Sea Mar Community Health Centers

In fy 2023, Sea Mar Community Health Centers was one of the leading providers of medical, dental, behavioral Health, social, and housing services for low-income, uninsured, and otherwise underserved individuals and families in western Washington state. Sea Mar's network of services spans 18 counties, including adams, chelan, clallam, clark, cowlitz, franklin, grant, grays harbor, island, king, pierce, skagit, skamania, snohomish, spokane, thurston, whatcom and yakima. Together, in fy 2023 Sea Mar served approximately 300,000 patients with over 1.1 million encounters. These services reach the most vulnerable members of these western Washington communities, with 85% living below the 200% federal poverty level. Sea Mar's 35 medical clinics served approximately 150,000 patients with over 498,000 visits in fy 2023. Comprehensive medical services run the full spectrum from family medicine, obstetrics, and preventive care to internal medicine, chronic disease management, and geriatrics. Additionally, Sea Mar's medical providers have privileges in Community hospitals throughout the agency's service area, ensuring inpatient care for patients as needed. Sea Mar's 30 dental clinics served approximately 70,000 patients with over 199,000 visits in fy 2023. Dental services include pediatric and adult oral Health exams and education, cleanings, fillings, extractions, diagnosis, and treatment of various dental conditions, preventive oral Health care including fluoride treatments and dental sealants, consultations for crowns and bridges, and some orthodontics.sea Mar's medical and dental clinics offer same-day appointments for emergency or urgent care, and the agency has lab, x-ray, and pharmacy services available in some locations throughout its service area. Sea Mar follows a patient-centered medical home model of care and focuses on population Health management. To serve its clients best, Sea Mar provides all services in english, spanish and other languages as needed. All of Sea Mar's clients are served regardless of insurance status or ability to pay for services.behavioral Health care services are among the most challenging for vulnerable populations to access, due to stigma, cost, and the limited availability of such services for low-income, uninsured, homeless, or non-english speaking individuals. Sea Mar's outpatient behavioral Health clinics provide multi-lingual, culturally appropriate mental Health and chemical dependency treatment support to clients regardless of insurance status or ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's 39 outpatient behavioral Health clinics served approximately 19,000 clients with over 215,542 visits in fy 2023. During the fiscal year, Sea Mar continues to integrate its behavioral Health services with primary care wherever possible, ensuring that patients in need are accessing all options for achieving positive Health outcomes. During the pandemic, Sea Mar's behavioral Health services adapted to hybrid telehealth and in-person service delivery models to avoid any service disruptions and to ensure client needs continuously are met.

Chemical dependency inpatient treatment Centers. Sea Mar goes beyond the outpatient treatment model to provide longer-term inpatient chemical dependency treatment for low-income, uninsured, or under-insured youth and adults in four facilities offering 100 beds throughout its service area. These treatment Centers offer bilingual, culturally appropriate services to people with few other options for such treatment. In fye 2023, Sea Mar's inpatient treatment Centers provided 27,629 patient days to approximately 457 individuals with safe detox, evidence-based treatment, and guidance during re-entry, including transition to Sea Mar's outpatient behavioral Health services as needed. Nearly all of these patients were living below the 200% federal poverty level.

Preventive Health services (phs). Sea Mar's multi-functional phs team covers three major branches of service. Health education includes programs that provide patients with nutritional counseling and guidance, weight control, family planning, smoking cessation and chronic disease management support, and maternity support services (mss), which supports pregnant women and new mothers to ensure healthy pregnancy and infancy outcomes. In fye 2023, Sea Mar's mss, nutrition, and Health education programs served 21,000 patients with 22,000 visits. Sea Mar's women, infants, and children (wic) program is the largest private wic provider in the state of Washington, serving 33,000 clients with approximately 104,846 encounters in fy 2023. The program provides food vouchers alongside Health, breastfeeding, and nutrition education for pregnant women, new mothers, and young children.

Cannon house assisted living facility. Cannon house is located in the diverse central district neighborhood of seattle and provides safe and affordable assisted living services for seniors and others in need of residential care. The facility houses around 100 residents and focuses on helping residents maintain independence and a high quality of life. Sea Mar provided 23,760 patient days to cannon house residents in fye 2023. Nearly all cannon house residents are medicaid/medicare recipients living below the 200% federal poverty level.

Managed care. The managed care department has made Sea Mar a leader in the state of Washington for providing Health insurance enrollment information and assistance to Community members in need. In fye 2023, Sea Mar's managed care outreach and enrollment team served approximately 56,000 unduplicated individuals with information about insurance options and enrollment in insurance plans. Services provided are in person and over the phone, in english, spanish, and other languages as needed to serve the client. Patients who become medicaid beneficiaries and enter into managed care services with Sea Mar receive monitoring and outreach to ensure they are overcoming any barriers to accessing the services they need, and successfully engaging in treatment and follow-up to reach the positive Health outcomes established between the patient and their provider. There are over 126,429 patients assigned to Sea Mar in the managed care services program.

Beacon hill i & ii housing. In 2022, using public funds from the city of seattle and the state of Washington, Sea Mar purchased a newly constructed 42-unit studio apartment building in the beacon hill neighborhood of seattle. One apartment is set aside for the office and another apartment is set aside for a live-in property manager. The apartments are income restricted and half of the apartments can serve households no more than 50% ami and the other half no more than 30% ami. However, most of the tenants have zero income because these apartments target the homeless population and provide housing specifically for women who were homeless at the time of application. Most of these applicants have experienced chronic homelessness throughout much of their lives. Residents have access to on-site case management services that can assist them in accessing healthcare, counseling, and financial assistance, as well as education, job training, and employment opportunities. In 2023, using public funds from the city of seattle and the state of Washington, Sea Mar purchased another newly constructed apartment building in the beacon hill neighborhood of seattle. This building has 39 apartments which are exclusively studios and there is one apartment set aside for a live-in property manager. These apartments are income restricted and half of the apartments can serve households no more than 50% ami and the other half no more than 30% ami. However, most of the tenants have zero income because these apartments target the homeless population and provide housing specifically for men, women, and small families who were homeless at the time of application. Residents have access to on-site case management services that can assist them in accessing healthcare, counseling, and financial assistance, as well as education, job training, and employment opportunities.

Sea Mar properties Washington i llc. Across nine different properties located in seven counties on both sides of the cascade mountains in Washington state, Sea Mar affordable housing provides clean, safe, and affordable housing to low-income families, individuals, seniors, and disabled persons living within rural communities. These nine properties consist of 285 apartment homes. Two of the properties are set aside for senior and disabled populations. The other seven properties are set aside for families and individuals. Of the 285 homes, 244 of them have project-based rental assistance which enables our tenants to not have to pay more than 40% of their income on the rent. This subsidy assistance is a major benefit for our tenants and provides a measure of stability and security for operations, as well. Each property is proudly owned and operated by Sea Mar Community Health Centers.

Other services. Sea Mar meets its mission by providing comprehensive services with a specialization in serving the latino Community through a wide variety of programs beyond the core healthcare services. These programs focus on addressing the social determinants of Health by providing various social supports that give individuals and families the support and connections they need to maintain well-being. These programs include affordable housing, nutrition, and services outreach for latino senior citizens, cancer screening programs, Community events, citizenship classes, childcare, civic engagement, education, youth educational achievement and leadership programs, spanish-language radio programming, a boxing club for at-risk youth, home care and more. Through these programs, clients achieve independence and the skills necessary to succeed in their lives, which translates to success in achieving positive Health outcomes over the long term.