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.
Seattle’s Swedish Neuroscience Insitute will live stream a deep brain stimulation surgery for essential tremor online tomorrow morning, Friday, December 16th.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
The 34-bed facility will provide a place for homeless men and women to recover after surgery, hospitalization or serious illnesses.
Magazine also rates the three Seattle hospitals and Seattle Children’s as some of the best in the nation.
UW researchers Dr. Lupe Salazar and Dr. John Liao among the grant recipients.
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