About Peninsula Community Health Services

How You Can Get Service

We accept Washington Apple Health (Medicaid), Medicare, Veterans Choice Program, TriCare/CHAMPVA, US Family Healthplan, and most major insurances. Someone who is uninsured or underinsured qualifies for a sliding fee scale, where someone is charged for services based on income and insurance coverage. To learn more, reference our Patient Guide.

Our Community

We’re dedicated to tailoring our services to our community, and constantly look for ways to improve our organization to better serve the residents of the Kitsap, Mason & rural Pierce County area. The majority of our Board of Director members are patients of PCHS. You can become a board member, too, by filling out our application.

PCHS staff participates in various community planning committees and events to promote a healthy community here in the Kitsap, Mason, rural Pierce and Olympic Peninsula areas.

*Peninsula Community Health Services is a Health Center Program grantee under 42 U.S.C. 254b, and a deemed Public Health Service employee under 42 U.S.C. 233(g)-(n).

*Peninsula Community Health Services has been awarded Patient-Centered Medical and Dental Home recognition by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

*PCHS complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.

Discrimination Is Against the Law

Peninsula Community Health Services complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not

discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex (consistent with the

scope of sex discrimination described at 45 CFR § 92.101(a)(2)).

Peninsula Community Health Services does not exclude people or treat them less favorably because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.

Peninsula Community Health Services:

• Provides people with disabilities reasonable modifications and free appropriate auxiliary aids and services to communicate effectively with us, such as:
  • Qualified sign language interpreters
  • Written information in other formats (large print, audio, accessible electronic formats, other formats).
• Provides free language assistance services to people whose primary language is not English, which may include:
  • Qualified interpreters
  • Information written in other languages.

If you need reasonable modifications, appropriate auxiliary aids and services, or language assistance services, any Peninsula Community Health Services staff member is available to help you, or you can contact the Section 1557 Coordinator for assistance.

If you believe that Peninsula Community Health Services has failed to provide these services or discriminated in another way on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex, you can file a grievance with:

Section 1557 Coordinator

PO Box 960, Bremerton, WA 98337

Phone: 360-478-2366

Fax: 360-373-2096

agbland@pchsweb.org

www.pchsweb.org

You can file a grievance in person or by mail, fax, or email. If you need help filing a grievance, any Peninsula Community Health Services staff member is available to help you.

You can also file a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights, electronically through the Office for Civil Rights Complaint Portal, available at https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/portal/lobby.jsf, or by mail or phone at:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

200 Independence Avenue, SW

Room 509F, HHH Building

Washington, D.C. 20201

1-800-368-1019, 800-537-7697 (TDD)

Complaint forms are available at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/office/file/index.html

Board of Directors

• Evelyn Hetrick – President, Patient Member
• Al Pinkham – Vice President, Patient Member
• Christopher Cook – Treasurer, Community Member
• Susan Astle – Secretary, Patient Member
• Mary Berglind – Community Member
• Monica Bernhard – Community Member, Past President
• Scott Copass – Patient Member
• Jeanell Rasmussen – Community Member
• Tamasipani Sousou – Patient Member
• Ron Valencia – Patient Member
• David Windom – Community Member
• Lolita Afalla - Patient Representative
• Yolanda Fong - Patient Representative
• Gary Gartin - Patient Representative

Annual Reports

• 2023
  2022
  2021
  2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016

Whistleblower Reporting

Please CLICK HERE to go to the Whistleblower information and reporting page.

For general inquiries, go to our Contact Us page.