CMS certification 500152
Swedish Issaquah
751 NE Blakely Dr, Issaquah, WA 98029
Swedish Issaquah has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. 81% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. Of the 20 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 4 and worse on none. Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 21 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min).
Every figure on this page is published by CMS; we arrange and explain it, and score nothing ourselves.
What patients said
Answers from patients who stayed here, collected by CMS in the national HCAHPS survey: 567 completed surveys, 21% response rate, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
Emergency department
How long emergency patients spent here and how some time-critical care went, from CMS's timely and effective care measures, Oct 2024 – Sep 2025. CMS classes this emergency department's patient volume as medium; busier departments tend to have longer times, so the national median for departments of the same volume is shown too. These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.
| Measure | This hospital | WA | US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving Lower is better · 411 visits sampled · US median for EDs of the same volume: 2 h 45 min | 2 h 21 min | 2 h 31 min | 2 h 42 min |
| Median time for psychiatric and mental health patients Lower is better · 12 visits sampled | 3 h 35 min | 3 h 58 min | 4 h 17 min |
| Left before being seen Lower is better · 34,194 patients | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Severe sepsis and septic shock: all recommended care given Higher is better · 105 patients | 37% | 60% | 65% |
How Swedish Issaquah compares with nearby hospitals
The closest hospitals of the same kind that CMS rates or surveys - the same city first, then the same county and ZIP area. Every figure is CMS's: the overall star rating, the share of patients who would definitely recommend the hospital, the median time emergency patients spent before leaving, and how many death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS found better or worse than the national rate.
| Hospital | CMS stars | Would recommend | ER median time | Vs the nation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish IssaquahThis hospital | 4/5 | 81% | 2 h 21 min | 4 better |
| Evergreenhealth Medical CenterSame county · Kirkland | 5/5 | 80% | 3 h 16 min | 6 better 1 worse |
| St Elizabeth HospitalSame county · Enumclaw | 5/5 | 73% | 3 h 13 min | 1 better |
| Multicare Covington Medical CenterSame county · Covington | 3/5 | 71% | 2 h 57 min | 2 worse |
| Overlake Hospital Medical Center & ClinicsSame county · Bellevue | 2/5 | 79% | 2 h 56 min | 1 better 2 worse |
| St Francis Community HospitalSame county · Federal Way | 4/5 | 64% | 3 h 22 min | 2 better 2 worse |
Hospitals differ in size and in how sick their patients are. CMS adjusts its outcome measures for that, but a star or a percentage is a starting point for questions, not a verdict.
Deaths
How many patients died within 30 days of admission, adjusted by CMS for how sick they were. Lower is better. Data from Jul 2022 – Jun 2025.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| All patients, hospital-wide 1,686 cases | Too few cases | 3.6% | 3.9% |
| Heart attack 75 cases | Too few cases | 13.9% | 11.9% |
| Heart failure 259 cases | Too few cases | 12.7% | 11.1% |
| Pneumonia 200 cases | Too few cases | 11.6% | 15.2% |
| Stroke 127 cases | Too few cases | 9.8% | 11.9% |
| COPD 34 cases | Too few cases | 6.4% | 8.6% |
1 more measure had too few cases here to report.
Complications
How often patients had serious complications, most of them after surgery, adjusted for how sick they were. Lower is better. Data from Jul 2022 – Jun 2024.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serious complications, combined measure | No different | 0.94 likely 0.57 – 1.32 | 1 |
| Deaths after a serious but treatable surgical complication 31 cases | No different | 189.96 per 1,000 likely 128.98 per 1,000 – 250.95 per 1,000 | 173.3 per 1,000 |
| Pressure ulcers (bed sores) 2,384 cases | No different | 0.26 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 1.14 per 1,000 | 0.63 per 1,000 |
| Collapsed lung caused by a procedure 2,976 cases | No different | 0.23 per 1,000 likely 0.02 per 1,000 – 0.45 per 1,000 | 0.21 per 1,000 |
| Broken bones from falls in the hospital 2,967 cases | No different | 0.28 per 1,000 likely 0.08 per 1,000 – 0.49 per 1,000 | 0.27 per 1,000 |
| Bleeding or hematoma after surgery 661 cases | No different | 2.61 per 1,000 likely 0.99 per 1,000 – 4.23 per 1,000 | 2.34 per 1,000 |
| Kidney injury needing dialysis after surgery 320 cases | No different | 1.56 per 1,000 likely 0 per 1,000 – 3.23 per 1,000 | 1.67 per 1,000 |
| Breathing failure after surgery 312 cases | No different | 10.88 per 1,000 likely 2.99 per 1,000 – 18.76 per 1,000 | 9.42 per 1,000 |
| Blood clots in the lungs or legs after surgery 705 cases | No different | 2.84 per 1,000 likely 0.62 per 1,000 – 5.07 per 1,000 | 3.52 per 1,000 |
| Sepsis after surgery 302 cases | No different | 6.18 per 1,000 likely 2.39 per 1,000 – 9.98 per 1,000 | 5.27 per 1,000 |
| Surgical wound splitting open 224 cases | No different | 2.29 per 1,000 likely 0.81 per 1,000 – 3.77 per 1,000 | 1.77 per 1,000 |
| Accidental cut or tear during abdominal surgery 708 cases | No different | 1.07 per 1,000 likely 0.1 per 1,000 – 2.04 per 1,000 | 1.06 per 1,000 |
1 more measure had too few cases here to report.
Infections caught in the hospital
Standardized infection ratio: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one. Lower is better. Data from Oct 2024 – Sep 2025.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bloodstream infections from central lines (CLABSI) | No different | 0 | 1 |
| Urinary tract infections from catheters (CAUTI) | No different | 0.82 likely 0.14 – 2.72 | 1 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery | No different | 1.59 likely 0.7 – 3.15 | 1 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections | No different | 2.29 likely 0.58 – 6.24 | 1 |
| C. diff intestinal infections | Better | 0.15 likely 0.02 – 0.48 | 1 |
1 more measure had too few cases here to report.
Readmissions and return visits
How often patients had to come back to a hospital after going home. Lower is better. Data from Jul 2023 – Jun 2025.
| Measure | CMS comparison | This hospital | National |
|---|---|---|---|
| Readmitted after a heart attack 116 cases | Too few cases | 14.4% | 14.4% |
| Readmitted after heart failure 384 cases | Too few cases | 20.6% | 21.3% |
| Readmitted after pneumonia 298 cases | Too few cases | 15% | 17.3% |
| Readmitted after COPD 75 cases | Too few cases | 19.4% | 20% |
| Days back in hospital after a heart attack 77 cases | Too few cases | 11.9 days per 100 | — |
| Days back in hospital after heart failure 272 cases | Too few cases | -5.4 days per 100 | — |
| Days back in hospital after pneumonia 197 cases | Too few cases | -50.8 days per 100 | — |
| Unplanned visits after an outpatient colonoscopy 1,899 cases | No different | 13.8 per 1,000 likely 10.8 per 1,000 – 17.5 per 1,000 | 13 per 1,000 |
| Unplanned visits after outpatient surgery 359 cases | No different | 1.1 likely 0.8 – 1.4 | — |
5 more measures had too few cases here to report.
Clinicians registered at this address
144 clinicians give this hospital's street address as their practice location in NPPES, the federal provider registry. The same address can take in offices and clinics in the building, and a listing does not prove admitting privileges or current employment.
| Specialty | Clinicians |
|---|---|
| Obstetrics & Gynecology | 19 |
| Surgical | 11 |
| Advanced Practice Midwife | 10 |
| Emergency Medicine | 9 |
| Pharmacist | 8 |
| Gastroenterology | 6 |
| Clinical | 5 |
| Dietitian, Registered | 5 |
| Hematology & Oncology | 5 |
| Lactation Consultant | 5 |
| Nurse Practitioner | 5 |
| Physician Assistant | 5 |
First 12 alphabetically
Money from drug and device companies
Drug and device makers have to report what they pay teaching hospitals to CMS's Open Payments program. At many teaching hospitals most of it is research funding, or royalties for inventions the hospital licensed to a company. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.
- 2019 $1.3M
- 2020 $1.5M
- 2021 $595,501
- 2022 $714,694
- 2023 $8.5M
- 2024 $7.1M
- 2025 $9.1M
What the 2025 general payments were for
| Type of payment | Amount | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Speaking, teaching and other services | $2,500 | 1 |
| Space rental and facility fees | $1,000 | 1 |
| Gifts | $374 | 1 |
Largest paying companies, 2025
| Company | Amount | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer INC. | $3.3M | 155 |
| Aadi Bioscience, Inc. | $1.5M | 158 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | $1.2M | 158 |
| Eli Lilly and Company | $1.1M | 10 |
| Genentech, Inc. | $824,231 | 78 |
| AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP | $315,026 | 6 |
| Exelixis Inc. | $303,265 | 23 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | $252,230 | 3 |
Largest research studies funded here, 2025
| Study | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trial of Nab-Sirolimus in Combination With Letrozole in Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Endometrioid Endometrial Cancer Aadi Bioscience, Inc. · NCT05997017 | $1.5M |
| A PHASE 1B2 OPENLABEL MULTICENTER DOSE ESCALATION AND DOSE EXPANSION STUDY TO EVALUATE THE SAFETY TOLERABILITY PHARMACOKINETICS PHARMACODYNAMICS AND … PFIZER INC. | $1M |
| A PHASE 1 DOSE ESCALATION AND EXPANSION STUDY TO EVALUATE SAFETY TOLERABILITY PHARMACOKINETIC PHARMACODYNAMIC AND ANTITUMOR ACTIVITY OF PF07248144 IN… PFIZER INC. | $902,531 |
| A PHASE 2 BASKET STUDY OF DISITAMAB VEDOTIN IN ADULT SUBJECTS WITH PREVIOUSLY TREATED LOCALLYADVANCED UNRESECTABLE OR METASTATIC SOLID TUMORS THAT EX… PFIZER INC. | $618,099 |
| SUNRAY-01 A GLOBAL PIVOTAL STUDY IN PARTICIPANTS WITH KRAS G12C-MUTANT LOCALLY ADVANCED OR METASTATIC NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER COMPARING FIRST LINE… Eli Lilly and Company · NCT06119581 | $601,091 |
| A Phase 2, Open-Label, Parallel Cohort Study of Subcutaneous Amivantamab in Multiple Regimens in Patients with Advanced or Metastatic Solid Tumors in… Janssen Research & Development, LLC | $378,774 |
| A Phase 1b Multicenter, Open-label, Study of JNJ-90014496, an Autologous CD19/CD20 Bi-specific CAR-T Cell Therapy in Adult Participants with Relapsed… Janssen Research & Development, LLC | $374,841 |
| A PHASE 1B2 OPENLABEL STUDY OF PF07901801 IN COMBINATION WITH GLOFITAMAB AFTER A FIXED SINGLE DOSE OF OBINUTUZUMAB IN PARTICIPANTS WITH RELAPSEDREFRA… PFIZER INC. | $369,045 |
Amounts are as the paying companies reported them to CMS; Open Payments data retrieved 13 Sep 2026. Full record on CMS Open Payments.
How to read this page
- Everything here is published by CMS on Care Compare. We arrange it and explain it; the star ratings and the better / worse verdicts are CMS's, not ours.
- “No different” is the most common result on most measures at most hospitals. CMS only calls a result better or worse when the difference from the national rate is statistically clear.
- Death, complication and readmission rates are adjusted by CMS for how sick patients were, so hospitals that treat sicker patients can be compared fairly.
- Infection results are ratios: 1.0 means as many infections as CMS predicted for a hospital like this one, below 1.0 is fewer.
- These are hospital-wide results. They do not rate an individual doctor, nurse or department, and they are not medical advice.
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Common questions about Swedish Issaquah
Is Swedish Issaquah a good hospital?
Swedish Issaquah has a CMS overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. Of the 20 death, complication, infection and readmission measures CMS could compare, it does better than the nation on 4 and worse on none. These are hospital-wide results published by CMS; they do not rate individual doctors or departments.
Would patients recommend Swedish Issaquah?
81% of patients who answered CMS's national survey would definitely recommend it, against a US average of 71%. The figure comes from 567 completed HCAHPS surveys.
How long is the wait in the Swedish Issaquah emergency room?
Emergency patients spend a median of 2 h 21 min in its emergency department before leaving (US median 2 h 42 min). Among US emergency departments with medium patient volume, like this one, the median is 2 h 45 min. 1% of emergency patients left before being seen (US 2%). These are medians over a year of visits, not a live wait time.
Does Swedish Issaquah receive money from drug and device companies?
Drug and device makers reported $9.1M in payments to Swedish Issaquah for 2025, most of it research funding, under the federal Open Payments program. A payment on its own does not show a conflict of interest.