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• Video: Good Samaritan innovations featured on Discovery Channel

  Posted on Jan 20, 2013
  

  A TV program that aired last week on The Discovery Channel highlighted the innovative work at the Children's Therapy Unit at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup, Wash.

• Video: Final beam installed this week atop Rainier Pavilion

  Posted on Jan 18, 2013
  

  The final steel beam was installed this week at MultiCare Health System's Rainier Pavilion construction project in Tacoma. 

• Bellarmine Prep students visit Allenmore to try surgical robot

  Posted on Jan 11, 2013
  

  Inside an operating room at MultiCare Allenmore Hospital, ninth-grader Nick Thomas settled into the driver's seat of the da Vinci Surgery System and shouted the first thing that came to his mind: "This is so much better than Xbox!" 

• Seattle Mariners begin 2013 caravan with visit to Mary Bridge

  Posted on Jan 9, 2013
  

  The Seattle Mariners kicked off their 2013 caravan tour on Wednesday with a special "Get Well" visit to MultiCare Mary Bridge Children's Hospital in Tacoma, Wash.

• Titanium knees help Pierce County Exec. Pat McCarthy stay active

  Posted on Jan 7, 2013
  

  When knee pain added a limp to her step, Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy knew it was time to seek treatment. For relief, McCarthy turned to MultiCare Orthopedics & Sports Medicine at Allenmore Hospital in Tacoma.
  

• New Year Newborns: First babies of 2013 born in Tacoma, Puyallup

  Posted on Jan 1, 2013
  

  The first babies of the year arrived early this morning in the Family Birth Centers at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital and MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital.

• Photo Gallery: Staff members provide care through holidays

  Posted on Dec 25, 2012
  

  Santa Claus wasn’t the only person scheduled to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. In a hospital that never sleeps, babies need to be delivered, emergency treatment needs to be provided, food needs to be served, rooms need to be cleaned, and countless unseen services need to be provided to ensure everything runs smoothly, every day of the year.  

• Christmas spirit shines bright at Mary Bridge Children's Hospital

  Posted on Dec 24, 2012
  

  It’s not quite the same as being home for the holidays, but Santa Claus still knows how to find 32 young patients and their families who will wake up Christmas morning at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital. “It’s humbling to see how many people have donated, especially in this economy,” said one mother whose son was recently diagnosed with leukemia. “People are so generous.”

  
  

• Gift from preemie's mother reminds NICU parents they're not alone

  Posted on Dec 18, 2012
  

  “Five years ago, on Dec. 13, 2007, my daughter was born. She weighed 1 pound, 10 ounces. I was 24 weeks and five days along.”  That’s the beginning of a letter that arrived this month, addressed to the moms and the dads who have a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital. The letter accompanied a box with a special gift inside.

  
  

• Handmade quilts 'a touch of home' for children at Mary Bridge

  Posted on Dec 13, 2012
  

  “When you see that smile on that little girl’s face, that’s what it’s all about,” said Kari Wilkinson, who crafted some of the items that were made for young patients at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Center in Tacoma.

• 12-12-12 baby born at 12:12? Moms try in Tacoma, Puyallup, Auburn

  Posted on Dec 12, 2012
  

  A dozen babies have been born so far on 12-12-12 at MultiCare hospitals, and four women delivered their newborns during the 12 o'clock hour in the Family Birth Centers at MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital, MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital, and MultiCare Auburn Medical Center.

• MultiCare Profiles: Nurse's LEGO creations comfort young patients

  Posted on Dec 7, 2012
  

  “I’m a kid nurse, so obviously I like to play with toys,” says Amy McGlinchy, RN, at the Mary Bridge Child Express in Gig Harbor. “I look for anyway I can connect with the kids. Sometimes when they first arrive, they won’t even look at me. But if I show them my LEGOs, then all of a sudden we’re best friends forever.”

• Tree designers share motivation: Everyone has a Mary Bridge story

  Posted on Nov 30, 2012
  

  The 26th annual Festival of Trees in Tacoma runs through Sunday. In the past 25 years, the festival has raised more than $20 million to support young patients at MultiCare Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Center in Tacoma. We asked 11 tree designers why they volunteer to put in so much work and effort for Festival of Trees. Here's what they said.

• Today Show: Soldier surprises wife 15 minutes before birth of son

  Posted on Nov 26, 2012
  

  Watch this clip from the "Today Show," which shared this sweet story from MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital: Spc. Matt Arehart traveled from Afghanistan to surprise his wife just 15 minutes before their son was born.

• CNN documentary to air Sunday includes interview at MultiCare

  Posted on Nov 15, 2012
  

  A CNN documentary that will debut Sunday includes an interview with Dr. Stephen Anderson, who is an Emergency Department physician at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center. CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta visited MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital’s Emergency Department to film interviews for the program, which will debut on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. on CNN. The network will encore the program on Saturday, Dec. 1 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m.
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