September 22, 2025

Compass Health opens Marc Healing Center in Everett

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The 70,000-square-foot Marc Healing Center offers triage, crisis prevention, and intensive outpatient behavioral health services.

Compass Health cut the ribbon last week for its Marc Healing Center, a new facility for intensive behavioral health services at 3322 Broadway Ave. in Everett.

The 70,000-square-foot building has a 16-bed evaluation and treatment (E&T) unit, a 16-bed crisis triage center, intensive outpatient behavioral health services, an on-site pharmacy, and space for teams to offer crisis prevention, outreach and community engagement.

Compass expects the facility will serve 1,500 individuals through more than 30,000 points of service each year, addressing and preventing mental health crises and other high-acuity needs to help lessen the demand on first responders, law enforcement and area hospitals.

Designed by Ankrom Moisan Architects and built by general contractor BNBuilders, the building features innovative finishes, room layouts with natural light, and access to secure outdoor spaces, which were chosen specifically to promote healing and recovery in a safe environment.

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Compass expects the facility will serve 1,500 individuals through more than 30,000 points of service each year.

Lotus Development Partners led the project as finance, development and construction manager. Other team members include KPFF, structural engineer; Harmsen, civil engineer; Bush Roed Hitchings, surveyor; Sider + Byers, mechanical and electrical engineer; SiteWorkshop, landscape design; RDH, envelope consultant; and RWDI, LEED consultant.

The $71 million project saw wide support from public and private sources. A significant investment came from the state of Washington, along with contributions from Snohomish County and the city of Everett. Several organizations facilitated investment under the federal New Markets Tax Credit program, led by J.P. Morgan, Accion Opportunity Fund and Corporation for Supportive Housing along with Craft3, Capital Impact Partners and Nonprofit Finance Fund. Coastal Community bank provided permanent financing, and early seed capital came from Primary Care Development Corporation.

Compass Health's first-ever capital campaign also played a major role, raising nearly $12 million. Contribution sources included the Sunderland Foundation, Coastal Community Bank, the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the Norcliffe Foundation, and Premera Blue Cross. The organization received federal Human Resources and Services Administration funding with the support of U.S. Representative Rick Larsen, as well as a number of gifts from individual and family donors.

“What began as a bold vision seven years ago has now become a reality, and that's all thanks to the community, who came together with shared purpose to support behavioral health care across our region,” said Compass Health CEO Tom Sebastian. “Through the Marc Healing Center, we look forward to bettering the lives of our neighbors, building paths of recovery for those struggling, and being a pillar for our community partners to lean on.”

The facility is named for Marcelene “Marc” Lowes. Lowes has worked with Compass Health for more than 40 years, much of it with the Snohomish County Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). Compass Health described her as “a trusted figure for her clients and team.”

Snohomish County's adult IOP, along with Expanded Community Services (ECS), Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT), and a pharmacy operated by Genoa Healthcare, began seeing clients in the facility in August.

Compass expects to launch on-site E&T and crisis triage operations this fall. Together, it says the programs are designed to alleviate burdens on emergency services.