Swedish Family Medicine has three training sites where residents see their continuity clinic patients.  Although each experience is different at each site, every resident at Swedish Family Medicine has the same curriculum and rotation experiences.

 

Ballard Community Health

We are excited to announce the opening of our new satellite clinic on Swedish’s Ballard Campus.  Ballard Hospital, located in NW Seattle, has long been the community’s center of care with a robust group of primary care practices in the neighborhood.  The residency site on campus will be open in June of 2009.

The site will be a 6 resident satellite program that will be opened with the key principles of an advanced medical home model in place at its inception.   Swedish has designated the clinic as its pilot site for the medical home model that we will then roll out to other clinics after the pilot phase is completed.  The advanced medical home practice consists of a patient-centered , evidence-based, team directed model that comprehensively addresses the needs of the patient with quality at its core.

Three of our experienced faculty from our other residency sites will provide leadership and teaching on site.  One unique feature of this clinic will be the focus on the “medical home-less”.   We are engaged with Medicaid, Medicare, private payers and donors to develop a sustainable financial model to care for underserved patients.  With the broad diversity of patients within our region, the clinic will serve a wide variety of cultural and ethnic communities with culturally competent care.  We see this site as being at the forefront of the coming revolution in Family Medicine.

Pre-construction Panning Video!:

 


Downtown Family Medicine (DFM)
 

Downtown Family Medicine (DFM) is a joint project of Swedish Family Medicine and Public-Health, Seattle & King County. The clinic is part of the safety net serving Seattle's poor and underserved population.

  • Three residents per year (9 residents total) see continuity patients at DFM, located within the Downtown Public Health Service Center in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle.

  • The patient population at DFM is multi-cultural and multi-lingual, including refugees and immigrants from Southeast Asia, Central and South America, Africa and Eastern Europe, as well as homeless people, unemployed persons and working poor individuals. Half of the patients have no medical insurance, and the majority of the rest have state insurance.

  • DFM has a once-weekly procedure clinic where residents perform vasectomies, circumcisions, OB ultrasound, colposcopies, and minor surgical procedures under the guidance of a faculty member.

  • Residents benefit from teaching and co-visits with our faculty psychiatrist and psychologist weekly.

  • The bulk of patients at DFM have multiple chronic illnesses. Residents also see patients with mental illness, as well as well newborns and children, and low and moderate risk prenatal patients.

  • Residents at DFM work with other Public Health employees, including nurse practitioners, public health nurses, nutritionists, social workers and medical interpreters. Within the Downtown Public Health site, dentists, travel nurses, refugee screening nurses, pharmacists and WIC clinic staff work together to build a multi-disciplinary collaborative model of patient care.
For more information on DFM, or to visit the clinic, please contact our Medical Director, Maureen Brown, MD at mbrown@sfm.fammed.washington.edu.


Swedish Family Medicine First Hill
 		  

Swedish Family Medicine First Hill (SFM) is located on the First Hill campus and serves as the continuity clinic for 18 residents (6 residents per year) and all but two of the residency’s faculty.

·        SFM serves a diverse multicultural and multilingual mix of patients from all races, ages and demographic backgrounds. Approximately 50% of patients are insured by Medicare or Medicaid (Washington State’s welfare program).

·         We have about 20,000 patient visits per year providing full spectrum of family medicine including chronic disease management, pediatrics, obstetrics, and geriatrics.

·        We utilize six registered nurses and 3 medical assistants experienced in ambulatory care and residency teaching for clinical support.  SFM has a laboratory, x-ray and casting on-site.

·         Residents benefit from a once weekly procedure clinic, twice weekly ultrasound clinic, three times weekly gynecology clinic, once weekly surgery clinic and once weekly psychiatry clinic.

·         Residents benefit from working with a full time social worker and part time pharmacist.

·     The residency program’s two clinical psychologists provide teaching, patient care and co-visits for residents at SFM.

·     Residents benefit from teaching consultations from regularly scheduled specialists in orthopedics, pediatrics, podiatry, and psychiatry.



Driving directions

Ballard Community Health: Leaving Swedish Family Medicine - FH, take I-5 Northbound until the 45th St. exit. Take a left, heading West down the hill to Ballard where the road turns into Market St.  Turn Left on Tallmann Ave.   The clinic will be on the 4th Floor, E wing of the Hospital just off the central elevators.

Downtown Family Medicine: Leaving Swedish Family Medicine - FH, take a left onto Madison and head down the hill.  Continue on Madison until you reach 4th Avenue.  Take a right onto 4th Avenue.  Continue until you reach the intersection of 4th Avenue and Blanchard (DFM is on the right).

First Hill Clinic:  Swedish Family Medicine is located at 1401 Madison St. (SW corner of Madison and Broadway). From I-5, North or South, take the James Street exit. Go East on James Street and continue up the hill until you reach Broadway. Take a left onto Broadway, Swedish Medical Center will then be on your left. Continue another block and a half until you reach the intersection of Madison and Broadway. Swedish Family Medicine is now on your left. At this intersection, take a left onto Madison, then an immediate left onto Boylston Avenue. On your right, you will see the Madison parking garage.  Please park in the Madison garage, which is located underneath the Nordstrom Medical Tower and has an entrance on Boylston Ave.