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Providence Regional is a tertiary referral center serving a five-county region that sits on the cusp of intense growth and rapid change. Snohomish County alone, now home to 696,600 residents, is expected to reach a population of over one million in the next two decades.
Providence Regional currently serves more than 350,000 patients annually and operates the Puget Sound’s busiest Emergency Department, with 107,000 visits last year. Staff members and physicians at Providence Regional are deeply committed to providing first-class care to a growing number of patients, and they do an exceptional job despite the everyday challenges and limitations presented by aging facilities that, even today, are operating at—or over—capacity.
 Propelled by the community’s need, Providence Regional has initiated the largest, most comprehensive expansion project in its history. In 2011, Providence Regional will open the doors of a new 368-bed, $500 million, state-of-the-art medical tower. This is the single largest infrastructure investment in Providence Health & Services’ five-state, 150-year history, and will require the largest fundraising effort in the history of Snohomish County.
Once the tower is built and open most acute inpatient hospital services will be consolidated into a single building. The infrastructure will include:
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A 60,000-square-foot Emergency Department will encompass the entire ground level of the tower. A total of 79 private treatment rooms, including four trauma rooms, will be designed to maximize patient and family privacy. Advanced CT scanners and x-ray machines will give medical staff access to immediate diagnostic and therapeutic capability.
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A new Diagnostic Imaging Department will span the entire first floor. This department will be filled with $25 million in the latest imaging equipment and technology, and patient service areas will be clustered in suites for optimal privacy and efficiency.
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The second and third floors will house state-of-the art Surgical Services. All surgical services—currently split between two campuses—will be consolidated into a single site, designed to adapt for technology as it evolves in the future.
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The top five floors of the tower will be dedicated to Inpatient Rooms. Floors 6 and 7 will house 104 intensive and cardiac critical care rooms. Floors 8, 9 and 10 will each feature 56 patient rooms reserved for general medical or post-surgical patients. To improve patient outcomes and privacy, the majority of the inpatient rooms in the tower will be private and larger than traditional patient rooms. Virtually every room has a spectacular view—showing landscapes of the Puget Sound, the Cascade or Olympic Mountains, or a lush, serene rooftop garden growing atop the fourth floor.
From top to bottom the new Tower combines patient and family centered care with the most state-of-the-art facilities and award-winning staff. The new facility will help Providence Regional continue its mission and enhance health care throughout the region for decades to come.
We hope you will be a part of this inspiring endeavor.
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