PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Medical Center board, which plans to send a non-binding letter of intent to UW Medicine to discuss a possible affiliation, likely will name an interim chief executive officer today.

The board held public virtual interviews with three candidates on Wednesday for interim CEO to replace Darryl Wolfe, who tendered his resignation on July 31.

However, when commissioners returned from an hour-long executive session to deliberate, they announced they would delay their decision until they could interview OMC Chief Physician Officer Dr. Allen Chen.

A campaign supporting Chen, who joined OMC in January, had been growing since Wolfe announced he would step down. The board hired executive search firm WittKieffer last week to help it fill the interim CEO position.

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