UW Medicine Patient and Family Resource Center at Harborview
What's New:
• We are offering Tai Chi classes every Monday from 1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Improve your balance, help prevent falls, reduce stress. All are welcome! Call us at 206-744-2000 to let us know you are coming.
• We are working with Rehabilitation Therapy to start an Acquired Brain Injury Support Group, beginning later in 2009. Please check back for more information or call us at 206-744-2000 to have your name and phone number put on a contact list.
• We are thrilled to announce that Harborview is the first hospital in the Seattle area to begin free Writing for Wellness workshops, based on Julie Davey's book Writing for Wellness: A Prescription for Healing. Julie is a two-time cancer survivor and college professor who began teaching these classes for her fellow cancer survivors at City of Hope.
This is a focused and directed writing workshop for those who have been touched by trauma, chronic illness, cancer, or any kind of tragedy or loss. No writing experience is necesssary. The workshop consists of four 1.5 hour sessions. Please call 206-744-2000 to register.
What does the Patient and Family Resource Center offer?
- A healing and supportive environment with music from all traditions, plants, subdued lighting, and helpful staff members.
- Information about specific illnesses and injuries.
- Computers: Internet connection, health information Web site recommendations (from Harborview staff as well as from Harborview patients and families), e-mail.
- Health education classes
- Support groups (scheduled as well as open drop-in sessions).
- Information about UW Medicine resources.
- "Harborview On The Move" program to support patients and staff who are walking toward fitness using pedometers for step-counting.
- Car Seat and Literacy Programs for our pediatric population.
- General wellness and safety information.
- Community resources information.
- Patient and Family Business Center: computers with e-mail and Internet access; help with setting up a CaringBridge Web site to keep in touch with family and friends; phone, fax, copier, scanner, and printer; wifi modem access.
- Information sources and tools including books, brochures and handbooks, and Internet searches.
- Help finding local services such as laundry service, post office locations, notaries, and restaurants.
The Patient and Family Resource Center also coordinates with Social Work, Spiritual Care, and other Harborview services to make your stay at Harborview as comfortable as possible. We are moving into our 10th year of providing patient- and family- centered care to Harborview patients, families and our surrounding community.
Lodging: For information on local hotels and other lodging on First Hill and elsewhere in Seattle, please see the 'Lodging' listing.
Visit us at Ground East Hospital Room 76 (center hallway, near the Outpatient Pharmacy and Gift Shop), weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Unable to visit us during these times? Call us at 206-744-2000, fax us at 206-744-2023, or email us at rcenter@u.washington.edu.
Rev: April 2009