HOSPITAL GOING IN AT CLINK'S EVENT CENTER
Seattle’s stadium district is about to get back to action. As a hospital.
A temporary, 148-bed field hospital for non-COVID-19 patients, to relieve pressure on Seattle’s hospitals dealing with the pandemic, will be built in CenturyLink Field’s Event Center by the U.S. Army, officials said Friday afternoon.
About 300 soldiers from the 627th Hospital Center at Colorado’s Fort Carson arrived at Boeing Field Friday will create and staff the facility “soon,” according to a news release from the City of Seattle.
“As we continue to do everything possible to slow the spread of COVID-19 throughout Washington state, we also need to prepare our healthcare delivery system to deal with people who are sick, or may become ill, as well as all the other health needs of Washingtonians,” Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement.
Word of the potential decision was first disclosed on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow show Thursday night. Sites in Snohomish and Pierce counties were considered, according to the Emergency Management Division of the Washington Military Department, but it settled on facility less than two miles from Harborview Hospital and other health-care facilities on Pill Hill.
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