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Inpatient Palliative Care Services at UW Medical Center - Montlake

Location Hours

Monday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Tuesday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Wednesday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Thursday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Friday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Saturday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Sunday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Inpatient Palliative Care Services at UW Medical Center
Main Hospital, 1959 NE Pacific St., Seattle, WA 98195
206.543.3821 fax
Overview
Care Providers
Directions

If at any point your symptoms worsen or you feel like you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 or proceed to the nearest emergency room.

Services available at this location include:

  • Hospital Inpatient Palliative Care

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Compassionate palliative and supportive care services at UW Medical Center - Montlake

The Palliative Care team at UW Medical Center - Montlake partners with patients and their families to develop a treatment plan to relieve the symptoms, pain and stress of serious illness, regardless of the patient’s age, the stage of their disease or their need for additional care. We also work with those who have ended curative treatments.

Our team will also connect patients and their caregivers to resources and support groups and help manage the feelings that come with serious illness.

We also help with pain management, making end-of-life decisions and navigating the grief process.

Driving Directions

UW Medical Center is at 1959 N.E. Pacific St., Seattle, WA 98195. See map.

From Interstate 5:  

  • Take Exit No. 168B (Bellevue /Kirkland) onto State Route 520. 
  • Take the first exit off SR 520 to Montlake Boulevard. 
  • Turn left onto Montlake Boulevard and continue north across the Montlake Bridge.
  • At the traffic light ahead, two lanes will turn left onto N.E. Pacific Street. You'll want to be in the right of those two left-turn lanes.
  • From N.E. Pacific Street, turn right at the second "Patient Parking" directional sign onto N.E. Pacific Place, then immediately turn right into the Triangle Parking Garage, connected to the medical center via a pedestrian tunnel.
  • OR you can access the Surgery Pavilion Garage by turning left at stop sign just past the Emergency Department entrance.

From the East via State Route 520 Westbound:

  • Exit at Montlake Boulevard and continue north across the Montlake Bridge.
  • At the traffic light ahead, two lanes will turn left onto N.E. Pacific Street. You'll want to be in the right of those two left-turn lanes.
  • From N.E. Pacific Street, turn right at the second "Patient Parking" directional sign onto N.E. Pacific Place, then immediately turn right into the Triangle Parking Garage, connected to the medical center via a pedestrian tunnel.
  • OR you can access the Surgery Pavilion Garage by turning left at stop sign just past the Emergency Department entrance.

Public Transit

UW Medical Center – Montlake is served by many King County Metro Transit bus lines. Use Metro's Trip Planner to learn which buses can get you to the medical center.

    Shuttle Services
    The Health Sciences Express free shuttle service assists faculty, staff, patients, families and caregivers in traveling between UW Medical Center, UWMC-Roosevelt clinics and Harborview Medical Center. See the shuttle's schedule.
     
    A separate, free shuttle service similarly transports faculty, staff, patients, families and caregivers between UW Medical Center and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Seattle Children’s. See the shuttle's schedule.
     

    Parking Directions

    Triangle Garage

    The Triangle Garage is underground, across N.E. Pacific Street from UW Medical Center. Enter from N.E. Pacific Place, one-half block west of Montlake Boulevard. A pedestrian tunnel leads from the garage to the third (main) floor of the medical center.

    The garage has 500 parking stalls; 67 are labeled for disability parking and nine are wheelchair-accessible. Parking staff work from 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through Friday, and from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

    Pay as you leave. Garage parking is free on Sundays, and after-hours parking is available. The garage has a vehicle height restriction of 6-feet, 8 inches. Reach the Triangle Garage at 206.598.3460.

    Surgery Pavilion Garage

    The Surgery Pavilion Garage is temporarily closed.

    All patient and visitor parking will be accommodated in the Triangle Garage, with overflow parking located at the light rail station across Montlake Boulevard from UW Medical Center – Montlake.

    Vehicles that are over 6'8" and can't fit in the Triangle garage, can park in the designated section of the S1 parking lot, located south (behind) UWMC – Montlake on Columbia Road. This section is located on the east end of the upper level of the S1 garage, closest to UWMC – Montlake. Please make sure that you pay for your parking at the pay station located near the S1 parking area, as UWMC– Montlake does not control the parking in this location.

    For questions related to parking in the S1 garage, please stop by the parking gatehouse, located on Columbia Road.

    Patient/Visitor Parking Rates

    UW Medical Center parking lots are available to patients and visitors. Discount coupons, available at clinics and nurses’ stations, enable parking at these rates:

    • 0-30 minutes: Free
    • 31-60 minutes: $3
    • 1-2 hours: $6
    • 2-3 hours: $9
    • More than three hours/in-out access/lost ticket: $15 daily maximum

    Rates are subject to change annually in July.

    Walking Directions

    UW Medical Center – Montlake's main entrance and its parking facilities enable easy access for all visitors. Disability parking is available in at the Triangle and Surgery Pavilion garages, and valet service is available at the front entrance of the medical center.

     
    We provide adaptive equipment for patients who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, or who have speech impairments. TTYs (regular print, large print visual display, Braille), amplified headsets, flashing light and vibrating phone alert signalers, and TV decoders are available. Patients can request disability accommodations by calling 206.598.6970 (voice). Washington Relay Service, at 800.833.6388, provides TTY text service to the medical center.