Swedish Health Services
| Swedish Medical Center | |
|---|---|
| Providence Health & Services | |
| File:Swedish Medical Center Seattle Logo.PNG | |
 Swedish First Hill campus | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, Edmonds, Issaquah, Mill Creek, Redmond, (SVNS), Seattle, Washington, United States |
| Coordinates | 47°36′32″N 122°19′22″W / 47.6090°N 122.3228°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Private, Non-Profit |
| Type | Full Service Inpatient and Outpatient Medical and Surgical Tertiary Care, Primary Care, Emergency and Urgent Care, Palliative Care |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 668[1] |
| History | |
| Opened | 1910 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Washington State |
Swedish Medical Center is the largest nonprofit health provider in the greater Seattle area. It operates five hospital campuses (First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, Edmonds and Issaquah); ambulatory care centers in Redmond and Mill Creek; and Swedish Medical Group, a network of more than 100 primary-care and specialty clinics. It is affiliated with many other health care providers across the state of Washington. As of 2013 it has 8,886 employees and 6,023 credentialed physicians.[2][3]
History
Dr. Nils August Johanson founded Swedish Medical Center in 1910 as Seattle's first modern nonprofit medical facility. Dr. Johanson was an immigrant from Sweden and was the father-in-law of Seattle businessman Elmer Nordstrom; the medical center's name pays tribute to Johanson's heritage. In 1932, Swedish opened the first cancer-care center west of the Mississippi.[4] The board of trustees for Swedish Hospital were historically of Swedish descent until the election of two non-Swede doctors in 1968.[5]
In 2009, Swedish partnered with The Polyclinic to implement electronic health records.[6]
In 2012, Swedish became affiliated with Providence Health & Services.[7] In 2014, Swedish formed new partnerships with Group Health Cooperative[8] and Pacific Medical Centers.[9]
COVID-19 pandemic
In 2020, administration at the hospital threatened to fire a physician for wearing personal protective equipment outside a patient care area during the COVID-19 pandemic.[10] The hospital has since backed down.[10] The hospital requires workers infected with coronavirus to exhaust sick and vacation time before they grant them 80 hours of emergency time off.[11]
Swedish Medical Center is one of only two hospitals in Washington that can perform extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and so it accepted patients with the most extreme cases of COVID-19 during the pandemic.[12] The hospital is performing clinical trials of Tocilizumab to counter the effects of a cytokine storm, an extreme immune reaction that occurs in the most extreme cases of COVID-19.[12]
References
- ^ "History, Facts & Figures". Swedish Medical Center. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Swedish Medical Center". Hospital-data.com. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
- ^ "Swedish Medical Center". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved January 20, 2016.
- ^ "Swedish: A History of Excellence". Swedish Medical Center. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ "Non-Swedes Elected To Board of Hospital". The Seattle Times. December 18, 1968. p. 56.
- ^ "Swedish partners with the Polyclinic". Swedish Blog.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)[dead link] - ^ Ostrom, Carol (February 1, 2012). "Swedish alliance with Providence is now complete". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ Lamm, Greg (August 22, 2014). "Group Health ends 20-year relationship with Virginia Mason, switches to Swedish". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ Bauman, Valerie (February 3, 2014). "Providence will partner with PacMed, reveals how it keeps religion separate". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved March 20, 2018.
- ^ a b Richtel, Matt (March 31, 2020). "Frightened Doctors Face Off With Hospitals Over Rules on Protective Gear". New York Times. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
- ^ "'It's Like Walking Into Chernobyl,' One Doctor Says Of Her Emergency Room". NPR.org. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
- ^ a b "'I Felt Like Rip Van Winkle': One Of The 1st U.S. Doctors With COVID-19 Is Back Home". NPR.org. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
Sources
- Nordstrom, Katharine Johanson; Marshall, Margaret (2002) My Father's Legacy: The Story of Doctor Nils August Johanson, Founder of Swedish Medical (University of Washington Press) ISBN 978-0295982656
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