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Under the arrangement announced last night, Swedish will underwrite the cost of a new clinic, which will be called the First Hill Health Center of Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest.
In the original announcement of the affiliation, Swedish said it would “remain a nonreligious organization”. . . it was not clear why a nonreligious organization would end legal elective abortions.
Providence and Swedish Health Services plan to form a new health-care system that will combine Swedish’s operations in King, Snohomish and Kittitas Counties and all of Providence’s operations in King, Snohomish, Thurston and Lewis Counties.
Magazine also rates the three Seattle hospitals and Seattle Children’s as some of the best in the nation.
12-story, 240-bed facility has a football-field size floor dedicated to emergency services with 79 private treatment rooms including four trauma rooms.
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