Your partners in health
Whether a patient is a four-year-old with an earache or a 50-year-old in need of colon-cancer screening, primary-care providers deliver the basic diagnostic, treatment and preventive medical care that patients most often need. These are the practitioners on the front lines of patient care who respond to a broad range of medical problems for people throughout their lives. Your primary-care provider is your partner in helping you stay well, treating you when you’re sick and referring you to a specialist when needed.
Primary-care providers are an important part of the health-care team at Swedish. To offer the community the most comprehensive care, Swedish maintains a variety of relationships with primary-care providers, including:
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Independent private practitioners who are part of the Swedish medical staff
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Swedish Physicians, a network of primary-care physicians practicing at clinics throughout Seattle and on the Eastside
- Two family-medicine residency clinics where select residents from top medical schools provide care
- Swedish Community Health Medical Home, a family-medicine clinic in Ballard where resident physicians provide care utilizing the medical home model.
- Swedish Midwifery & Women's Health where certified nurse-midwives provide childbirth and women's health-care services
