Emergency room | Olympic Medical Center
Emergency Medicine • Port Angeles, WA
Ratings by platform
- Birdeye: 3.4/5 stars (561 reviews)
- Healthgrades: 64% patient recommendation rate
What patients say
Patients praise
- efforts by leadership to improve wait times and patient movement through the department
- dedicated staff members recognized for providing compassionate care
- reduction in median wait times to see a provider compared to previous years
Common complaints
- long wait times and concerns about emergency department crowding
- patient feedback indicating they feel unheard, uninformed, or underserved
- persistent low national percentile rankings for emergency department patient experience
- challenges with staffing, inpatient bed capacity, and the necessity of transferring patients for specialized care
In patients' words
"The facility has absolutely NO compassion and I was treated with no dignety... I've been to Seattle area hospitals and this facility needs to shadow a hospital there."
— Patient review via hospitalstats.org"Olympic Medical Center isn’t just underperforming—it’s consistently ranking near the bottom compared to hospitals nationwide, according to its own patient experience data."
— CC Watchdog report, April 2026"Small told the Port Angeles Business Association on Tuesday... core challenges facing the emergency department include long wait times driven by high patient volume, limited inpatient bed availability, shortages of primary care and specialty providers and the need to transfer patients for services not available locally."
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