Swedish Medical Center’s Organ Transplant’s living kidney donor team will talk about the living kidney donor process and a panel of living kidney donors will discuss their personal experience with being a living donor.
When fully operational, the facility is expected to serve more than 6,000 patients, making it the largest multiple sclerosis specialty center in the nation.
Hospital losing $250,000 a day as volume drops and the number of patients on lower-paying plans rises, hospital officials say.
On Saturday, March 17, local health organizations are hosting a free mammogram screening event in southeast Seattle focusing on African American women.The event is this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Columbia Health Center, 4400 37th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98118.
Swedish Visiting Nurse Services will cease operating in April. The service provides in-home medical care to about 300 home-health patients, about 125 hospice patients and 80 home-infusion patients. Swedish said the service is projected to lose $12 million in this year, which would put its total loss since 2009 at $51 million. Swedish blamed losses on the high cost of wages, benefits and overtime and low reimbursement from commercial payers as well as “productivity issues.”
Swedish Medical Center has added specialty dental care to the services it provides for low-income uninsured and underinsured adults at its Community Specialty Clinic. The new dental clinic will focus on complex specialty care.
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.
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.
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?
New additions specialize in the treatment of advanced neurological disorders and diseases, including hearing and skull base tumors, multiple sclerosis, neuromuscular disorders, stroke, pediatric epilepsy, and sleep disorders.
Swedish’s new freestanding emergency department and ambulatory care clinic in Mill Creek will hold a community open house on Saturday, February 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Swedish has added four physicians to its Gastroenterology team: Drs. John Brandabur, Drew Schembre, Nick Procaccini and David Patterson.
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