The Cascade Valley Hospital is a

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Arlington, Washington Arlington is a city in northern Snohomish County, Washington, United States, part of the Seattle metropolitan area. The city lies on the Stillaguamish River in the western foothills of the Cascade Range, adjacent to the city of Marysville. It i ...

, operated by

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. The 48-bed hospital is located south of downtown Arlington on a property; Cascade Valley also operates five

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s and a freestanding ambulatory surgery center.

History

The Arlington General Hospital was built in 1909 as the first hospital-specific building in

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. A new hospital, named Cascade Valley, was built at the current campus in 1958, and was incorporated into the Snohomish County Public Hospital District No. 3 in 1964. The hospital campus was rebuilt in 1987, and the district later expanded to cover most of northern Snohomish County in 1996. A major $45 million renovation was completed in 2010, adding a new building and remodeling the hospital to expand emergency services to accommodate a growing number of patients. A

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was built in 2015 to accommodate

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ed patients. In the 2010s, Cascade Valley remained as the last independent hospital in Snohomish County. The hospital announced in 2013 that it would merge with

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, but the merger was cancelled by PeaceHealth over issues with electronic records. After evaluating new partners, including

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and

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, Cascade Valley announced in 2016 that it would merge with

, the operator of

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. The two hospitals had already partnered in 2011 to build a medical clinic in Smokey Point, near Arlington, and Skagit has run outpatient

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programs for Cascade in the past.

Facilities

Cascade Valley Hospital operates one general hospital in Arlington, and five clinics in Darrington, Granite Falls, and Smokey Point.

References

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