University of Washington Medical Center - Definition and Overview

The University of Washington Medical Center is a hospital in the University District of Seattle, Washington. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Washington.

The 2004 issue of U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" ranks the UWMC 9th out of 2,113 hospitals nationwide, in a tie with New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Many UWMC programs score high in specialty rankings, as well: rehabilitation medicine (2); endocrinology (7); orthopaedics (9); geriatrics (10); oncology (10); gastroenterology (10); otolaryngology (12); pulmonology (14); nephrology (16); neurology/neurosurgery (17); rheumatology (18); gynecology (20), and urology (27).

The University of Washington Medical Center opened on May 4, 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 Scribner, M.D.

External links

• University of Washington Medical Center (http://www.uwmedicine.org/Facilities/UWMedicalCenter/)