With 595 licensed beds and the second busiest Emergency Department in Washington State, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (PRMCE) provides health care, behavioral health care and emergency services to a 5-county region stretching from Snohomish County north to the Canadian border. The region is home to a population of 1.3 million people, 13% of whom are living below the Federal Poverty Level, an indicator for an increased likelihood that a patient may suffer from a behavioral health (BH) or psychiatric challenge.
To meet the BH needs of the community, over the past five years PRMCE has designed and made significant progress in building a comprehensive continuum of BH care and has established strategic alignments with providers throughout the region.
One of the final elements currently needed to complete PRMCE’s comprehensive continuum of BH care is the building of a Partial Hospitalization/Intensive Outpatient (PHP/IOP) program. The PHP/IOP fills the crucial, therapeutic gap that exists for patients between lower levels of care (outpatient care, primary care, Emergency services, BH Urgent Care) and our inpatient psychiatric unit.
PHP/IOP programs are short term, intensive day-treatment programs for individuals with acute psychiatric needs that serve both adults and adolescents. PHP/IOP programs are critical because they offer a step-down option for patients who require more support to stabilize their BH symptoms when discharging from the hospital and a step-up option for patients who present to their medical provider with acute symptoms but do not need hospitalization.
In October 2024, Raynier Institute & Foundation granted $500,000 for the Partial Hospitalization & Intensive Outpatient Behavioral Health Program ($300,000 to be paid in 2024 and $200,000 in 2025).