UW Medicine Components
These institutions and organizations are part of UW Medicine. Together they fulfill the UW Medicine mission of research, teaching, patient care, and community service.
Harborview Medical Center and its Medic One bays. (Photo copyright Clare McLean/Chuck Taylor)
Harborview Medical Center
Close to downtown Seattle, this 413-bed hospital is owned by King County and managed by the University of Washington. Its trauma and burn centers treat the most serious types of injuries. The hospital also specializes in neurological disorders and orthopaedic problems. It offers primary and specialty care in many other fields. Harborview has a mission to help those with limited access to medical care. It's a training site for students in the health professions and a place where faculty biomedical research focuses on prevention and therapy.
University of Washington School of Medicine
Founded in 1946, the UW medical school is a regional institution serving the states of Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WWAMI). The medical school is located on the University of Washington campus, but has teaching sites for medical students and residents in more than 100 towns and cities across the region. Medical school faculty members also train biomedical scientists and allied health professionals, conduct biomedical research, and perform a variety of public services for the community.
UW Medicine Neighborhood Clinics
To bring the primary-care and other expertise of UW faculty physicians closer to where patients live and work, UW Medicine has eight clinics in King County. The neighborhood clinics have almost a quarter million primary-care visits a year.
UW Physicians
One of two UW faculty-physician practice plans, UW Physicians provides services to patients at UW Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, the UW Neighborhood Clinics, and various other sites. More than 1,100 UW faculty physicians practice as members of UW Physicians.
University of Washington Medical Center, located near Lake Washington.
University of Washington Medical Center
This 450-bed hospital is on the University of Washington campus. UW Medical Center provides specialized care to patients and consultations to physicians, locally and from the five-state WWAMI region. The hospital staff diagnoses and treats common and rare disorders of all body systems, and cares for complicated, as well as normal, pregnancies. UW Medical Center programs include those in cancer, heart disease, organ transplantation, and orthopaedics. Like Harborview, it's a major site for teaching and research.
UW Medicine shares in governing:
Children's University Medical Group
About 250 hospital-based physicians at Children's Regional Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle hold faculty appointments at the UW School of Medicine and are em-ployed by a joint institutional practice plan.
Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, UW Medicine, and Children's Hospital are united in offering treatments, designed from the latest research, for malignant and non-malignant diseases.
UW Medicine also has numerous academic, service, and research affiliations across the region, including Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System.