Compass Health fully opens new behavioral health facility
Published 1:30 am Friday, January 16, 2026
EVERETT — Compass Health’s new behavioral health facility in downtown Everett, the Marc Healing Center, is now fully operational, the nonprofit announced in a press release Thursday.
The center provides intensive treatment, both voluntary and involuntary, to people undergoing mental health crises. In December 2025, the nonprofit opened a 16-bed Evaluation and Treatment unit on the site, which provides court-ordered involuntary behavioral health care to individuals found to be a danger to themselves or someone else. Those patients would have otherwise been sent to a hospital in Lakewood.
Most recently, the nonprofit opened its Crisis Triage Center on Thursday, offering emergency behavioral health stabilization care to individuals who seek it voluntarily. Community members can access the facility regardless of insurance status or ability to pay, according to Compass Health.
The facility also includes a purpose-built drop-off bay allowing first responders to transport people seeking mental health treatment to the triage center, as opposed to emergency rooms or a jail.
Those two treatment centers opened after the nonprofit held a September 2025 grand opening for the Marc Healing Center, which took seven years to complete and cost $71.5 million, mostly funded by the state. Construction began in 2023.
The center also includes other community services and an on-site pharmacy. The nonprofit expects the facility to serve about 1,500 people per year.
Compass Health previously operated a crisis triage facility on the site for decades but demolished it in 2023 to allow construction of the new building. The new center is the second phase of a three-phase project the behavioral health nonprofit is taking to rebuild the 3300 block of Broadway. Phase one, a $26 million, 82-unit supportive housing facility known as Andy’s Place, opened in 2021.
The third phase, in the early planning stages, will include a 100,000-square-foot building to house behavioral health services, a primary health clinic and permanent supportive housing units.
Will Geschke: 425-339-3443; william.geschke@heraldnet.com; X: @willgeschke.
