Busy on the front line of Seattle’s battle against the coronavirus, Swedish Medical Center is also making plans that will bolster the growing presence of health services ventures in the core of  Broadway.

City of Seattle construction permitting reveals the Pacific Northwest health care provider is making plans to resuscitate the space left empty where CHI Franciscan Health venture CityMD went belly up last year after overhauling the bones of the old building that legendary Broadway restaurant Charlie’s called home for decades.

A Swedish representative tells CHS more information on the project will be made available soon.

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The site plan for the “existing City MD and future Swedish clinic” shows the new Swedish facility’s plans to put the recently built out medical space back into action in the 200 block of Broadway E.

It’s not clear what type of clinic Swedish plans to roll out on the busy commercial street just a block from Capitol Hill Station. The health services provider has several primary care clinics around Seattle and also has experimented with Swedish Express concepts like the one found just a few blocks south inside the Walgreens at Pine and Broadway.

Swedish, meanwhile, has finally settled its labor dispute with nurses following walkouts and a brief lockout earlier this year.

Already home to a few varieties of primary care clinics including two separate locations of the Zoom Care chain, Broadway is also set to welcome so-called “concierge” level care with the addition of One Medical planned to take over the street’s former Panera space near E Pine.

In addition to attracting new customers to Broadway, the clinics are also bringing some of the types of jobs you might be more accustomed to seeing at work on hospital-filled First Hill. The coming Capitol Hill One Medical was hiring for primary care providers, “specifically medical doctors or doctors of osteopathy,” plus phlebotomists and “administrative assistants” earlier this year.

For One Medical and the planned Broadway Swedish clinic, the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the industry might mean the Capitol Hill projects end up on the back burner. But both projects have their construction permits approved and part of Swedish’s filing includes an appendix with guidance from Gov. Jay Inslee’s office designating health care, of course, as an essential industry.

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