Caring with Compassion Across Washington
Providence is the largest healthcare provider in Washington with hospitals, clinics, senior care centers, hospice and home health services in communities – large and small – across the state. Our not-for-profit network includes hospitals, physicians, clinics, care centers, hospice and home health programs and diverse community services across Washington. Our healthcare services in Washington include unique affiliations with Swedish Health Services and Pacific Medical Centers in Western Washington and Kadlec in Eastern Washington.
Quality Healthcare for All
We believe healthcare is a basic human right. We're here to serve the evolving needs of the communities we serve and make excellent healthcare available to all. Our focus on providing our communities with the full continuum of care makes Providence a model in Washington state and beyond. We work collaboratively across traditional boundaries to develop patient-centered practices that help make lifelong quality care accessible and affordable.
Providence Medical Group - Washington offers primary and specialty care to adults and children.
Providence hospitals across Washington are routinely recognized for excellence:
- Providence Centralia Hospital, Centralia, WA
- Providence Holy Family Hospital, Spokane, WA
- Providence Mount Carmel Hospital, Colville, WA
- Providence Regional Medical Center, Everett, WA
- Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, Spokane, WA
- Providence St. Joseph Hospital, Chewelah, WA
- Providence St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Medical Center, Spokane, WA
- Providence St. Mary Medical Center, Walla Walla, WA
- Providence St. Peter Hospital, Olympia, WA
- Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital, Spokane, WA
- Kadlec Regional Medical Center, Richland, WA
- Kevin Brooks, Chief Executive, North Division
- Cara Beatty, MD, PCN Chief Executive, Central Division
- Scott Foster-Edwards, MD, PCN Chief Executive, North Division
- Scott O’Brien, Chief Executive, Eastern Washington & Montana
- Elizabeth Wako, MD, Chief Executive, Swedish Health Services
Community benefit investments are one way Providence lives its Mission. For generations, we’ve offered a caring hand to those with the greatest need in our community.
In the past year, we devoted millions in community benefit to make sustainable improvements in the health of our diverse communities throughout Washington.
See Details for Community Benefit in Washington State
For generations, Providence has partnered with people of goodwill to offer a caring hand of compassion. We collaborate with social service and government agencies, charitable foundations, community organizations, universities and many other partners to identify the greatest needs through community health needs assessments. Then our solutions are reflected in community health improvement plans.
Providence was formed by the journeys of courageous Catholic Sisters who sought to meet the needs of the communities they served. Two congregations in particular – the Sisters of Providence and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange – had major roles in establishing and guiding the health system Providence is today.
In 1856, Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart and four other Sisters of Providence arrived in Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory. Within months of their arrival, they began caring for the elderly, the sick and orphaned children. By 1857, they opened Providence Academy, and one year later, they opened St. Joseph Hospital – the Northwest’s first permanent school and hospital. The Sisters of Providence incorporated their acts of charity in 1859, and word of their good works quickly spread.
The Sisters journeyed across the state opening schools and building hospitals, including Providence Hospital (now Swedish Cherry Hill Campus) in Seattle in 1877, St. Mary Hospital (now Providence St. Mary Medical Center) in Walla Walla in 1880, Sacred Heart Hospital (now Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center) in Spokane in 1886, St. Peter Hospital in Olympia in 1887, Providence Hospital in Everett in 1905 and Providence Mount St. Vincent in West Seattle in 1924, among others.
Providence expanded its reach in Washington by affiliating with Swedish Health Services in 2012 and Kadlec Regional Medical Center in 2014 to help meet the region’s growing health care needs. Further growth occurred in 2016, when Providence Health & Services joined with St. Joseph Health (founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange) to establish Providence St. Joseph Health. The health system combines the two systems to strengthen the Mission across seven Western states.
Today, Providence carries forward the legacy of these pioneers by reimagining the future of healthcare delivery and improving the health of individuals and communities across seven western states. The Providence family of organizations remains rooted in its Mission to serve all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable, and committed to fulfilling its vision of Health for a Better World.
