Published March 2003

Providence closes
Mill Creek pharmacy

SCBJ Staff

The pharmacy at Providence Everett Medical Center’s Mill Creek campus closed Feb. 28, the latest step in a massive cost-cutting move that also includes eliminating 350 jobs at the hospital and its affiliates in an effort to save $40 million this year.

The pharmacy, which opened in June 1995, filled 45,000 prescriptions last year, said Dave Bare, Providence’s chief financial officer. It is one of four retail pharmacies operated by the hospital. Two are in Everett, and one is in Monroe. The hospital also has pharmacies at its Colby and Pacific campuses.

Closing the Mill Creek pharmacy will cost six people their jobs — four pharmacists and two pharmacy technicians. It will save the organization an estimated $200,000 a year, Bare said.

The Mill Creek pharmacy was part of a $20 million, 70,000-square-foot building at 12800 Bothell-Everett Highway that houses primary-care and specialty physicians. The Mill Creek campus was the first major building project undertaken after Everett’s two hospitals merged in 1994.

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