Providence Health & Services expects to break ground in March on a $6.5 million east Clark County medical office building to help address the region’s demand for primary health care services.

Called Camas Medical Plaza, the two-story clinic would be built on a 1.4-acre site next door to Lacamas Community Credit Union. The site is within Vancouver’s urban growth boundary, but has a Camas address. It is north of 34th Street on the east side of the Southeast 192nd Avenue boundary between the two cities.

Providence Medical Group, which treats a combination of publicly and privately insured patients, hopes to open the clinic late this year.

Thirteen people, three of them doctors, will staff the 14,000-square-foot clinic initially, said Gary Walker, a spokesman for the Portland branch of Providence Health & Services based in Seattle.

“There will be room to grow, with space for up to eight providers,” Walker said.

Part of a recent growth initiative for Providence Medical Group, the clinic is its second Clark County facility to open within two years.

Providence opened a location in May at 315 S.E. Stonemill Drive, off Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard.

“We have patients from Southwest Washington who come to our clinic in Gresham (Ore.),” Walker said.

Providence Health & Services has also opened primary care clinics in Wilsonville and Tigard, Ore.

Providence operates 26 hospitals and more than 35 nonacute facilities and physicians clinics, a health plan, a liberal arts university and a high school.

It employs about 45,000 people in Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon and California.

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