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Care for the full range of neurologic conditions.

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Locations and Contact Information

Locations

Seattle Children’s Neurology and Neurosurgery teams provide care in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Olympia, Federal Way, Tri-Cities, Wenatchee, Yakima, Bethel, Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan.

Referrals and scheduling

Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Olympia, Federal Way, Tri-Cities, and Wenatchee: 206-985-3121 (referrals/fax); 206-987-2080, Option 4 (phone)
Yakima Children’s Village: 509-574-3210 (referrals/fax); 509-574-3200 (phone)
Alaska Clinics:
- Anchorage: 206-985-3121 (referrals/fax), 206-987-2544 (phone)
- Bethel: 907-543-6513 (referrals/fax); 907-543-6490 (phone)
- Juneau: 907-463-6691 (referrals/fax); 907-364-4449 (phone)
- Ketchikan: 907-228-8321 (referrals/fax); 907-225-4463 (phone)
- Sitka: 907-966-8888 (referrals/fax); 907-966-8504 (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 neurologist or neurosurgeon.
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).
To reach our Epilepsy Care Coordinators, call 206-987-7474 or email [email protected]. They can support questions related to referrals, care coordination and cultural navigation for patients referred to our epilepsy program providers.
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 neurology provider.)
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 Neurology or Neurosurgery 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

EpicCare Link: All Others

No pre-referral workup is required for most conditions. If you have already done a work-up (EEG, CT, MRI, X-rays), 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:

Seattle Children’s Neurosciences Center
MS OA.9.220
PO Box 5371
Seattle, WA 98105

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

For headaches and tics: Please provide notes about your prior treatment plan, brain imaging report if performed and the reason for referring your patient to specialty care. We may not schedule an appointment without this information due to capacity constraints and the need to prioritize access for the most acute needs. To learn about managing headache and tic in primary care, please see “Resources for Providers” below.
For macrocephaly and babies under 1 year old being referred for neurosurgery: Send head circumference and head growth charts.
For first seizure patients: No call to the Provider-to-Provider Line is necessary, as appointments are scheduled with urgency. Include the date and description of the seizure activity and ED/urgent care reports if applicable. Read First Seizure: Understanding Next Steps for Patients and Families.
For developmental delay: Include complete developmental assessments, including parent questionnaires, and any developmental testing reports, for example, therapy evaluations and individualized education plan (IEP), if completed.
For concussion: If your patient has only ongoing headaches following concussion, they are appropriate for neurology evaluation. Patients having symptoms beyond headaches may be more appropriate for our Concussion Program in Orthopedics or Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic in Rehabilitation Medicine. Call our Clinical Intake Nurses at 206-987-2080, option 4 if you need assistance.
Hypotonia patients under 12 months of age: Will be scheduled in our Neurology Clinic on a next-available basis. If there are additional concerns about progressive weakness, lack of reflexes, or elevated muscle enzymes (creatine kinase), then they will be seen as soon as possible in our Neuromuscular Clinic.

Patients with these conditions are seen by other programs:

Autism spectrum disorder: Autism Center
ADHD and behavioral issues: Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Craniofacial anomalies: Craniofacial Center
Learning disability evaluations: University of Washington’s LEARN Clinic

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 Neurology program offers eConsults for the following conditions:

Headache/Migraine
Seizure/Spells
Tics/Tourette/Abnormal Movements
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

Once we receive your referral, your patient can call us to schedule an appointment. If the patient’s condition is urgent, we will call them directly to schedule. We review openings and the patient referral queue daily.