To be sure, the majestic, 12-story Providence Cymbaluk Medical Tower stands as a symbol of state-of-the-art health care. It combines the latest technical advances with a staff already recognized as world-class, and is smartly designed to enhance healing by focusing on the comfort of patients and their families.
Perhaps just as much, though, this amazing facility symbolizes the historical and ongoing commitment of the greater Everett community and its hospital, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, to each other. It’s a relationship built on the shoulders of community and health-care leaders dating back more than a century, and the rich, combined history of two great institutions that merged in 1994: Providence and General Hospital.
The new tower, which opens Tuesday, represents the largest capital investment ever made by Providence Health & Services — $460 million. We can’t imagine a more powerful vote of confidence in this community’s future.
And it couldn’t have come at a better time for the local economy, creating jobs when employment was drying up elsewhere.
The community responded in kind. Generous gifts, led by a $5 million donation from Marshall and Katherine Cymbaluk of Everett, helped get the project done. Other major donations came from The Everett Clinic ($1.75 million), Phil and Kelly Johnson ($1 million), North Sound Emergency Medicine ($1 million) and Providence’s own local employees ($1 million).
Many other contributions, of money and volunteer time, underscored the bond between community and hospital, as they have for years through the work of the Providence General Foundation.
That’s as it should be. We’re all fortunate to live near health-care providers like Providence and The Everett Clinic that have been recognized nationally and repeatedly as leaders in providing high-quality, cost-effective care. Providence also plays a crucial charitable role, providing millions of dollars in free and discounted care each year to those in need.
Now the quality of Providence’s staff is being enhanced by a state-of-the-art healing facility that includes the latest technology, the newest innovations in patient-centered care, and stunning views that make you forget you’re in a hospital. That’s a pretty powerful tool for recruiting even more world-class medical talent to Everett.
We all know we live in a special place, for its beauty and its people’s commitment to each other. Providence’s new tower stands as a fitting symbol of both.
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