Seattle Children's Hospital
Seattle Children's Hospital is both a community hospital for greater Seattle and the pediatric referral center for the Northwest providing excellent pediatric care to meet the medical, surgical and developmental needs of children in the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI) region. Serving as the main clinical training site for pediatric residents, this 423-bed hospital is conveniently located one and one-half miles from the University of Washington campus in an attractive, residential neighborhood of Seattle. The staff consists of University faculty and Seattle Children's full-time physicians, as well as private practicing physicians from the Seattle area.
University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC)
Located on the University of Washington campus, UWMC Montlake is the primary teaching hospital for the UW School of Medicine, the only medical school for the WWAMI region. This 529-bed comprehensive care facility is consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the nation.
UWMC is both a provider of comprehensive primary care services for Greater Seattle residents and a regional referral and treatment center for specialized medical care.
The mother and baby unit and the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at UWMC are part of the Maternity and Infant Center and obstetric service. This center constitutes the regional focus for high-risk obstetrics and neonatal pediatrics, as well as provides routine obstetrical and neonatal care.
Harborview Medical Center (HMC)
Harborview is a 413-bed hospital in downtown Seattle. One of three primary teaching hospitals of the University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview is a major referral center for neurological surgery, burns, orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation medicine, as well as the only Level I trauma center in the entire WAMI region. Harborview is owned by the residents of King County and managed by the University of Washington. With its mission to provide exemplary care, teaching, research and community service, Harborview is a major training site for medical and other allied health care students.
The pediatric clinic is located in a Primary Care Center housing pediatrics, medicine and obstetrics/gynecology. In addition, pediatric patients are seen in the regional emergency-trauma center and Urgent Care Unit at HMC, and in the regional Harborview Burn Center.
Located in central Seattle, HMC's pediatric service provides general, community-oriented training with special emphasis on continuity of care, health maintenance, growth and development, acute episodic care, adolescent medicine, problems of juvenile offenders, sexual abuse, trauma, burns, sports medicine, Indian health, and care of a variety of ethnic refugees.
Fred Hutch Cancer Center
Fred Hutch is an independent, nonprofit organization, that also serves as UW Medicine’s cancer program. The Center brings together 6,000 people in all, including scientists, physicians, nurses, research fellows, administrators and support staff. Fred Hutch and UW Medicine work together to offer the specialized focus of a leading cancer center and the comprehensive services of a top-ranked health system.
Division of Pediatric Neurology
The Division of Pediatric Neurology is a center of clinical and academic excellence. Originally founded as a program within the Department of Pediatrics, the Division of Pediatric Neurology has been a part of the Department of Neurology since 1995, with most faculty members having joint or adjunct appointments with the Department of Pediatrics. The division's mission includes meeting the health-care needs of infants, children and adolescents with neurological disorders, advancing knowledge through research in the clinical and basic neurosciences, and training the next generation of pediatric neurologists in its residency program.
UW Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh)
The UW Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh) is an interdisciplinary Center jointly sponsored by the University of Washington Departments of Global Health, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics. The mission of the Center is to lead innovative research, education, and service to support sustainable improvements in the health of communities by assuring women, children, and adolescents access to quality health services, and the educational, social, and economic opportunities necessary to achieve health and well-being.