• The current facility (The Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center) is a 14-story building, 7 million bricks, more than 5,000 rooms, nine miles of corridor, 2.5 million square feet, 24 inpatient care units, 15 outpatient clinics, 267 beds, and a Clinical Pathology Department housed in a space the size of a football field.
  
• The new facility (The Mark O. Hatfield Research Center) is 870,000 square feet, will have 242 Inpatient Beds, and 83 Outpatient Day Hospitals; it will be seven stories high; its groundbreaking date was November 1997; and it is scheduled to be ready for phased-in occupancy by winter 2004.

Did you know that the Clinical Center has —

• 7,000 inpatient admissions a year
• 9,750 new patients a year
• 72,600 outpatient visits a year
• An average hospital stay of 7.4 days
• Some 1,200 credentialed physicians, dentists, and Ph.D. researchers
• 660 nurses
• 570 allied health-care professionals, such as pharmacists, dietitians, medical technologists, imaging technologists, therapists, medical records and medical supply staff.
• More than 1,600 laboratories conduct basic and clinical research

And that —

• As a research facility, only patients with the precise kind or stage of illness under investigation are admitted for treatment. There are no labor and delivery services and no other services common to community hospitals. All patients must be referred by their physicians.
  
• Areas of clinical study include aging; alcohol abuse and alcoholism; allergy, arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases; cancer; child health; chronic pain; deafness and other communication disorders; dental and orofacial disorders; diabetes; digestive and kidney diseases; eye disorders; heart, lung, and blood diseases; infectious diseases; medical genetics; mental health; neurological disorders; and stroke.

Some Statistical Graphs

1. Protocols by Research Type (Onsite Intramural Protocols) Fiscal Year 2002

2. Breakdown of Clinical Trials by Phase (Onsite Intramural Protocols) Fiscal Year 2002

3. Patient Activity

4. Home States of All Active Clinical Center Patients