Editing Edmonds, Washington (section)

===Health care===

Edmonds is home to one [[general hospital]], a branch of [[Swedish Health Services]], which is located on State Route 99. It opened on January 26, 1964, as Stevens Memorial Hospital (named for Washington territorial governor [[Isaac Stevens]]), and was initially run as a private facility until 1967, when Snohomish County Public Hospital District {{abbr|No.|Number}} 2 was formed to oversee it.<ref name="Stevens Hospital - HL">{{cite web |last1=LeWarne |first1=Charles P. |title=Stevens Memorial Hospital (Edmonds) |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/21121 |website=HistoryLink |access-date=April 14, 2024 |date=November 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Langston |first1=Jennifer |title=$1.18 million severance for fired hospital CEO |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/1-18-million-severance-for-fired-hospital-ceo-1136368.php |access-date=April 14, 2024 |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |date=February 5, 2004 |language=en}}</ref> The public hospital district was led by a five-member<ref name="Swedish takeover - Herald">{{cite news |last=Salyer |first=Sharon |date=August 17, 2010 |title=Swedish gets approval to take over Stevens Hospital |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/news/swedish-gets-approval-to-take-over-stevens-hospital/ |work=The Everett Herald |access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref> elected [[board of commissioners]] from within the district, which eventually encompassed [[Brier, Washington|Brier]], Edmonds, [[Esperance, Washington|Esperance]], [[Lynnwood, Washington|Lynnwood]], [[Mountlake Terrace, Washington|Mountlake Terrace]], and [[Woodway, Washington|Woodway]] as well as parts of [[Bothell, Washington|Bothell]] and [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated]] Snohomish County.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Malakoff |first1=Morris |title=Stevens Hospital panel picks Tawney to fill spot |url=https://www.heraldnet.com/uncategorized/stevens-hospital-panel-picks-tawney-to-fill-spot-2/ |access-date=April 14, 2024 |work=The Everett Herald |date=February 21, 2008}}</ref><ref name="Verdant rebrand">{{cite news |title=South Snohomish County Commission for Health becomes Verdant Health Commission |url=https://myedmondsnews.com/2011/11/south-snohomish-county-commission-for-health-becomes-verdant-health-commission/ |access-date=April 14, 2024 |work=My Edmonds News |date=November 29, 2011}}</ref> Stevens Hospital was expanded with the addition of a nine-story medical tower in 1972 as demand increased from population growth in surrounding areas, but demand faltered as mismanagement plagued its reputation among locals in the early 2000s.<ref name="Stevens Hospital - HL" /> The public hospital district ultimately reached an agreement with Swedish in 2010, with the latter leasing the hospital from the former starting on September 1;<ref name="Swedish takeover - Herald" /> the former rebranded as the Verdant Health Commission the following year and refocused its efforts as a public [[health department]].<ref name="Verdant rebrand" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Wippel |first1=Teresa |title='Verdant in a nutshell': Superintendent explains health commission's work |url=https://myedmondsnews.com/2019/04/verdant-in-a-nutshell-superintendent-explains-health-commissions-work/ |access-date=April 14, 2024 |work=My Edmonds News |date=April 26, 2019}}</ref>

Prior to Stevens/Swedish, a general hospital existed in downtown Edmonds in the mid 1920s, while another one existed in the early 1950s. The hospital sits at the center of a district of medical and professional services offices along State Route 99.<ref name="HistoryLink" /><ref name="Stevens Hospital - HL" />