Cutting-Edge Healthcare Providers See Opportunity In Seattle

Healthcare providers see Seattle as a growth market. In the last month, Portland-based ZOOM+Care expanded its footprint in Seattle, and San Francisco-based One Medical opened its first care center in the city. Both companies have plans for more Puget Sound-area locations.

ZOOM+Care, which specializes in on-demand healthcare, opened two additional neighborhood clinics in Bellevue and Capitol Hill in May, and the company said it plans to open three more in greater Seattle by the end of the year. With these new clinics, ZOOM+Care will own and operate 12 clinics in Seattle. (It has 28 in its hometown of Portland.)

In addition to the neighborhood clinics, ZOOM+Care will bring ChatCare to Seattle. Accessible on ZOOM+Care’s web and iOS app, ChatCare provides diagnosis and treatment via online chat with ZOOM+Care doctors.

“Seattle has contributed some of the world’s most transformative innovations across technology, merchandising, art and design," ZOOM+Care co-founder and CEO Dave Sanders said. "It’s a natural fit for ZOOM+Care’s growing retail and digital healthcare operations."

For its part, One Medical opened its first Seattle-area office in May, at 1600 Seventh Ave. in Downtown Seattle. The company opened 12 offices in 2016 and another four in 2017 in other markets. The addition of Seattle marks One Medical’s 57th office and eighth metro market.

“I’ve been looking forward to bringing One Medical to Seattle," CEO Tom Lee said. "In addition to growing up here, I received my medical training at the University of Washington School of Medicine, which originally inspired me to specialize in primary care. One Medical’s technology-enabled primary care model will particularly resonate with this community.”

One Medical aims to create a localized sense of place in its offices. Its Downtown Seattle office features a wood canopy ceiling, which it says evokes the rainforest canopy of the Pacific Northwest, and a light installation made up of 206 fiber optic lights — an homage to Seattle’s area code and the number of bones in the human body — that local Seattle lighting manufacturer Graypants helped design. 

One Medical also commissioned local Seattle artists Kelda Martensen and Ryan Molenkamp to produce work for its newest office.

Find out more about why Seattle is so attractive to healthcare industry innovators at our Seattle Healthcare event at 7:30 a.m. June 28 at the Four Seasons Hotel Seattle.