[1] Founded in 1920, the hospital operates several accredited residency programs that train newly graduated physicians.

It houses a new Emergency Department on the 7th floor, Intensive Care Unit, and procedure and operating rooms.

[5] In 2002, hospital leadership visited Toyota's factories in Japan to study methods of improving efficiency.

Infections were linked to duodenoscopes, an endoscope used during a gastroenterology procedure called ERCP that enters the mouth, passes the stomach and ends in the duodenum.

[10] In June 2016, Virginia Mason was denied full accreditation after an inspection by the Joint Commission determined that the hospital was failing compliance in 29 of its standards.