Program areas at MultiCare Health System
Multicare Health System (mhs) is the largest community-based, locally governed healthcare tax-exempt organization in the state of Washington. Mhs operates nine community based hospitals with 1,827 licensed adult beds and 82 licensed pediatric beds. During 2022 mhs hospitals admitted 78,710 patients for a total of 447,312 patient days, performed 58,463 surgeries and delivered 9,474 babies. There were 13,836 newborn days during 2022. They also provided care for 535,418 outpatient visits and 545,137 emergency room visits, of which 1,447 were trauma patients. In addition, mhs, through the community partnership fund supports organizations whose work is important to the Health of the communities it serves in puget sound and eastern wa. In 2022 mhs provided 115 grants to community organizations.
Multicare Health System operates primary care physician practices throughout pierce, south king, and in thurnston counties. These practices provided 558,613 patient visits during 2022.
Multicare Health System operates a System of multi-specialty clinics (Multicare) and a grid of highly specialized urgent care centers (indigo), throughout pierce, king, thurnston, kitsap, snohomish counties, and Multicare rockwood clinic located in spokane, wa. Rockwood clinic is the largest outpatient diagnostic and treatment center in the eastern wa region, with multiple locations offering primary care, urgent care and specialty care. In 2022 the indigo, Multicare ucc and rockwood clinics provided 526,680 clinic visits. The multi-specialty clinics provided 962,120 physician visits, outpatient visits of 367,323, performed 1,925 surgeries, processed 2,992,436 laboratory workload units, 141,185 imaging relative units, (see schedule o)(continuation from page 2) 114,441 oncology relative value units, 149,289 radiation oncology value units, 1,630 therapy value units and 3,500 pharmacy workload units. The gig harbor ambulatory center performed specialist surgeries as follows: pediatric, general, neurologic, vascular, spine, orthopedic, general breast, pediatric orthopedic, cardiothoracic, general bariatric, colorectal, pediatric neurosurgery.
Multicare Health System's other programs include behavioral Health, home Health services and hospice, adult day Health and psychology children's therapy unit. During 2022 the home Health and hospice programs provided 130,123 clinic visits, 40,999 home Health visits, and admitted 2,657 patients and 1,288 patients, respectively. Multicare good samaritan children's therapy unit (ctu) helps infants, children and adolescents who have special needs. In 2022 ctu served 567 patients. Multicare behavioral Health services (bhs) offers a full range of services and an integrated approach to wellness. Bhs admitted 609 patients for a total of 28,530 patient days.