Virginia Mason Hospital

Virginia Mason Hospital
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Main entrance at Seneca St. and Terry Ave.
Geography
Location	Seattle, Washington, United States
Organization
Care system	Private
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	336
History
Founded	1920
Links
Website	virginiamason.org/dept
Lists	Hospitals in Washington

Virginia Mason Hospital is a 336-bed teaching hospital in Seattle, Washington, part of the Virginia Mason Medical Center. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Founded in 1920, the hospital operates several accredited residency programs that train newly graduated physicians.

The hospital is known for its programs to reduce healthcare operating costs. Gary Kaplan, CEO of Virginia Mason, took his entire hospital leadership staff to Toyota’s factories in Japan in 2002 to study methods of improving efficiency. In the last year with data available, Virginia Mason Hospital had 22,722 emergency room visits, 15,543 admissions, performed 7,267 inpatient surgeries and 9,973 outpatient surgeries.

The hospital offers the following services:

Virginia Mason Hospital was established in 1920 as an 80-bed hospital with offices for six physicians.

Staff at the hospital have been among the first to introduce a number of new treatments and innovations, including:

The hospital added an adjacent 250,000 square-foot, 7-story building named the Floyd & Delores Jones Pavilion, which opened in 2011. It houses a new Emergency Department on the 7th floor, Intensive Care Unit, and procedure and operating rooms. Also added is the ability to isolate floors to contain any outbreaks of infectious diseases.

The expansion was needed as some of its current facilities are vulnerable to earthquakes.

The hospital is affiliated with several other hospitals and health care organizations in the region:

Virginia Mason Medical Center operates several residency training programs for newly graduated physicians (MD and DO). The residencies are fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Programs include: anesthesiology, diagnostic radiology, general surgery, and internal medicine.