Who Are We?
We are more than 4,000 healthcare workers at MultiCare-owned facilities in Washington state, and with our union, SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, we are fighting for strong contracts, fair wages, safety on the job, and respect at:
Are you a healthcare worker at one of these facilities and not yet a member of our union? Join today!
Why Do We Care About MultiCare?
Who is MultiCare?
MultiCare has expanded since our last negotiations:
MultiCare continues to prioritize its expansion over investing in frontline healthcare workers.
MultiCare Health System (MHS) is licensed to operate 2,926 inpatient hospital beds across 13 hospitals and more than 300 clinics in five regions, in Washington, Idaho, and Oregon. MultiCare employs over 28,000 workers. Recently, MHS focused on expanding:
8 outpatient surgical sites,
6 free-standing emergency departments (and more on the way),
home health, hospice, and multiple urgent care, primary care and multi-specialty clinics,
2 foundations, a wholly owned accountable care organization, and 5 subsidiaries located throughout Washington,
and a new joint venture with Kootenai Health, Prairie Medical Campus.
Graph 1: MultiCare Health System service area map, in 2014 MultiCare only operated in the yellow "South Sound" area and 10 years later they expanded across the state
What Is MultiCare Spending Money On?
MultiCare expanding into new regions rather than reinvesting into its existing ones:
Buying one of the few remaining standalone private hospitals in the state: Overlake Medical Center and Clinics in Bellevue, Washington(valued at about $1 billion)
Joint venture with Kootenai Health of a 30 acre medical campus, Prairie Medical Campus in Idaho
Buying 30 acres of land near Spokane for $15.7 million!
MultiCare investing into new beds rather than its staff:
Built new freestanding Emergency Departments in Bremerton and Lacey, and in the process of opening one in Lynwood
Expanding the existing Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital campus and relocating several pediatric clinics to a new medical pavilion in East Pierce County
Adding 160 acute beds to MultiCare Good Sam and adding 32 beds to Tacoma General
Two new Indigo Urgent care in Yelm, WA and Hayden ID
Opening up a new inpatient behavioral health unit at Deaconess
MultiCare rebranding
Launched two new institutes: the MultiCare Cancer Institute and the MultiCare Neuroscience Institute
How Much Does MultiCare Pay Executives?
MultiCare pays executives (most recent year available is 2024):
In total, MultiCare spent $22.18 million on their top seven executives in 2024; up 91% on their top executives from $11.6 million in 2022.
CEO Bill Robertson made more than $2 million in base salary. If he worked 40 hours a week, he would make $991/hour. From 2022 to 2024, he saw a 140% increase in total compensation (more than double!)
Graph 2: MultiCare Top Executive Compensation, as reported to WA Department of Health in 2024
How Much Money Does MultiCare Make?
Graph 3: Publicly available MultiCare Audited financial statements 2022-2024, Publicly available IRS 990 forms 2022-2024, MultiCare’s website
Continued Growth from Patient Care: in 2024 MultiCare brought in $5.5 billion in patient service revenue – revenue from the work we do- which is an increase of 46% from $3.8 million in 2022.
Operating Revenue: in 2024, MultiCare brought in almost $6 billion in total operating revenue, a 49% increase from 2022
Operating Loss and Total Profit: MultiCare saw an operating loss over the last three years but each year has been an improvement over the last. 2024 was a 60% improvement over 2022’s operating loss. Still, MHS closed 2024 and 2023 with $514 million and $411 million in total profit.
Cash and Cash Equivalents: in 2024, MultiCare has $642 million in cash and cash equivalents, an 18% increase from $542 million.
Days Cash on Hand: MultiCare has almost 3 months of days cash on hand – if MultiCare saw no additional money coming in, they could still operate for an additional 114 days!