325 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98104 · (206) 744-9535
Beds
448
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$1.53B
FY 2025
Net income
$133.3M
Patient care margin -4.0%
Discharges
15,203
Occupancy 89.8%
Clinicians
1,367
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.53B | $1.60B | -4.0% | $133.3M | 15,203 | $57.2M | 16.8% | 6.9% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 12.6% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 9% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.1% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 11.4% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.7% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $1.34B | $1.46B | -8.3% | $1.7M | 14,787 | $48.0M | 18.1% | 6.2% |
| 2023 | $1.20B | $1.34B | -11.3% | $20.3M | 14,010 | $44.8M | 19.5% | 6.2% |
| 2022 | $1.08B | $1.19B | -9.8% | -$3.9M | 13,252 | $41.8M | 21.4% | 6.7% |
| 2021 | $1.02B | $1.14B | -12.1% | $6.0M | 13,372 | $33.7M | 22.8% | 7.1% |
| 2020 | $933.0M | $1.04B | -11.8% | $27.0M | 13,710 | $36.5M | 26.3% | 8.0% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.8% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21.7% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.6% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.14 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.65 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.96 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 1.07 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 1.45 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.68 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 74% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 74% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 33% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 65% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 59% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 71% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 7% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 299 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 12% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 55% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 80% | US median 79% |
| 63 |
| $270,788.94 |
| $52,652.40 |
| $37,824.45 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 59 | $69,035.51 | $10,203.00 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 023 CRANIOTOMY WITH MAJOR DEVICE IMPLANT OR ACUTE COMPLEX CNS PRINCIPAL DIAGNOSIS WITH MCC O | 59 | $258,770.14 | $59,228.36 | $47,977.83 |
| DRG 064 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH MCC | 51 | $110,894.27 | $22,037.43 | $15,695.20 |
| DRG 454 COMBINED ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR SPINAL FUSION WITH CC | 49 | $261,453.22 | $56,862.69 | $49,528.71 |
| DRG 184 MAJOR CHEST TRAUMA WITH CC | 47 | $49,227.06 | $9,686.17 | $8,198.25 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 47 | $65,275.40 | $12,828.32 | $10,642.23 |
| DRG 026 CRANIOTOMY AND ENDOVASCULAR INTRACRANIAL PROCEDURES WITH CC | 43 | $167,585.72 | $30,248.07 | $26,217.29 |
| DRG 460 SPINAL FUSION EXCEPT CERVICAL WITHOUT MCC | 39 | $212,103.36 | $33,971.64 | $27,891.78 |
| DRG 480 HIP AND FEMUR PROCEDURES EXCEPT MAJOR JOINT WITH MCC | 37 | $197,819.51 | $35,855.68 | $23,191.08 |
| DRG 082 TRAUMATIC STUPOR AND COMA >1 HOUR WITH MCC | 37 | $115,711.32 | $24,489.89 | $20,258.03 |
| DRG 101 SEIZURES WITHOUT MCC | 35 | $41,325.77 | $7,669.43 | $7,312.59 |
| DRG 957 OTHER O.R. PROCEDURES FOR MULTIPLE SIGNIFICANT TRAUMA WITH MCC | 35 | $427,595.71 | $102,347.80 | $71,004.78 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5491 Level 1 Intraocular Procedures | 483 | 344 | $1,856.95 | $1,751.67 |
| APC 5503 Level 3 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures | 105 | 100 | $1,865.60 | $1,780.31 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 98 | 96 | $5,718.83 | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5184 Level 4 Vascular Procedures | 89 | 85 | $4,394.24 | $3,945.82 |
| APC 5492 Level 2 Intraocular Procedures | 88 | 76 | $3,214.31 | $3,116.50 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 84 | 81 | $1,280.26 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5373 Level 3 Urology and Related Services | 81 | 57 | $1,618.55 | $1,516.28 |
| APC 5372 Level 2 Urology and Related Services | 81 | 77 | $541.69 | $502.15 |
| APC 5504 Level 4 Extraocular, Repair, and Plastic Eye Procedures | 52 | 52 | $3,091.75 | $2,968.58 |
| APC 5627 Level 7 Radiation Therapy | 49 | 41 | $6,227.10 | $6,120.75 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 46 | 40 | $2,188.81 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 44 | 42 | $1,252.09 | $1,196.16 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Harborview Medical Center is a government-owned short-term acute care hospital in Seattle, WA with 448 beds, part of UW Medicine and a 2-star overall rating.
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, WA has 448 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 413 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 15,203 inpatients that year, with 89.8% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Harborview Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $1.53B and operating expenses of $1.60B, a margin on patient care of -4.0%. After other income and expenses its net income was $133.3M (7.7% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Harborview Medical Center is part of UW Medicine, a health system with 3 hospitals based in Seattle, WA. It is a government-owned hospital.
Harborview Medical Center has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey. 0 death rate measures are better and 1 worse than the national rate.
Yes, Harborview Medical Center provides emergency services.
1,367 Medicare clinicians list Harborview Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Internal Medicine, Hospitalist.
In 2024, Harborview Medical Center had 1,808 Medicare inpatient stays in 75 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 82 stays; Medicare paid $19,292.62 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $113K in payments to Harborview Medical Center as a teaching hospital ($30K general and $83K for research) from 4 companies.