A healthcare crisis has been declared in Kitsap County, but it’s not about a disease or virus.
The County Public Health Board discussed and unanimously approved a resolution this week declaring a “crisis” over high healthcare costs and insufficient access to healthcare services.
“These included lack of healthcare workforce capacity, closures of local health facilities, and overwhelmed emergency rooms,” Diane Meyer, a member of the Kitsap County assessment team and an employee of Johns Hopkins University, told KIRO Newsradio. Meyer is an associate scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a research associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She’s also a registered nurse.
