Big-box store rescaled to serve as a preventative-care clinic

A major trend in the healthcare sector is for hospitals to bring their outpatient services closer to the communities and patients they serve. 

Seattle Children’s Hospital, one of the nation’s leading pediatric hospitals, has embraced the idea of opening preventive-care clinics throughout the greater Puget Sound area. In 2013, the opportunity arose to adapt a 37,000-sf former Circuit City in Federal Way, Wash., 45 miles south of the hospital’s Bellevue home base.