Hospital gets $50 million donation to expand

A proposed expansion at Bellingham's PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center just got a huge shot in the arm. St. Joe's announced today that Peter H. Paulsen, the developer who built the Hotel Bellwether, has donated $50 million for construction of a six-story addition to the hospital. The new wing at the Bellingham hospital, to be called the Peter Paulsen Pavilion, will expand and improve the hospital's emergency department and childbirth center. Plans also call for a helipad atop the 112,000-sq