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EvergreenHealth is an American regional healthcare system based in the Seattle metropolitan area of Washington state.It has two general hospitals in Kirkland and Monroe, and several smaller clinics and urgent care facilities in King and Snohomish counties.
Washington was named after President George Washington by an act of the United States Congress during the creation of Washington Territory in 1853; the territory was to be named "Columbia", for the Columbia River and the Columbia District, but Kentucky representative Richard H. Stanton found the name too similar to the District of Columbia (the national capital, itself containing the city of ...
Records of the Vancouver Expedition suggest that Whidbey was an expert and reliable seaman, entrusted with difficult tasks. However, upon his return to England, he provided testimony for Sir Joseph Banks' campaign against George Vancouver (Whidbey was at the time competing with Vancouver for the pay accrued as Astronomer for the voyage.)
The newspaper was established by Black Press as two separate titles in 2007: the Issaquah Reporter and the Sammamish Press. [2] The Issaquah Reporter won first place for health reporting in the Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism competition for 2012. [3]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.47 square miles (24.53 km 2), of which 9.42 square miles (24.40 km 2) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km 2) is water. [10]
Island County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, its population was 86,857. [1] Its county seat is Coupeville, [2] while its largest city is Oak Harbor.
Cultus Bay at Low Tide Double Bluff, with Useless Bay to the South (right) and Mutiny Bay to the North (left). Whidbey Island (historical spellings Whidby, Whitbey, [5] or Whitby) is the largest of the islands composing Island County, Washington, in the United States, and the largest island in Washington state.
Longview Memorial hospital was opened in 1924, but closed by 1943. [2] In December 1943, the former hospital was purchased by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace for $85,000 and re-opened as St. John's Hospital. [2]