St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma is the flagship hospital of the CHI Franciscan health system. The health system is exploring a merger with Seattle-based Virginia Mason. David Montesino News ...

Tacoma, Wash.-based Virginia Mason Franciscan Health has achieved success after scaling AI for several use cases. Here are four takeaways from a Dec. 29 American Medical Association article: 1. The 10 ...

Discussions continue about a proposed joint operating arrangement between Virginia Mason in Seattle and CHI Franciscan in Tacoma, which would affect Virginia Mason Memorial in Yakima. In Yakima, ...

Virginia Mason Memorial’s board of directors voted Wednesday to end the Yakima hospital’s affiliation with Seattle-based Virginia Mason and become an “independent, local health care system.” The local ...

Nine patients at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center have now died after being infected by Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria, among 33 total infections. The bacteria first appeared at the hospital’s ...

Kaitlyn Ibach, the 6-year-old great-great-great granddaughter of Tacoma suffragist Virginia Mason, carefully placed a nosegay on her ancestor’s grave and then stepped back to admire it. Kaitlyn was ...

Virginia Mason nurses are on the picket line Tuesday, calling for better pay, working conditions, and security. According to the Washington State Nurses Association, the union representing the nurses, ...

Update 6/8 10:31 a.m.: Virginia Mason has confirmed that the death count has risen to nine in a bacteria outbreak at the Seattle hospital. In a June 7 update on the outbreak, Virginia Mason Medical ...

CHI Franciscan, its parent company and Virginia Mason have announced that they’re exploring a merger that would unite the two health care providers under a yet-to-be named joint operating company. The ...

In 2001, Virginia Mason Medical Center Chairman and CEO Gary S. Kaplan, MD, FACP, FACMPE, introduced the Virginia Mason Production System, a strategy of continuous process improvement based on ...

In a case that has been watched carefully by hospital systems all over the country, Virginia Mason Medical Center has agreed to refund hospital “facility fee” charges to patients who received ...

Losing her husband to pancreatic cancer in August 2013 — six days shy of their 35th wedding anniversary — was wrenching enough, said Theresa Bigler. But learning now, more than a year later, that Rick ...