ABSTRACT
Strategic analysis of Seattle Children’s Hospital’s (SCH) market position and patient access challenges in early 2006 pointed out the need to expand accessibility and services offered to the rapidly growing “Eastside” of the Seattle metro area. The board approved the building of a clinic and surgery center off of the main campus in Bellevue, Washington, in order to improve access to pediatric subspecialty services, create additional capacity for the main Seattle campus by shifting outpatient clinic volume and procedures to the new building, increase SCH’s presence for Eastside growth, and improve inpatient referral volume. The facility would be designed to support urgent care, specialty clinics, outpatient surgery and recovery, infusion, imaging (including MRI), a lab, and a pharmacy, with a 240space parking garage.
