From our inbox: Seattle’s PATH teams up with MERCK for maternal health project. Polyclinic launches clinical research division. Virginia Mason and Wenatchee Medical Center form heart affiliation.
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.
New facilities seek to reinvent hospital care. Medicare to hold hospitals responsible for costs of post-discharge care. Doctors give up private practices, take salaried jobs — and become Democrats.
One Saturday evening when Phil Dyer was puttering around the garden of his home in Issaquah, he felt his heart begin to race, and his throat constricted so much that he could barely breathe. His wife drove him to the emergency department, a freestanding facility two miles away that’s operated by Swedish Medical Center.
Seattle residents were more likely to to have exercised, to have eaten five servings of fruit and vegetables per day, and to have walked, biked or taken public transportation to work.
Swedish/Cherry Hill, Swedish First Hill, Tacoma General Hospital and Valley Medical Center tie for fourth place. Seattle Children’s ranked best area children’s hospital.
The key to getting the most out of your doctor’s visit is to plan ahead.
The average cost of care for a Medicare beneficiary in Seattle is 85 percent the national average. Medicare costs were similar in Tacoma, Yakima, and Olympia: 86 percent, but slightly higher in Spokane where the cost was 91 percent of the national average.
These new plans cut out insurance policies and offer unlimited access to doctors and nurse practitioners for a modest, set fee. Seattle-based Qliance Medical Management’s three clinics, for example, typically charge a patient about $65 a month for unlimited access to the practice’s 12 physicians and nurse practitioners.
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