(The Center Square) – Senate Minority Leader John Braun, R-Centralia, wants to transform The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., into a University of Washington Health Sciences campus.
Braun has proposed Senate Bill 5424 would redirect state resources “toward producing the intermediate health-care workers needed to respond to the ‘Silver Tsunami’ of people whose medical needs are expected to overwhelm the current capacity of Washington’s health-care system,” according to a news release from Braun’s office.
“It’s a push to repurpose Evergreen for a more urgent cause,” Braun said Tuesday during a media availability event…