Compass Health to open new Everett health care center

Published 2:00 pm Thursday, September 18, 2025

EVERETT — A multimillion-dollar behavioral health care facility in the works for years is set to offer treatment by the end of 2025, officials announced at a grand opening Wednesday.

The newly constructed Marc Healing Center, located along Broadway in north Everett, will be used to provide intensive treatment, both voluntary and involuntary, to people undergoing mental health crises. Over 100 employees will staff the facility.

Operated by behavioral health nonprofit Compass Health, sixteen beds at the facility will be used for court-ordered treatment for individuals found to be a danger to themselves or somebody else. Individuals can be stabilized at that facility within seven to eight days, Compass Health CEO Tom Sebastian previously said. Those patients would otherwise be sent to the Western State Hospital in Lakewood.

The nonprofit already operates a similar intensive care facility in Mukilteo.

Another 16 beds at the new center will be set aside for community members going through “self-defined behavioural health crises,” Sebastian previously said, known as a crisis triage center. The facility will also include a pharmacy and office space for crisis prevention and outreach.

Some parts of the Marc Healing Center, like outreach teams and the on-site pharmacy, have already opened. The intensive treatment facility and triage center are expected to open before the end of the year, Sebastian said.

The new facility took seven years to complete and cost $71.5 million, mostly funded from state-level investment. Construction began in 2023.

The nonprofit expects the facility to serve about 1,500 people per year, it announced Wednesday, higher than previous estimates.

The new center will help facilitate modern health care for people in the local community who need it most, said state Sen. June Robinson, D-Everett, at Wednesday’s grand opening.

“I can’t think of a better way to invest public and state resources,” she said. “This is going to provide amazing health care.”

Compass Health focused on creating a therapeutic environment for patients in the center, Sebastian said during a tour of the facility Wednesday. The facility includes large windows to allow for natural light and includes safe outdoor spaces for individuals undergoing treatment to use. The center also includes storage to keep people’s belongings safe while they undergo treatment.

“It’s so gratifying to have created this space which really meets all the vision we had for the facility,” Sebastian said.

The nonprofit operated a crisis triage facility on the site for decades before demolishing it in 2023 to allow construction of the Marc Healing Center. It had “served us well,” Sebastian said Wednesday, but was an aging facility that needed upgrading.

That construction left a gap in service for the hundreds of individuals who used the site annually. Compass Health had tried to find different options to keep the existing service open during construction, but was unsuccessful.

The Marc Healing Center — named after a clinician at Compass Health who has worked for the nonprofit for over four decades — is the second phase of a three-part project the behavioral health nonprofit is undertaking to rebuild the 3300 block of Broadway. The project hoped to add new housing facilities with mental health and substance abuse treatment options.

The first phase of the project — a $26 million, 82-unit supportive housing facility known as Andy’s Place — opened in 2021. The third phase of the project will include a 100,000 square-foot facility to house behavioral health services and a primary care clinic. It will also include additional permanent supportive housing units. Currently in early planning stages, it’s unclear when that facility will open and how much it will cost.

Will Geschke: 425-339-3443; william.geschke@heraldnet.com; X: @willgeschke.