Seattle COVID-19 TESTING

When an injury or medical emergency occurs, the staff at UW Medical Center - Northwest is committed to providing personalized, quality emergency care with compassion, dignity and respect. Our team includes board-certified emergency medicine physicians and nurses with advanced cardiac life support, pediatric and trauma training. We provide one of the fastest times to treatment in the region for cardiac patients. And to improve stroke patient recovery rates, we offer immediate patient entry into the hospital’s stroke program. Our emergency department offers 22 private treatment rooms, five trauma/critical care rooms, mobile and bedside patient admissions, and a triage room staffed 24 hours a day.

UW Medicine offers five conveniently located blood draw labs in Seattle where UW Medicine patients and the broader community who have received a physician’s order can have their blood drawn and urine collected for various health tests. Certified and state-licensed phlebotomists and clinical laboratory technicians collect blood, urine and other fluid samples. The main lab processes the samples and records the results in the patient’s electronic medical record for review by the ordering provider. The provider then communicates the results to the patient.