Auto repair shop Bellingham Automotive is opening a second location, Burlington Automotive, in Burlington, Wash.
Similar to their current location in Bellingham, Burlington Automotive will provide maintenance and repair services to personal vehicles as well as commercial fleets. In addition, it will also be equipped with a quick lube oil change service.
Burlington Automotive is scheduled to open sometime this spring.
Bellingham Automotive is also extending it hours, and will be open Saturdays starting Feb. 13.
John Beebe owns the shops and has been doing business in Bellingham for 19 years.
State of Washington Department of Health officials approved a Certificate of Need for a new critical access hospital on San Juan Island. The new facility will be owned and operated by PeaceHealth, a regional health system that serves communities in Washington, Oregon and Alaska.
PeaceHealth and the San Juan County Public Hospital District #1 (Hospital District) in March 2009 approved a long-term agreement to significantly expand on-island healthcare services for Hospital District residents and Island visitors. The 50-year contract calls for PeaceHealth to build a new, fully integrated medical center located in Friday Harbor, including a new, expanded primary care and specialty clinic, expanded diagnostic services center, a 24-hour emergency room, and a 10-bed critical access hospital.
The Certificate of Need approval allows PeaceHealth and the San Juan Island community to now begin the design planning for the new facility. PeaceHealth signed a purchase and sale agreement for a 22-acre parcel of land for the hospital in July 2009.
Under the terms of the approved contract signed in March, local philanthropy will contribute $10 million toward capital costs for the new medical center and hospital. PeaceHealth will fund the remaining $20 million, own the property and new facility, and will have full responsibility for the delivery of ongoing patient care, staffing and operations when it opens in the year 2012. The Hospital District will not be providing any capital to build the new facility. As a result, no additional Hospital District tax levies will be required to fund the capital costs of the project.
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