| Providence Regional Medical Center Everett | |
| Providence Health & Services | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | Everett, Snohomish County, Washington, United States |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Medicare/Medicaid/Charity/Public |
| Hospital type | General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 468 (Colby Campus & Pacific Campus combined) |
| History | |
| Founded | March 1, 1994 (by the merger of Providence Hospital, established in 1905 and Everett General Hospital, established in 1894 by the Everett Women's Book Club |
| Links | |
| Website | PRMCE Website |
| Lists | Hospitals in Washington |
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, (formerly known as Providence Everett Medical Center (PEMC) and Providence General Medical Center) located at 1321 Colby Avenue (Colby Campus) and 916 Pacific Avenue (Pacific Campus) in Downtown Everett, Washington, is a full service medical center which had won four awards (the Cardiac Care Excellence Award, the Stroke Care Excellence Award, the Critical Care Excellence Award, and the General Surgery Excellence Award) 1-4 times. The hospitals are licensed for 468 beds, and has over 3,000 employees. There are approximately 1000 physicians on staff. Providence Regional Medical Center Everett is part of the Providence Health & Services in Washington. Serving Northwest families for more than 100 years Providence has provided exceptional, compassionate care for Northwest Washington communities since 1905. People have come to know that the best available, most award-winning care for all stages of life is right here in their own neighborhoods, including:
Cancer Partnership Heart & Vascular Institute Musculoskeletal Institute Neurosciences Institute Women & Children Primary and specialty care Hospice and Home Care services
Founder Mother Gamelin faced many personal tragedies While the presence of Providence in Everett began in 1905, the story begins a century earlier, in Quebec, Montreal, with one woman’s vision and vow to simply care for and serve others.
Émilie Tavernier was born in Montreal in 1800. At age 23, she married John Baptiste Gamelin. Happiness was short-lived; her first two children died within months of their birth. In 1827, her husband died after a long illness, and a year later her third and last child died.
In her grief, Émilie Gamelin plunged into the work of the Ladies of Charity in Montreal, an association for the relief of the city’s poor. She came to see all the poor and needy as her new family, using her home and her inheritance to shelter orphaned, abandoned or runaway children, the mentally ill, homeless, handicapped, immigrants, and destitute people of all kinds.
Humility, simplicity, and charity. Above all, charity. After working on her own for 15 years, Emilie and the Most Reverent Ignace Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, founded the Daughters of Charity, Servants of the Poor—now known as the Sisters of Providence—on March 25, 1843. After pronouncing her religious vows on March 29, 1844, Emilie was appointed as the first Superior of the congregation.
The Sisters of Providence grew rapidly and achieved much under Mother Gamelin’s direction. She died of cholera on September 23, 1851. From her deathbed, she urged her Sisters to be ever mindful of the virtues she herself had embraced throughout life: "Humility, simplicity, and charity. Above all, charity."
Pioneering passion: Mother Joseph leads Sisters of Providence to the Northwest Although Mother Gamelin founded the Sisters of Providence, it was another amazing woman—Mother Joseph—who brought the Sisters of Providence to the Northwest.
Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart was born Esther Pariseau on April 16, 1823 in St. Elzéar, Quebec. Raised on a farm, the third of twelve children, Esther learned many skills through her rural lifestyle: sewing, weaving, carding wool and caring for children. In addition, her father, an expert coach maker, taught his daughter carpentry and design skills that she later applied to construction of some of the Northwest’s first hospitals and schools.
Esther decided to enter the Sisters of Providence, where as a novice, she was trained in nursing in the Sister’s pharmacy and infirmary. Her sewing skills were utilized making robes, habits and vestments, and she learned to carve fine wax figures. She also assisted the treasurer with financial matters. Additional daily tasks included marketing, baking and the laundry. In 1845, Esther Pariseau took her vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and service to the poor, and received her name in religion, Sister Joseph.
In 1856, Sister Joseph led a group of four Sisters of Providence from Montreal to the Washington Territory. Bishop Bourget dedicated the new mission in the west to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and bestowed a new name on its young superior; Sister Joseph would be known as Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Under her leadership and trusting in divine direction, more than 30 hospitals, schools and homes were opened for orphans, the elderly and the sick in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and southern British Columbia.
Whatever concerns the poor is always our affair Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart died on January 19, 1902, at the age of 79. Her last words to the Sisters gathered around her bed were, “My dear Sisters, allow me to recommend to you the care of the poor in our houses, as well as those without. Take good care of them; have no fear of them; assist them and receive them. Then, you will have no regrets. Do not say: Ah! this does not concern me, let others see to them. My Sisters, whatever concerns the poor is always our affair.”
Mother Joseph honored in National Statuary Hall Mother Joseph’s contributions to education, health care, and the social services continue to be recognized a century after her death. In 1980, she was named as Washington State’s second representative in National Statuary Hall, in Washington, D.C. And in 1999, at the request of a group of Vancouver sixth-grade students, the legislature passed a bill declaring her birthday, April 16, as Mother Joseph Day in Washington State.
History of Providence Hospital 1856: Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart and four other Sisters of Providence arrive in Fort Vancouver, Washington establishing the presence of the Sisters of Providence in the Pacific Northwest.
1905: The Sisters purchase Everett’s Monte Cristo Hotel for $50,000 and turn it into Providence Hospital, featuring 75 beds, staffed by 11 Sisters and three employees. More than 400 patients were treated in that first year.
1923: The Sisters of Providence borrow $200,000 and build a new 126-bed hospital 32 yards East of the Monte Cristo Hotel site.
1962: Providence Hospital begins phase one of a $14.5 million dollar four-phase building reconstruction project.
1965: Providence Hospital completes construction of a new service wing for Obstetrics, Radiology and Dietary Services.
History of General Hospital 1894: General Hospital is founded by the Women’s Book Club of Everett. The cornerstone was laid in an existing building at 3322 Broadway. The site later became Bethany Home.
1923: A group of prominent businessman propose a plan to the community to raise $150,000 to purchase a new site and construct a modern hospital. $150,000 was raised in seven days.
1924: The newly constructed General Hospital opens its doors and admits its first patients to the 74-bed, 14-bassinet hospital in March.
1949: By converting the large sun porches on each floor into six-bed wards, General Hospital is expanded to a 127-bed and 30-bassinet facility.
1965: Fundraising efforts result in $782,000 to build a seven-story patient care tower, to house modern patient rooms and a centralized dietary kitchen.
1990: General Hospital’s name is changed to General Hospital Medical Center to more accurately reflect its regional capabilities.
Providence Everett Medical Center In 1975, General Hospital Medical Center and Providence Hospital begin to consider a merger. An extensive study is undertaken to determine the future needs of the two hospitals, but no further action is taken until 1994.
1994: Exactly 100 years after the founding of Everett’s first hospital, General Hospital and Providence Hospital join forces on March 1, 1994. Providence and General Hospitals become a new entity, Providence General Medical Center, under the sponsorship of the Sisters of Providence Health Systems. General and Providence pledge to focus on improving the health status of the community while maintaining the quality of care they so highly valued throughout their histories.
2000: The hospital’s name is changed to Providence Everett Medical Center.
2002: The Pavilion for Women and Children opens as a state-of-the-art, five-story facility on Providence Regional's Pacific Campus, offering comprehensive, family-centered care.
2004: Providence Everett Medical Center opens Providence Everett Healthcare Clinic, the first of its kind. The clinic was established to provide basic medical care for people in our community who have had difficulty gaining access to healthcare providers. Providence Everett Healthcare Clinic welcomes patients with Medicare, Medicaid as well as the uninsured.
2006: Plans begin for new 12-story medical tower.
2007: Providence Regional Cancer Partnership opens at 1717 - 13th Street. This collaboration of Providence Regional, The Everett Clinic, Western Washington Medical Group and Northwest Washington Radiation Oncology Associates offers all aspects of outpatient cancer care under one roof.
2008: Providence Everett Medical Center changes its name to Providence Regional Medical Center Everett.
Groundbreaking ceremony marks the beginning of construction of a new 12-story, 680,000-square-foot (63,000 m2) medical tower.
2009: Final steel beam is placed on the new Cymbaluk Medical Tower, scheduled for completion June 2011.
Today, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett serves patients from Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom, Island and San Juan counties.
Providence Regional - Colby Campus: Critical and Acute Care, ICU, CCU, Surgery, Telemetry, Emergency Department, Cardiac Surgery Single Stay Unit
Providence Regional - Pacific Campus: Behavioral Health, Rehabilitation, Short-Stay Surgery, Transitional Care Unit, Providence General Foundation, Emergency Department
Pavilion for Women and Children - Pacific Campus: Specialized health care services for women, children and families. Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Family Maternity Center, Pediatrics, Comprehensive Breast Center, Providence Children's Center and Seattle Children's Everett (pediatric sub-speciality clinic of Seattle Children's Hospital).
Providence Physician Group: Primary & Specialty Care Convenient neighborhood clinics, walk-in care and specialists.
Mill Creek Medical Building: Providence Physician Group clinics (Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics), Radiology, Walk-in Clinic
Providence Everett Healthcare Clinic: Serving those on Medicare, Medicaid, the underinsured and those who have no other access to a healthcare provider.
Providence Hospice and Home Care Services: Providing professional, compassionate end-of-life care.