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Swedish Medical Center warns of cutbacks, layoffs

Swedish Medical Center warns of cutbacks, layoffs

Hospital losing $250,000 a day as volume drops and the number of patients on lower-paying plans rises, hospital officials say.

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March 20, 2012 | By | Reply 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 | By | Reply 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 | By | Reply 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 | By | Reply More
In the news: Seattle hospital building boom, hospital costs and doctors shift left

In the news: Seattle hospital building boom, hospital costs and doctors shift left

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.

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May 31, 2011 | By | Reply More
Emergency care, but not at a hospital

Emergency care, but not at a hospital

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.

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May 31, 2011 | By | Reply More
Free immunizations for school kids in Tukwila

Free immunizations for school kids in Tukwila

Organizers will giveaway free backpacks to the first 200 students to participate in the clinic.

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August 27, 2010 | By | Reply More
Learn to control pain instead of letting pain control you

Learn to control pain instead of letting pain control you

Chronic pain is common and becomes more so as we grow older. In fact, after the age of 60, one in three people lives with chronic pain.

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July 19, 2010 | By | Reply More
Brain cancer: an orphan disease no longer

Brain cancer: an orphan disease no longer

Researchers at Swedish Medical Center hope to develop “individualized” treatments for patients with brain cancer that will be more effective than standard approaches.

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May 10, 2010 | By | Reply More
Seven new physicians join Swedish staff

Seven new physicians join Swedish staff

Swedish to open Center for Hearing and Skull Base Surgery for the treatment of hearing loss, ear disease and skull base tumors.

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April 28, 2010 | By | Reply More
Swedish/Lakeside Speciality Clinic to open in Issaquah Monday

Swedish/Lakeside Speciality Clinic to open in Issaquah Monday

Multi-specialty clinic will be open from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., five days a week.

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January 30, 2010 | By | Reply More
Single-payer advocates to meet tonight in Seattle

Single-payer advocates to meet tonight in Seattle

The Western Washington chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), which advocates a single-payer health-care system, will meet tonight at the Swedish Medical Center’s Cherry Hill Campus to discuss the latest developments in the health-care reform debate in Washington, D.C. Fifteen people will be able to participate in the meeting via the [...]

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July 15, 2009 | By | Reply More