Bay Medical Clinic closing permanently on April 30

Bay Medical Clinic patients are reminded to contact the clinic as soon as possible before the clinic closes permanently on Thursday, April 30.

Patients are urged to refill their prescriptions to ensure they have a sufficient supply until they select and visit a new provider. No prescriptions will be refilled after April 30, and pharmacies are being notified so that they no longer fax the clinic after that date.

If patients need their charts, they should make an appointment as soon as possible to sign a records release and let the clinic know where the records will be going. The clinic will then release the records to the patient to take to their new provider.

No retirement celebration or gathering is planned due to COVID-19. Once the clinic closes, its doctors will be donating furniture, equipment and other items. The clinic hopes to donate some of its furniture to the Community Assistance Program (CAP) for the new, 1,200-square-foot CAP Center that will eventually be built on C Street.

The clinic also hopes to donate its models of the human body to college nursing programs in Bellingham, as well as cloth exam gowns to local nursing homes. The clinic is also in touch with some family physicians to see if they would like to acquire any of the clinic’s specialized medical equipment.

“We’re very grateful for our long and challenging careers,” said Dr. Marta Kazymyra, who opened the Blaine practice four decades ago with her husband, Dr. David Allan. “It’s been a huge pleasure serving this community and we’ll miss everybody.”

Dr. Kazymyra wanted to acknowledge the clinic’s staff in particular. “They have worked tirelessly during the COVID pandemic to keep the patients safe,” she said. “They’ve done an outstanding job. They are so dedicated and we have always been blessed by amazing staff. They definitely are the best.”