Seattle Children's Hospital

Patient care: Seattle Children's provides superior medical care to children from Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho, serving the largest geographical area of any Children's Hospital in the united states. In addition, families living beyond our primary service region increasingly seek care from our world-renowned specialists in programs such as cancer, organ transplants and craniofacial specialties. In fiscal year 2023, Seattle Children's medical team treated kids of all ages during 396,710 patient visits, including 60,469 visits to our emergency department, 1,478 short-stay visits, and 16,161 admissions to the Hospital. We cared for children during 40,858 visits for behavioral medicine, 57,584 visits to urgent care, and 220,160 other ambulatory clinic appointments. As the primary pediatric Hospital offering high-level specialty care in our region, in response to the covid-19 pandemic, we set up testing sites, held vaccine clinics, expanded telemedicine offerings, and created an emergency command center.

Education: Seattle Children's is the major resource for pediatric graduate medical education programs in our region. Residents and fellows from 88 programs accredited by the accreditation council for graduate medical education (acgme), three programs accredited by the american dental association (ada), and eight non-acgme accredited subspecialty programs rotated at Seattle Children's in academic year 2022-2023. Seattle Children's has developed curriculum and evaluation methods that assess and assure resident competency in six main areas: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal and communications skills, professionalism, and system-based practice.

Research: because research is the foundation of Seattle Children's mission to discover new treatment and cures, Seattle Children's research institute, a division of Seattle childrens, invested $87 million in research during fiscal year 2023. Seattle Children's research institute investigators are advancing scientific understanding of important biological processes and influencing the practice of pediatrics around the world. The research institute has also been one of the predominant pediatric research organizations implementing clinical trials that support the assessment and approval of vaccine efforts in pediatrics.

Care network: Children's clinically integrated network, doing business as Seattle Children's care network (sccn), is a limited liability company established by Seattle Children's to develop, coordinate and implement a clinically integrated pediatric provider network to promote collaboration and modify practice patterns to enhance the quality and cost effectiveness of pediatric care. Sccn contributes to the mission of Seattle Children's by promoting health through its pediatric organized system of care that improves integration, coordination, quality, safety and efficiency for better outcomes for pediatric patients within the community.