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Providence Swedish hospitals throughout the Puget Sound region have again been recognized for their overall excellence, as well as excellence in specialty areas in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best hospitals. Providence Swedish hospitals earned a total of 72 Best Hospital and High Performing specialty awards.
U.S. News and World Report’s 2024-2025 Best Hospitals report named Swedish Cherry Hill, Swedish Edmonds, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, Swedish First Hill, Swedish Issaquah, and Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia as some of the country’s best regional hospitals and are named among the best hospitals in Washington State.
Providence Swedish hospitals also continued to garner High Performing ratings in the specialty rankings in this year’s report. Those ratings recognize excellence in numerous procedures and the treatment and care for a host of conditions. They highlight distinction in the care of life-threatening or rare conditions and the treatment of complex, high-risk cases. They are intended to be helpful for patients seeking information about a rare condition or difficult diagnosis that isn’t treated at many facilities.
Providence Swedish is proud to share that our hospitals were named High Performing in the following procedures, conditions and specialties:
Swedish Cherry Hill earned 10 High Performing awards:
- Neurology and Neurosurgery
- Aortic Valve Surgery
- Back Surgery Spinal Fusion
- Heart Arrhythmia
- Heart Attack
- Heart Bypass Surgery
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Pacemaker Implantation
- Stroke
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
Swedish Edmonds earned three High Performing awards:
- Hip fracture
- Pneumonia
- Stroke
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett earned 17 High Performing awards:
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
- Back Surgery Spinal Fusion
- Heart Bypass Surgery
- Colon Cancer Surgery
- Diabetes
- Gynecological Cancer
- Heart Attack
- Hip Replacement
- Knee Replacement
- Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma
- Lung Cancer Surgery
- Pneumonia
- Prostate
- Stroke
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
- Arrhythmia
- Pacemaker Placement
Swedish First Hill earned 17 High Performing awards:
- Gastroenterology and GI Surgery
- Orthopedics
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
- Back Surgery Spinal Fusion
- Colon Cancer Surgery
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Diabetes
- Gynecological Cancer Surgery
- Heart Failure
- Hip Replacement
- Hip Fracture
- Kidney Failure
- Knee Replacement
- Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma
- Lung Cancer Surgery
- Pneumonia
- Prostate Cancer Surgery
Swedish Issaquah earned four High Performing specialties:
- Back Surgery Spinal Fusion
- Heart Failure
- Hip Fracture
- Pneumonia
Providence St. Peter Hospital earned 17 High Performing awards:
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
- Aortic Valve Surgery
- Back Surgery Spinal Fusion
- Colon Cancer Surgery
- Diabetes
- Heart Arrythmia
- Heart Attack
- Heart Bypass Surgery
- Heart Failure
- Hip Fracture
- Hip Replacement
- Kidney Disease
- Knee Replacement
- Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma
- Pacemaker Implantation
- Stroke
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement
I won’t use Swedish because they won’t honor Washington’s Death with Dignity process. They are owned in some way by the Catholics. I also would wonder if they will honor all aspects of a patient’s living will, because I know that other Catholic owned hospitals use an ethics committee to decide if they will honor a patient’s living will, so be sure to check on that. Unfortunately, Virginia Mason is also connected to the Jesuits so they don’t honor Death with Dignity. UW Medicine is the only big regional health provider that honors Death with Dignity. There are other women’s health care policies that may be affected by the connection to Catholics, so it might be prudent to ask what Swedish will and won’t do before you go.
Is providence in Everett (the hospital there) the main stakeholder. I believe Providence and Swedish merged a couple years ago. I assume one has more market share than the other. I think Providence is the ha COB and Swedish the CEO ha. Good to know this, Arlene Williams. Thank you. The UW does honor this as I had a friend who passed there, and I was his person to decide if it was time for him to go per his wishes. So, I know that is fact. Looks like if Virginia and Swedish and Providence refuse to honor a patients legal will then we have a problem…another problem. WOW unnecessary charges which burden insurance rates and the family member left living to pay the bill if not eligible for Medicaid until they are ha? This is another reason some end up homeless and not able to afford property taxes or food or anything etc. What a load of C. You would think as much as this state legislates it could do something about this or would they? Seemingly broke themselves…It might be time to move…I think I’ll see if Mayo Clinic and Hospitals honor death with dignity. Anyone know?