Whidbey General Hospital spent in the ballpark of $60,000 on consultants to help conceptualize a new name and logo.
Officials estimate they may spend between $90,000 to $115,000 more implementing the change, though they say they were going to spend money on signs anyway.
Tom Ewell said he wants to de-escalate confrontations and find middle ground, and he thinks he might be able to do some good when it comes to a discussion about Navy growth.
Whidbey General Hospital and the nurses’s union reached a tentative contract agreement this week, potentially ending nearly a year of negotiations.
Whidbey General Hospital and the nurses’s union reached a tentative contract agreement Monday night, potentially ending nearly a year of negotiations.
Whidbey General Hospital commissioners voted unanimously Monday to move forward with a plan to rebrand the hospital and its clinics under the umbrella name WhidbeyHealth.
The land south of WhidbeyHealth Medical Center is full of bare soil and busy construction workers.
State Rep. Dave Hayes would like to see more transparency in campaign finance.
Rep. Norma Smith wants more “honest” renewable energy policies that don’t rely on China and leave “a legacy of destruction in someone else’s backyard.”
The Navy is considering using sites around the Puget Sound, including Whidbey Island, to train special forces SEAL teams.
The public can learn about what’s new at Whidbey General Hospital and ask questions of officials at a series of town hall meetings scheduled for south, central and north areas of the island.
When Marie Meyers started working at Whidbey General in 1980, the hospital had no emergency room doctor. A nurse assessed patients first, and then contacted a doctor assigned to emergency calls.
Someone is targeting Navy sailors and their families.
An arsonist set a military apartment building ablaze Sunday less than a mile from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, damaging four apartments and leaving five families without homes.
Melissa Alexander and her 2-year-old son were doing of one his favorite activities Wednesday night — watching the traffic zoom by Highway 20 from his bedroom window.
That’s when the Oak Harbor woman saw a state trooper heading north in an SUV flip on his lights and attempt to make a U-turn at the intersection of Highway 20 and Whidbey Avenue.
It’s official: Naval Air Station Whidbey Island is the number one naval base in the world.
The Navy recognizes the top bases in its annual Installation Excellence Awards, which compares how well each are operated and maintained. Bases compete based on factors such as unit morale, quality of life for junior enlisted sailors, property management, health, safety, and environmental conservation.
