Summary:
The Ron Chew Healthy Aging & Wellness Center, operated by International Community Health Services (ICHS), has secured over $5 million in funding from the State of Washington to support low-income seniors in King County. The center will provide comprehensive health care, including medical, dental, behavioral health, physical therapy, nutrition services, accessible transportation, and healthy living programs, in participants' native languages. The center, which will open in December 2025, aims to expand from serving 100 to 400 elderly participants through the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). ICHS has raised $19.5 million to date from public and private sources.
The Ron Chew Healthy Aging & Wellness Center, a new facility aimed at supporting low-income seniors in King County, has secured over $5 million in funding from the State of Washington as it prepares to open in December 2025 at Beacon Pacific Village on Beacon Hill. The investment includes $3.05 million allocated in the state’s 2026 budget and a $2 million one-time grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce Building Communities Fund to support construction.
The center is operated by International Community Health Services (ICHS), which delivers culturally and linguistically appropriate health care in more than 70 languages to serve King County communities, regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. The new center will quadruple ICHS’s capacity to support older adults through the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), increasing from 100 to 400 participants. PACE enables nursing home-eligible seniors to remain in their homes while receiving comprehensive, culturally responsive care.
“King County’s senior population is growing and older adults need to be met where they are with comprehensive health care that empowers them to stay in their homes, and live independently or with their families,” said ICHS CEO Kelli Nomura. “The Ron Chew Health Aging and Wellness Center allows ICHS to expand from serving 100 elders to 400 elders who can access the PACE program, in a state-of-the-art senior care center designed to support their health and wellbeing.”
The $25 million center will provide integrated services for Medicare and Medicaid-dependent seniors, including medical, dental, and behavioral health care; physical and occupational therapy; nutrition services and on-site meals; accessible transportation; and healthy living programs that foster physical activity and social connection. All services are offered in participants’ native languages and are sensitive to cultural traditions.
ICHS has raised $19.5 million to date from both public and private sources. Major contributors include the federal government, King County, City of Seattle, Inatai Foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation, Ark and Winifred Chin Foundation, Arcora Foundation, Satterberg Foundation, and numerous individual donors.
