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At Seattle Children’s, we’re always thinking of the health and well-being of every child, teen and family in the community. We reach beyond our hospital every day to provide programs and services to make children, teens and families safer and healthier where they live. Our commitment to caring for the community is our passion, our duty and our privilege.

2012 Community Benefits

We’re proud to share our 2012 Community Benefit Report (PDF), which summarizes our activities in the community. Through our uncompensated care, health professional education, research and community programs and services, we provided more than $234 million in community benefit activities:

Next Steps

Assessing the health of the community is an important step is developing community benefit programs. Based on a community health assessment, we have identified the following priority areas to work on:

  • Access to high-quality healthcare
  • Coordinated care for children and teens with chronic conditions
  • Health equity and access in south King County
  • Obesity
  • Mental and behavioral health

Past Community Benefit Reports

All files are PDFs

2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 

Contact Us

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