NEW HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CAMPUS
OPENS IN ISSAQUAH HIGHLANDS

Swedish/Issaquah – the 550,000-square-foot medical campus in Issaquah Highlands, including a five-story medical office building, cancer center, ambulatory care center and comprehensive hospital – officially opened on July 14, 2011.

Located at 751 NE Blakely Drive in Issaquah Highlands, the campus sits on 12.5 acres of land just off I-90/Exit 18. The full-service healthcare campus is King County’s first hospital built from the ground up in 25 years. Swedish anticipates the campus will initially create 900 new jobs for people working in the ambulatory-care clinics and hospital settings.

Phase II of the Swedish/Issaquah campus is currently under construction and will open in November 2011. The hospital will open with 80 inpatient beds, expanding ultimately to 175 beds in the future.

“Swedish/Issaquah is a laboratory for the science of healthcare delivery, innovation and best practices,” said Dr. John Milne, vice president for medical affairs and an emergency physician at Swedish. “Built in one of the largest green building neighborhoods in the state, the medical center is designed as an innovative, sustainable and flexible complex that combines extensive ’green‘ building practices into a high performance medical setting. The key goals are to integrate advanced technologies and processes that significantly reduce energy consumption, cut our carbon footprint, and lower overall operating costs so Swedish can provide the most cost-effective care.”