Five major hospitals are integrated into the general surgery teaching program: University of Washington Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Providence/Swedish Medical Center, Puget Sound Veterans Administration Medical Center, and Children's Hospital and Medical Center. These hospitals have a combined total of approximately 1558 beds of which 295 are general surgical beds. Each hospital's surgical service is staffed by full-time members of the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine in addition to a dedicated panel of full-time faculty and volunteer clinical faculty at Providence/Swedish.

University of Washington Academic Medical Center
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The UW Medical Center is a 450-bed comprehensive care facility with more than 100 outpatient clinics and multidisciplinary specialty centers, including a new state-of-the-art Surgery Pavilion. The nearly 400 attending physicians are full-time faculty at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

   
Harborview Medical Center HMC
This 413-bed teaching and research hospital is owned by the county and managed by the University of Washington. Harborview has a nationally recognized level-1 trauma center that serves a five state area as well as outstanding divisions of neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery. Harborview also has one of the top burn centers in the country.

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Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System
Seattle skyline Our VA receives the second highest level of funding in the US. Some of the medical center's services include the VA's first bone marrow transplant unit; a geriatric research/education/evaluation unit; a same-day surgical unit; and the Center of Excellence for Alcohol; Substance Abuse Treatment; and Spinal Cord Injury.
   
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center Children's Hospital sign
Children's is the only regional pediatric referral center devoted to the medical, surgical and developmental needs of children ages birth to 21 in the four-state area of Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.