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UW Medical Center – Northwest (formerly Northwest Hospital & Medical Center) is a 281-bed hospital in Seattle, Washington. It was built in 1960 and became part of the UW Medicine system in 2010. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Prior to the merger, a 1997 agreement had already made Northwest the home for a UW Medicine cardiac surgery program.
The UWMC opened on May 5, 1959, and became home to the world's first pain center and also the world's first long-term kidney dialysis which was developed by UW professor Belding H. Scribner, M.D. The 2007 issue of U.S. News & World Report 's "America's Best Hospitals" ranked the UWMC 10th out of 5,000 hospitals nationwide. [ 2 ]
In 2009 the Greater Dallas Planning Council awarded the Dream Study Award to the district due to the district's master plan for its hospital. [5] In 2009 Parkland Health & Hospital system began analyzing electronic medical records in order to use predictive modeling to help identify patients at high risk of hospital readmission.
SCCA at UW Medicine's Northwest Hospital: This location provides outpatient oncology and hematology services. SCCA Proton Therapy Center: Opened in 2013, the center is located on the UW Medicine Northwest Hospital & Medical Center campus. As of August 2018, it is one of 27 proton therapy centers in the United States.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas.With approximately 23,000 employees, [3] more than 3,000 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient visits per year, UT Southwestern is the largest medical school in the University of Texas System and the State of Texas.
Harry Hines Blvd where Dallas North Tollway starts. Harry Hines Boulevard is a major street in Dallas, Texas, (), to the west of Uptown.. It was one of the first 'highways' in Texas, and is named for Harry Hines in honor of his work helping to get roads paved in this part of the state.
Bloodworks Northwest was founded in 1944 as the King County Central Blood Bank. [7]Originally serving hospitals in King County, Washington, King County Central Blood Bank gradually expanded its service area to include Kitsap, Whatcom, Skagit, Mason, Thurston, Jefferson, and Clallam counties.
Northwest Kidney Centers opened three new dialysis clinics in 2018, two in Federal Way and one in Fife, Washington. [18] In 2019, it opened a clinic in Rainier Beach, Wash. [ 19 ] and in 2020 it opened a clinic in Everett, Wash., [ 20 ] its first in Snohomish county.