On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Diane Hettrick wrote: > In a very short period of time three hospitals merged: Seattle General, > Doctors', and I thought that Swedish was the big one. John thinks Virginia > Mason. Either way, I believe that Seattle General, like the others, was on > Pill Hill or First Hill (it's been called both) in Seattle. It is the area > just above downtown Seattle where the hospitals, medical office buildings, > etc. are located. This took place around 1966-1970. > > Diane Hettrick > Mailto:dhettrick@earthlink.net My wife works at Swedish, but I wasn't going to show them favoritism <G> Perhaps they took Seattle General and Virginia Mason took Docters. I seem to recall that Swedish had their own laundry and that VM needed the laundry that Doctor's hospital had. Sending laundry out is expensive. As for where the buildings were, I had to know those things as a cab driver from '60 through '75 when the Blood Bank wanted deliveries made. Cab drivers still do that today but it's a different company now. Even Stephens in Edmonds/Lynnwood as well as Overlake depend on them. And, there were a few cab drivers that made other "deliveries" when they didn't get to the hospital soon enough. <g> John *====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====* # John Wm Sloniker <johnwms@serv.net> Seattle, WA # # (206) 789-6663 7323 - 19th Ave NW 98117-5612 # *====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*====*