Swedish’s new data center overhaul supports the most needy among us.
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With three hospitals, an emergency care facility, 12 primary care clinics, multiple specialty clinics and a home-care services program, Swedish Medical Center seems like anything but a nonprofit organization. And yet it is. Its 7,000 employees are joined by 1,600 volunteers to serve greater than a half million patients each year regardless of their ability to pay or their medical need, from cancer treatment to delivering babies.
In 2003, the latest figures available, Swedish provided more than $5.4 million in charity care and an additional $27.7 million in other health awareness programs, such as free breast cancer mammograms for low-income women, according to the organization’s annual report. Among its dozens of community outreach programs are free health-education centers, discounted car
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With three hospitals, an emergency care facility, 12 primary care clinics, multiple specialty clinics and a home-care services program, Swedish Medical Center seems like anything but a nonprofit organization. And yet it is. Its 7,000 employees are joined by 1,600 volunteers to serve greater than a half million patients each year regardless of their ability to pay or their medical need, from cancer treatment to delivering babies.
In 2003, the latest figures available, Swedish provided more than $5.4 million in charity care and an additional $27.7 million in other health awareness programs, such as free breast cancer mammograms for low-income women, according to the organization’s annual report. Among its dozens of community outreach programs are free health-education centers, discounted car seats for new parents and donated surgery care for the international community. Swedish is funded through corporate sponsorships, charitable donations and fund-raising efforts. As a 501©(3) organization, any revenue in excess of expenses is reinvested into the medical center.
– Julie Bort
