SEATTLE — The 90-year-old Harborview Hall, across from Harborview Medical Center, is now open to care for patients during the pandemic.
King County converted the hall into a recovery center for a wave of people recuperating from the coronavirus or waiting to see if they have it.
The hall is able to serve up to 45 patients and is being staffed by doctors and nurses from Harborview.
Just last month, the hall was being used as a homeless shelter, which was run by the Salvation Army.
“The county needed the space at Harborview Hall and so asked us to move into a temporary space,” said Salvation Army Capt. Jonathan Harvey.
Harvey said the Salvation Army enhanced homeless shelter at Harborview Hall was temporarily evicted to make room for the new recovery center.
The shelter moved a half-mile away to a former county records building, complete with portable toilets and showers.
Gov. Jay Inslee had stressed at one time the state needed more resources to be available for those whose personal and economic lives were being upended by the pandemic.
Besides Harborview Hall, recovery centers created in King County are in Shoreline, Bellevue and other neighborhoods.
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