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.
Open house includeed self-guided tours of the new ER, medical-imaging and primary-care suites; activities for kids, and health education events.
Surgeons and medical specialists from Swedish and other participating physician groups will provide their care at no charge to clinic patients.
The Martha Rivkin Center for Ovarian Cancer Research at Swedish Medical Center is hosting its 2010 Ovarian Cancer Research Symposium in Seattle, October 28-29.
In an effort to raise awareness of the need for organ donations, a team from Swedish Medical Center and LifeCenter Northwest “Twittered” and webcast from the summit.
The new arrangement will go into effect September 1st, when the Stevens will officially be renamed Swedish/Edmonds.
A specialist in facial plastic surgery will join Swedish Otolaryngology Specialists. Six new doctors will join the Swedish Neuroscience Institute.
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