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The University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) is a hospital in the University District of Seattle, Washington, United States. It is one of the teaching hospitals affiliated with the University of Washington School of Medicine, and is located in the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center.

The UWMC opened on May 5, 1959, having grown out of the medical school that the university opened in 1946. It was home to the world's first pain center and also the location of the world's first long-term kidney dialysis, developed by UW professor Belding H. Scribner, M.D. Since the addition of the eight-story Montlake Tower to the complex in September 2012 at a cost of $210 million, the UWMC has had more than 570 beds available for patients' use. The 2007 issue of U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" ranked the UWMC 10th out of over 5,000 hospitals nationwide. Many UWMC programs score highly in specialty rankings, such as primary care, rehabilitation medicine, and neurology/neurosurgery.

In May 2013, it was announced that UW Medicine, which owns and operates the UWMC, and PeaceHealth would join forces with one another in a "strategic affiliation." The American Civil Liberties Union criticized the merger, due to PeaceHealth being "directed by the Catholic Ethical and Religious Directives."