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Video: Healthy holiday drinks by Swedish’s Chef Eric Eisenberg

Video: Healthy holiday drinks by Swedish’s Chef Eric Eisenberg

Chef Eric Eisenberg, executive chef at Swedish Medical Center, has come up with some healthy holiday drinks to help those watching their weight get through the season’s celebrations.

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Swedish to live stream deep brain stimulation surgery

Swedish to live stream deep brain stimulation surgery

Seattle’s Swedish Neuroscience Insitute will live stream a deep brain stimulation surgery for essential tremor online tomorrow morning, Friday, December 16th.

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December 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Two Seattle hospitals make “Top Hospital” list

Two Seattle hospitals make “Top Hospital” list

Swedish Medical Center’s First Hill Hospital and Virginia Mason Medical Center both make the “Top Hospital” list put out each year by The Leapfrog Group, a health-quality improvement group.

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December 6, 2011 | 0 Comments More
What’s behind the ER building boom? — Seattle Times

What’s behind the ER building boom? — Seattle Times

As health-care costs spiral ever upward, hospitals race to build free-standing emergency rooms and expand existing ERs. Hospitals say it makes business sense, but critics say the hospital arms race is too costly for businesses, government and families.

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November 27, 2011 | 1 Comment More
How does your hospital stack up against the competition?

How does your hospital stack up against the competition?

Medicare’s new Hospital Compare website allows you to compare hospitals side-by-side on a variety of patient safety and patient satisfaction measures. But are the comparisons fair?

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October 17, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Swedish will back Planned Parenthood clinic on First Hill campus

Swedish will back Planned Parenthood clinic on First Hill campus

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.

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October 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Swedish to stop providing elective abortions if alliance with Providence approved — Seattle Times

Swedish to stop providing elective abortions if alliance with Providence approved — Seattle Times

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.

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October 14, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Swedish and Providence seek to combine operations

Swedish and Providence seek to combine operations

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.

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October 6, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Swedish to reduce staff by 300

Swedish to reduce staff by 300

Medical center says tough economy, government budget cuts, and growing Medicare population forces a 3 percent reduction in its staff. Promises to try to redeploy staff affected by cuts.

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September 19, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Jefferson Terrace will house the new center

A place for the homeless to heal

The 34-bed facility will provide a place for homeless men and women to recover after surgery, hospitalization or serious illnesses.

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August 4, 2011 | 0 Comments More
U.S. News & World Report ranks UW, Harborview and VM — 1, 2 and 3 in Seattle

U.S. News & World Report ranks UW, Harborview and VM — 1, 2 and 3 in Seattle

Magazine also rates the three Seattle hospitals and Seattle Children’s as some of the best in the nation.

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July 20, 2011 | 0 Comments More
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Seattle’s Rivkin Center awards over $1.2 million to ovarian cancer researchers

UW researchers Dr. Lupe Salazar and Dr. John Liao among the grant recipients.

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July 15, 2011 | 0 Comments More