The University of Washington Medical Center is a nationally renowned hospital located
along the Montlake Cut and Portage Bay in the University District of Seattle,
Washington, USA. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the University
of Washington School of Medicine.
The 2007 issue of U.S. News
and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" ranks the UWMC 11th out of 5,462
hospitals nationwide. Many UWMC programs score extremely high in specialty rankings,
including: rehabilitation medicine (3); otolaryngology (13); endocrinology
(16); orthopedics (15); geriatrics (13); oncology (6); gastroenterology (30);
pulmonology (14); nephrology (16); neurology/neurosurgery (30); rheumatology
(20); gynecology (9); urology (24) and internal medicine.
The University
of Washington Medical Center opened on May 5, 1959. It grew out of the medical
school that the university opened on October 2, 1946. It is home to the
world's first pain center and was the location of the world's first long-term kidney
dialysis, developed by UW professor Belding H. Scribner, M.D. |
