Family Care Network (FCN) has announced that its long-awaited primary care clinic will open in Blaine on June 16. Birch Bay Family Medicine will close the same day and patients will be moved to Blaine.
Blaine Family Medicine, at 861 Grant Avenue, is a 5,800-square-foot clinic with 12 exam rooms, a procedure room, triage room, on-site lab services and behavioral health services.
Birch Bay Family Medicine physicians will move to the Blaine clinic. In addition to the four Birch Bay physicians, Dr. Roma Nagin and Dr. Zafir Khan will join the team in the fall.
The Blaine clinic will start scheduling appointments for new patients immediately. Scheduling for the two new physicians will begin in August.
“After many years of planning, it is exciting to be in the final stages of this project,” Dr. Rodney Anderson, CEO of FCN, wrote in a statement. “This clinic represents our ongoing, long-term commitment to the communities and patients we serve in the north county.”
The Blaine clinic will keep Birch Bay Family Medicine’s number, 360/371-5855. Birch Bay Family Medicine will be closed June 12-13 for the move, but the phone will be monitored for emergencies.
Anderson previously told The Northern Light that FCN decided to close the Birch Bay clinic because it was in a small building with limited parking that couldn’t expand.
The Blaine clinic has been over five years in the works. FCN showed interest in building a healthcare clinic on the city’s old airport property in 2019. After several delays from the pandemic, FCN purchased a 2.5-acre parcel for about $340,000 in June 2021. The pandemic, FCN starting a new electronic medical record system, company finances and staffing issues slowed the clinic’s construction, which started in late summer 2024.
The primary care clinic will bring healthcare services back to Blaine after the city’s previous clinic closed in April 2020.
FCN is a provider-owned healthcare network that has 15 locations in Whatcom and Skagit counties.
Clarification: This article was updated on May 1 to clarify that Blaine Family Medicine will begin scheduling new patients immediately.
