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November 10, 2009 in City
Pelosi tours Seattle hospital to see health care in action
Registered Nurse Caroline Truong displays a computer terminal to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Jim McDermott, left, and Rep. Jay Inslee on Monday at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
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SEATTLE – Just two days after shepherding a landmark health care bill through the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Seattle on Monday to see how one hospital is already delivering care in much the same way as the bill proposes.
In her first public appearance since the House vote Saturday, Pelosi toured Swedish Medical Center flanked by two of her Democratic colleagues, Rep. Jim McDermott, of Seattle, and Rep. Jay Inslee, of Bainbridge Island, Wash.
Swedish, the area’s largest health care system, has won notice for many quality innovations. Earlier this year, it opened a new primary-care clinic in Ballard following the “medical home” model, in which teams of caregivers coordinate patient care using evidence-based medicine.
Pelosi, McDermott and Inslee briefly toured Swedish’s sixth-floor intensive care unit, where a nurse boasted the hospital has gone nearly two years without an infection in a patient on a ventilator.
Pelosi’s visit came after a narrow vote in the House and with an alternate bill facing tough odds in the Senate.
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liarsinnews on November 10 at 8:08 a.m.
You better hope and pray nothing happens to Biden and Obama and that Pelosi never servers as our President. Biden might be as bad. His big mouth would destroy our wonderful country. God help us!!!!
montana on November 10 at 9:28 a.m.
Is Swedish Hospital now run by the government? I thought it was a private hospital. There are many success stories across the nation in health care innovation created by private efforts.
Keep the government away from the steering wheel !