McKinstry Gifts $500K to Support Seattle Children’s Tri-Cities Clinic and Expand Access to Care for Kids in Rural Washington
7.28.25 | Ashley Speller
Seattle Children’s Tri-Cities Clinic in Kennewick recently received a generous donation of $500,000 from McKinstry, a national construction and energy services firm headquartered in Seattle, to help expand access to care for kids throughout Central and Eastern Washington.
The Tri-Cities Clinic is one of Seattle Children’s six specialty regional clinics ensuring children across the state have access to care closer to home regardless of their family’s zip code or ability to pay.
“For families outside Western Washington, traveling back and forth to Seattle Children’s [main campus] can come with transportation headaches, missed school, extended time off work and the risk of losing their job or their home,” explained Dean Allen, CEO of McKinstry. “Regional clinics like Seattle Children’s Tri-Cities Clinic bring expert care directly to kids where they live.”
Since 2018 the clinic has provided over 34,000 patient visits, with volumes continuing to grow by approximately 10-11% per year due to increased demand. In 2023, the clinic treated over 3,000 patients within 5,700 visits, and in 2024 visits exceeded over 6,700.
The philanthropic gift by McKinstry will be utilized by Seattle Children’s over the next 5 years to increase available space in the Tri-Cities Clinic by expanding to add exam rooms and a lab — bringing ancillary services like phlebotomy and lab processing in-house. This new interior lab space will additionally enable patients to have faster access to results from the clinic’s nearly 1,750 monthly labs ordered each month.
“We are grateful for McKinstry’s support of Seattle Children’s mission to provide hope, care and cures to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible,” said Dr. Jeff Sperring, CEO of Seattle Children’s. “This generous gift will enable us to expand Seattle Children’s Tri-Cities Clinic and increase access to specialty pediatric care services that are closer to home for patients and families in the growing region.”
The Tri-Cities Clinic offers services in more than 15 medical specialties by the same providers who take care of children at the hospital in Seattle including cancer care, cardiology, neurology, fetal care and more, and provides free interpreting for languages other than English, Deaf and hard-of-hearing patients and families.
“Kids are our future, and I believe we should try to make an impact in the communities we live in day by day,” added Allen. “Thousands of us at McKinstry are personally connected to Seattle Children's because it’s a community resource for our children. McKinstry’s support of Seattle Children’s aligns with our core value of putting people first and treating people like family, and I don't know a better way to do that than looking after the children in our community.”