Family Medicine at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, WA

Swedish Medical Center is the largest nonprofit health provider in the Seattle metropolitan area. It operates five hospital campuses, ambulatory care centers in the cities of Redmond and Mill Creek, and Swedish Medical Group, a network of more than 100 primary-care and specialty clinics. It is affiliated with many other health care providers across Washington state, and had 8,886 employees and 6,023 credentialed physicians as of 2013. Swedish has had multiple scandals as documented by the Seattle Times in their series 'Quantity of Care' in 2017 and the website www.SwedishLies.com - documenting the pervasive inability of doctors to read labs, charts, and progress notes or to even prescribe basic pre-cautionary anti-biotics for patients who were suspected of having infections threatening their lives and limbs. In January 2020 nurses at Swedish Medical Center conducted the largest nurses strike in over 20 years - picketing their facilities on First Hill and Cherry Hill.