Washington hospitals
Washington hospitals: racial-equity scorecards
88 Medicare-certified hospitals serve Washington, represented by the Washington State Hospital Association. This page aggregates CMS Hospital Compare measures — overall star rating, mortality / safety / readmission / patient-experience measure-group performance — for each of those facilities.
Harborview is the primary Level I trauma center for Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, and Seattle's dedicated public safety-net hospital owned by King County and managed by UW Medicine.
The state's recognized safety-net hospital systems — the facilities that carry a disproportionate share of Medicaid and uninsured admissions — include: Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, UW Medicine), and University of Washington Medical Center. Each has its own detail page below.
Two editorial notes on scope. First, CMS does not publish a racial-disparity scorecard per-hospital at national scale; what we surface below is the facility's overall CMS rating paired with any race-stratified metric we could find in a primary source (AHRQ Disparities Atlas, a state discharge scorecard, or a published study). Second, we do not rank hospitals as 'worst for Black patients' without a primary-source citation — the legal standard for that claim requires it.
Safety-net systems in Washington
- Harborview Medical Center (Seattle, UW Medicine)
- University of Washington Medical Center
All 88 hospitals in Washington
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Data sources
- CMS Hospital Compare — Hospital General Information (data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/xubh-q36u).
- Washington State Hospital Association — state hospital trade body (https://www.wsha.org/).
- Washington State Department of Health — Office of Health Systems Quality Assurance — state hospital licensing + oversight (https://doh.wa.gov/licenses-permits-and-certificates/facilities-providers-suppliers).
- State hospital scorecard (https://www.wahospitalquality.com/).
- AHRQ National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr).
- CDC Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System state releases (cdc.gov/pmss).
- The Leapfrog Group hospital safety grades (leapfroggroup.org).
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