Virginia Mason Medical Center

Programs: Health care services. The medical center is a tertiary regional referral center which serves a patient community that includes seattle and its surrounding suburbs, western washington and alaska. The main campus located in seattle includes a hospital, an outpatient clinic, centers of excellence including the center for hyperbaric medicine, digestive disease institute, floyd delores jones cancer institute, heart institute, neuroscience institute and urology. The medical center also operates seven regional clinics, and bailey-boushay house, a 35-bed skilled nursing facility. During 2016, the medical center recorded 10,874 hospital inpatient admissions, 22,194 emergency room visits and 861,294 clinic visits. The medical center provided charity care and unreimbursed medicaid services to a total of 5,979 patients. Continued on schedule o.

education and research. The medical center is an independent academic medical center with a graduate medical education program that trains over 120 residents and fellows in nine accredited programs in anesthesiology, internal medicine, general surgery, diagnostic radiology, preliminary surgery, transitional year, urology, pain management and female pelvic medicine/reconstructive surgery. The medical center is also affiliated with the university of washington for training of subspecialties in the areas of anesthesiology, orthopedics, obstetrics, gynecology and urology. The medical center also provides training in clinical nursing education, allied health fields, and continuing medical education. In addition, the medical center conducts medical research through its affiliate benaroya research institute at virginia mason, a scientific research institute qualified under section 501c3 of the internal revenue code. Continued on schedule o.

community health education and services. The medical center contributes to the health of the community through sponsorship of community health education and services. Community health education includes classes, forums, presentations and other programs held during the day and evening in the medical center neighborhood clinic communities and the seattle main campus. The buse diabetes teaching center provides a nationally recognized education program which includes classes covering every aspect of diabetes care including how to support long term health lifestyle habits and avoid long-term complications. The education programs are open to everyone with diabetes and their family members. Scholarships are available. In 2016, the medical center provided 1,000 toward support of the buse diabetes teaching center. Continued on schedule o.