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Swedish Health Services (formerly Swedish Medical Center) is a nonprofit healthcare provider in the Seattle metropolitan area.It operates five hospital campuses (in the Seattle neighborhoods of First Hill, Cherry Hill and Ballard, and the cities of Edmonds and Issaquah), ambulatory care centers in the cities of Redmond and Mill Creek, and Swedish Medical Group, a network of more than 100 ...
In 1908, Swedish became the first hospital to open on First Hill and was followed by Virginia Mason in 1920 and Harborview in 1931; other hospitals also opened on the hill in the early 20th century but later closed, including Cabrini Hospital, Maynard Hospital, Seattle General Hospital, and Doctors Hospital.
First Hill is bounded on the west by Interstate 5, beyond which is Downtown, on the north by E. Pike and E. Madison Streets, beyond which is Capitol Hill, and on the south by Yesler Way, beyond which is the International District. The City of Seattle provides conflicting information about its eastern limit, beyond which are Cherry Hill and the ...
Grace Hospital was a forty-bed, two-story hospital opened in 1886 [1] and located "by Trinity Church" (presumably Trinity Episcopal Parish Church in the First Hill neighborhood). It was long defunct and the building razed by 1905. [2] Grace Hospital was a homeopathic hospital started by Dr. C.P Bryant in 1932. It was the only "open door ...
Front entrance of Harborview Medical Center. Harborview Medical Center is the designated Disaster Control Hospital for Seattle and King County, on account of it having the only Level I adult and pediatric trauma and burn center in Washington state; [2] it also serves the states of Alaska, Idaho, and Montana. [3]
In 1970, they were the first Seattle hospital with a birth clinic offering the use of a single "birth suite" for labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum care. [ 3 ] The 1970s saw physical expansion of the emergency department (1973), the opening of a department of nuclear medicine (1971), and the 1977 establishment of the Northwest Hospital ...
Cherry Hill is located on a north-south ridge situated east of the Seattle downtown area and First Hill, roughly equidistant between Puget Sound and Lake Washington. The neighborhood of Capitol Hill resides on the northern two-thirds of this ridge, while Cherry Hill resides on the southern third, with East Madison Street serving as the boundary between the two.
At the crest of First Hill, between James and Madison streets, Broadway forms the eastern boundary of the Swedish Medical Center campus and the western boundary of Seattle University. [4] Broadway crosses into Capitol Hill at Pike Street, forming the eastern boundary of Seattle Central College for several blocks, passing Cal Anderson Park and ...