Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center (Spokane, Wash.). Mother Joseph and the Sisters of Providence first founded Sacred Heart Medical Center in 1886 as a 31-bed hospital. The hospital has since grown into a major 644-bed regional medical center, featuring the only Level II pediatric trauma center and Level IV neonatal intensive care unit in Eastern Washington.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the hospital as No. 2 in the state for 2014-15. Healthgrades has also recognized the hospital multiple times, including giving it the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence in 2014 and 2015 and recognizing it for excellence in stroke care, critical care and neurosciences in 2014 and 2015.
More than 800 specialists and primary care physicians provide care at Providence Sacred Heart. The hospital's stroke and neuroscience center is the most comprehensive center of its kind in the Inland Northwest. In addition to receiving recognition from Healthgrades, it is also the region's first Primary Stroke Center, as named by The Joint Commission. It has also received the Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission for the Spokane Primary Stroke Program.
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