throughout the county.

Crerand, with decades of health-care service to his credit, served as the Chief Executive of Everett’s former Providence Hospital from 1988 to 1993 and returned to Everett a few years after the Providence merger with the former General Hospital Medical Center in 1994.

He has played a major role in the development of Providence’s health-care services in Snohomish County, from overseeing creation of a top-ranked heart center and maintaining a major cancer treatment facility to leading development of the new $40 million women’s center under construction at the Pacific Avenue campus.

Snohomish County residents are better off for Crerand’s successful building of the Everett facilities into today’s five-county regional health-care facility.

He will be missed and remembered by many people, who also will remember two of his most frequent messages: “People don’t have to go to King County anymore to get the best medical care,” and “Health-care facilities are an important part of the economy of this county ... caring for those who are here and attracting those who want to live here.”

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