Refer a Patient to the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
U.S. News & World Report has consistently ranked our Cancer and Blood Disorders Center among the top pediatric cancer centers in the country, which means your patient will be cared for by the very best.
Our Cancer and Blood Disorders Center programs have earned accreditation from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT), the international gold standard for hospitals and medical centers providing blood and marrow transplants and other cellular therapies.
Locations and Contact Information
Locations
Seattle Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center teams provide care at Seattle Children's Hospital and at clinics in Everett, Bellevue, Federal Way, Olympia, Tri-Cities, and in Anchorage, Alaska.
Referrals and Scheduling
- Referral fax number: 206-985-3357
- Referral questions: 206-987-2106, Option 4 (phone)
Provider-to-provider communication
- For urgent clinical questions, defined as a clinical question that requires immediate attention due to its potential impact on patient health or safety but is not life-threatening, call our Provider-to-Provider line at 206-987-7777 or 877-985-4637 (toll-free) to speak to our on-call oncologist or hematologist.
- If you are directing or transporting a patient to the Emergency Department or Urgent Care, please call Mission Control at 206-987-8899 or 866-987-8899 (toll-free).
- For non-urgent clinical questions, please consider submitting an eConsult. (Providers outside the state of Washington do not have access to eConsults and may call the Provider-to-Provider line and indicate they have a non-urgent clinical question for our on-call oncologist or hematologist.)
- For co-management questions related to an existing problem for a shared patient, please send an InBasket message via EpicCare Link.
- If you would like to have one of our Cancer and Blood Disorders team members provide in-person or virtual education with your clinic, please contact our Physician Relations team to coordinate.
How to Refer a Patient
We encourage use of our New Appointment Request Form (PDF or DOC) or submitting a referral via EpicCare Link. Please complete these forms in their entirety to ensure timely processing of your patient’s referral. If your clinic uses its own referral form, please ensure all fields listed in the NARF are included in your documentation.
EpicCare Link: SCCN Users and Seattle Children's Badge Holders
No pre-referral workup is required for most conditions. If you have already done a work-up (ECG, Holter monitor, echocardiogram), please fax the information with the NARF. If imaging studies (CT, MRI, X-rays) have been done, please upload to PowerShare or mail disc to:
ATTN: CBDC Intake
Seattle Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
P.O. Box 5371, MB.8.501
Seattle, WA 98145-5005
If your patient is coming to one of our regional or outreach clinics, please send the disc there instead.
For our most current wait times by specialty and location, see our Access Dashboard.
View Seattle Children's Access Dashboard
Additional referral information
To refer to our Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program, see BMT Refer a Patient page.
eConsult Information
An eConsult is a non-urgent asynchronous electronic consultation request initiated by a community provider to a Seattle Children’s specialist, submitted using EpicCare Link. It allows community providers to receive timely, efficient care guidance on lower-complexity and data-oriented clinical questions that may not require an in-person evaluation.
Our Cancer and Blood Disorders Center offers eConsults (PDF) for the following conditions:
- Abnormal WBC
- Elevated Ferritin/Hemochromatosis
- Iron Deficiency/Anemia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Thrombocytosis
- Lymphadenopathy
- Unspecified Clinical Question
For more information on eConsults, including helpful resources and instructions on obtaining access to EpicCare Link, please visit our EpicCare Link and eConsults page.
What Your Patients Can Expect
If needs are not urgent, new patients can be seen in 1 to 2 weeks.
Algorithms and Resources for Community Providers
Resources from Seattle Children’s
- Algorithm: Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO)
- Algorithm: Lymphadenopathy
- Algorithm: Iron deficiency
- Look inside our Cancer and Blood Disorders Center outpatient facility (video)
- Cancer Predisposition in Children: Catching Problems Early is a Gene-ius Idea (video)
- Practical Approaches to Anemia for PCPs & Update to Brain Tumors and Osteosarcoma (CME Recorded October 2020)
- Common Presentations of Childhood Cancer in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (CME Recorded September 2023)
- Childhood Leukemia 101 (CME Recorded September 2024)