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Kennewick Public Hospital District — Public Hospital District, Benton County WA

Kennewick Public Hospital District is a public hospital district in Benton county, Washington. It operates public hospitals and clinics.

Public Hospital District Benton County

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About this district

It operates public hospitals and clinics.

District record
Type Public Hospital District
County Benton
Voting precincts 141
Official name KENNEWICK PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT
State district code HOS030001

Source WA Secretary of State district and precinct files · as of 2026-08-12 · district record

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Recent elections

Election records the state publishes for this district. Board members are elected in odd-numbered years.

Recent election results
Year Candidate Votes Result
2025 Shannon Phipps 17,537 Won, unopposed
2025 Spencer Harris 16,300 Won, unopposed
2025 Rick Reil 15,767 Won, unopposed
2025 Wanda Briggs 15,677 Won, unopposed
2023 Gary Long 17,330 Won, unopposed
2023 Sheila Dunlop 17,004 Won, unopposed
2023 Marvin Kinney 10,966 Won
2023 Scott Carpenter 10,802
2021 Steve Blodgett 20,107 Won, unopposed
2021 Mark Brault 19,877 Won, unopposed
2019 Wanda Briggs 17,169 Won, unopposed
2019 Steve Blodgett 16,844 Won, unopposed
2019 Rick Reil 16,732 Won, unopposed

13 of the 17 races on record here drew no opponent. An unopposed race still appears on the ballot and still has to be certified. It is ordinary for special districts rather than a sign of anything.

Source WA Secretary of State election results · as of 2026-08-12 · 17 races on record

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Other districts in Benton County

See every special district in Benton County — fire, school, water, port, hospital, cemetery and park districts, and which of them share a number.

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Common questions

What is Kennewick Public Hospital District?

A public hospital district in Benton county, Washington, governed by an elected board of commissioners or directors. It operates public hospitals and clinics.

Who runs Kennewick Public Hospital District?

Recent elected officials include Shannon Phipps, Spencer Harris, Rick Reil.

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What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

What it levies, or spends
Special districts set their own levies and budgets, and those filings are held by each county assessor rather than in any state-wide dataset. Nothing here is a financial figure.
Who currently sits on the board
We show election records where a district name matched one, which is 54% of them. A matched election tells you who won that race, not who holds the seat today — boards fill vacancies by appointment between elections, and those appointments are not published centrally.
Where its boundary runs
The register gives a precinct count, not a shape. Two districts of the same type in one county can be adjacent or nowhere near each other, and this page cannot tell you which.

Cite this page

This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.

“Kennewick Public Hospital District — Public Hospital District, Benton County WA,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-12, accessed 2026-08-31. https://washingtonindependents.org/district/benton-hospital-kennewick-public-hospital-district/

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Where this page comes from

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

WA Secretary of State — district and precinct files
https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/
WA Secretary of State — election results
https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/results.aspx