Published: Monday, August 23, 2010
New Swedish medical center is taking shape in south Everett
Walls go up for three-story medical facility and emergency room near 128th Ave. SE in south Everett.
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Photo by Mike Kearney, Swedish Health services
Large concrete slabs are part of Swedish Health Service's new medical building and satellite emergency room under construction at 128th St. SE near I-5 in Everett.
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Photo by Mike Kearney, Swedish Health services
A large concrete slab is part of Swedish Health Service's new medical building and satellite emergency room under construction at 128th St. SE near I-5 in Everett.
EVERETT -- A first big step in construction of a three-story, $30 million medical building and satellite emergency room operated by Swedish Health Services in south Everett is now underway.
Cranes are being used to raise, tilt and place the building's large concrete walls into place.
Each panel is 43.5 feet tall and the heaviest weighs more the 130,000 pounds, said Ed Boyle, spokesman for Seattle's Swedish Health Services.
The 86,770-square-foot building, which will be called Swedish/Mill Creek, is scheduled to open in mid-February. The property is at 10320 Meridian Ave SE, near the intersection of I-5 and 128th St.
The building is being built on a portion of the property that was the home of Puget Park Drive-In, Snohomish County's last drive-in theater. The medical building will stand near the drive-in's former concession stand.
Swedish's development does not include 5 acres of the drive-in site where the movie screen stood. That belongs to the company that operated the drive-in, Sterling Realty Organization Co. in Bellevue. The screen was removed earlier this summer.
Swedish will lease 55,000-square-feet of space for clinical programs including an emergency room with 18 exam rooms. It will be open 24 hours a day. It can treat up to 35,000 patients a year.
It will include advanced diagnostic imaging, such as X-ray, ultrasound, a CT scan and MRI, on-site laboratory services, as well as primary care and specialty care services.
The emergency room is the first of its kind in Snohomish County because it is open 24 hours a day, but is not part of a hospital campus.
Patients will be treated for a maximum of 23 hours and either be sent home or transferred to area hospitals.
The building's third floor will be used for general medical offices, which could be leased by other medical groups.
The new emergency room will be roughly halfway between the two closest hospitals, about 10 miles from Providence Regional Medical Center Everett to the north and about 8 miles from Stevens Hospital in Edmonds to the south. Starting Sept. 1, Swedish will take over management of the Edmonds hospital.
Four hospitals in Snohomish County currently operate emergency rooms: Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington, Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Stevens Hospital in Edmonds and Valley General Hospital in Monroe.
To date, two medical groups have signed up to work at Swedish/Mill Creek: Eastside Emergency Physicians, which will staff the emergency department and Seattle Radiology, which will provide radiology services, Boyle said.
Sharon Salyer: 425-339-3486; salyer@heraldnet.com.
Cranes are being used to raise, tilt and place the building's large concrete walls into place.
Each panel is 43.5 feet tall and the heaviest weighs more the 130,000 pounds, said Ed Boyle, spokesman for Seattle's Swedish Health Services.
The 86,770-square-foot building, which will be called Swedish/Mill Creek, is scheduled to open in mid-February. The property is at 10320 Meridian Ave SE, near the intersection of I-5 and 128th St.
The building is being built on a portion of the property that was the home of Puget Park Drive-In, Snohomish County's last drive-in theater. The medical building will stand near the drive-in's former concession stand.
Swedish's development does not include 5 acres of the drive-in site where the movie screen stood. That belongs to the company that operated the drive-in, Sterling Realty Organization Co. in Bellevue. The screen was removed earlier this summer.
Swedish will lease 55,000-square-feet of space for clinical programs including an emergency room with 18 exam rooms. It will be open 24 hours a day. It can treat up to 35,000 patients a year.
It will include advanced diagnostic imaging, such as X-ray, ultrasound, a CT scan and MRI, on-site laboratory services, as well as primary care and specialty care services.
The emergency room is the first of its kind in Snohomish County because it is open 24 hours a day, but is not part of a hospital campus.
Patients will be treated for a maximum of 23 hours and either be sent home or transferred to area hospitals.
The building's third floor will be used for general medical offices, which could be leased by other medical groups.
The new emergency room will be roughly halfway between the two closest hospitals, about 10 miles from Providence Regional Medical Center Everett to the north and about 8 miles from Stevens Hospital in Edmonds to the south. Starting Sept. 1, Swedish will take over management of the Edmonds hospital.
Four hospitals in Snohomish County currently operate emergency rooms: Cascade Valley Hospital in Arlington, Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett, Stevens Hospital in Edmonds and Valley General Hospital in Monroe.
To date, two medical groups have signed up to work at Swedish/Mill Creek: Eastside Emergency Physicians, which will staff the emergency department and Seattle Radiology, which will provide radiology services, Boyle said.
Sharon Salyer: 425-339-3486; salyer@heraldnet.com.
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