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BREMERTON The doctors have delivered babies. Intubated patients. Performed lumbar punctures and paracentesis procedures. They even worked the intensive care unit at the height the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, the first class of practitioners have graduated from a new residency program and are ready to begin their professional careers and almost all will do so in the community where they were trained.
It s the culmination of a plan begun at the former Harrison Medical Center to head off a growing shortage of Kitsap Peninsula primary care physicians by establishing something of a baseball-like farm system of homegrown talent. It’s easier to train doctors than to try and recruit them to the area, said Dr. Michael Watson, the director of the Northwest Family Medicine Residency Program based within Virginia Mason Franciscan s ambulatory care center off Kitsap Way. Anyone who chooses our program has a higher likelihood of staying here.
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Shipyard contractor ordered to pay $239K in back wages, benefits to workers
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BREMERTON A Naval Base Kitsap contractor has been forced to pay an additional $239,000 in wages to 26 workers after an investigation by the federal Department of Labor found they had been under-compensated for their work.
It s the second time Nova Group Inc., whose work in Kitsap includes $21.5 million in projects on the Bangor waterfront and $17.8 million in dry dock work at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, has been found in violation of prevailing wage requirements, the Labor Department said.
The workers which included carpenters, forklift operators, pipefitters and electricians were classified as general laborers, positions that did not pay prevailing wages and benefits, the investigation by the Department of Labor s Wage and Hour Division determined.