$1.9B in expenses
Patient care: seattle children's provides superior medical care to children from washington, alaska, montana and idaho, serving the largest geographical area of any children's hospital in the united states. In addition, families living beyond our primary service region increasingly seek care from our world-renowned specialists in programs such as cancer, organ transplants and craniofacial specialties. In fiscal year 2024, seattle children's medical team treated kids of all ages during 513,604 patient visits, including 373,775 other ambulatory clinic appointments, 57,155 visits to our emergency department, and 63,637 visits to urgent care. We cared for children during 17,559 admissions to the hospital and 1,478 day surgeries. As the primary pediatric hospital offering high-level specialty care in our region, in response to the covid-19 pandemic, we set up testing sites, held vaccine clinics, expanded telemedicine offerings, and created an emergency command center. Seattle children's received $17.8 million in federal emergency management agency (FEMA) funds in fiscal year 2024 related to reimbursement of costs incurred in prior years to respond to the pandemic.
$370.0M in expenses
Research: because research is the foundation of seattle children's mission to discover new treatment and cures, seattle children's research institute, a division of seattle children's, invested over $104 million in research during fiscal year 2024. Seattle children's research institute investigators are advancing scientific understanding of important biological processes and influencing the practice of pediatrics around the world.
$56.3M in expenses
Education: seattle children's is the major resource for pediatric graduate medical education programs in our region. Residents and fellows from 84 programs accredited by the accreditation council for graduate medical education (acgme), three programs accredited by the american dental association (ADA), and eleven non-acgme accredited subspecialty programs rotated at seattle children's in academic year 2023-2024. Seattle children's has developed curriculum and evaluation methods that assess and assure resident competency in six main areas: patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based learning, interpersonal and communications skills, professionalism, and system-based practice.
$4.7M in expenses
Care network: children's clinically integrated network, doing business as seattle children's care network (SCCN), is a limited liability company established by seattle children's to develop, coordinate and implement a clinically integrated pediatric provider network to promote collaboration and modify practice patterns to enhance the quality and cost effectiveness of pediatric care. SCCN contributes to the mission of seattle children's by promoting health through its pediatric organized system of care that improves integration, coordination, quality, safety and efficiency for better outcomes for pediatric patients within the community.