The status is the highest nursing honor the American Nurses Credentialing Center awards. The Magnet model requires high levels of transformational leadership, structures and processes that empower nursing, excellence in practice and outcomes and continued innovation.
The 354-bed hospital is the only children’s hospital in the Northwest to receive Magnet recognition.
The 2018 redesignation follows Seattle Children’s original recognition in 2008 and again in 2013. Magnet hospitals undergo a redesignation process every four years.
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