Check out the newsletter Seattle Children's sent to the community with the facts about the hospital's expansion here. The newsletter features a letter to the community from Todd Johnson, Vice President of Facilities at Children's.
Check out more information from Seattle Children's here about their lack of space and desperate need for more patient beds in a newsletter the hospital sent to the community featuring a letter from Dr. Mark Del Baccaro, Pediatrician-in-Chief at Children's.
Read Seattle Children's Good Neighbors Newsletter that keeps the community informed about Children's expansion:
Children's Response to the Laurelhurst Community Club Appeal
This letter was sent to Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Aubrey Cohen from Seattle Children’s Chief Administrative Officer Lisa Brandenburg after the reporter gave Children’s an opportunity to respond to the article about the appeal filed by the Laurelhurst Community Club.
Myth VS. Fact
Friends Point By Point Response to LCC Claims
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Did You Know...
Children’s Hospital cares for all children, regardless of their ability to pay. In 2007, Children’s provided $65.4 million in uncompensated and under-compensated care.
In 2007, there were more than 230,000 patient visits to Children’s in-patient and out patient facilities.
Children’s is one of the nation’s leading academic pediatric medical centers, ranked #9 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and #1 on the West Coast.
As a good neighbor, Children’s aims to reduce traffic in its neighborhood by promoting one of the most progressive alternative transportation policies of any large institution. Employees are rigorously encouraged and provided incentives to leave their cars at home and instead ride the bus, carpool, bike and otherwise get to work. In fact, two-thirds of Children’s staff use some sort of alternate transportation instead of driving alone. That goes a long way to helping improve traffic in the area.
Children’s provides many benefits to the community, including a wide variety of health and safety classes, use of its grounds and gardens, lecture series and other events.
Children’s recently moved its research facilities to South Lake Union and will be building an outpatient facility in Bellevue to further reduce space demands and traffic impacts on its main campus.
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