Community Health and Benefit

Caring for Our Community

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.

Community Benefits

We’re proud to share our 2019/2020 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 $287 million in community benefit activities:

• $184,199,000 in uncompensated care
• $33,994,000 in health professions education
• $56,031,000 in research
• $13,537,000 in community programs and services

Community Health and Benefit Programs

Our commitment to caring for the community is our passion, our duty, and our privilege. We advocate for children and their families and offer resources and services where they live. Our 2020-2022 Community Benefit priority areas are:

• Mental and Behavioral Health
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Suicide and Injury Prevention
  • Preventing Suicide
  • Bike Helmet Safety
  • Car Seat Safety
  • Child Abuse Prevention
  • Water Safety
• Economic Security
• Access to Healthcare
• Adolescent Health
  • Seattle Children’s Pre-Teen Classes
  • Prevention Works in Seattle
  • Gender Clinic
• Family Education and Resources

Next Steps

Assessing the health of the community and crafting strategies to improve pediatric health are important steps in developing community benefit programs and resulting Community Health Implementation Strategies. The results of each assessment help us focus our efforts on the most urgent community health needs. Please click here for more information.

Past Community Benefit Reports

All files are PDFs.

• 2018-2019
• 2017–2018
• 2016–2017