SEATTLE-BASED SYSTEM PLANS ‘HEALTHCARE COMMONS’ IN EASTERN SUBURBS
By John Mugford
Swedish Medical Center officials, as well as government officials, broke
ground recently for a future acute-care hospital in Issaquah, Wash., located
in the eastern suburbs of Seattle.
Rendering courtesy of Studio 216 for CollinsWoerman
Not much has come easy for Seattle-based Swedish Medical Center in its five-year quest to build a new 175-bed hospital in Issaquah, Wash., which is part of growing eastern King County.
Even as Swedish executives and government officials – including Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire – broke ground on the future medical campus in recent days, a rival system, Overlake Hospital, was filing a lawsuit alleging that Washington’s Department of Health did not follow proper guidelines in granting the certificate of need (CON) for the new hospital.
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