Jeff Poltawsky ’81 is leading efforts to build a $300 million, state-of-the-art children’s hospital in Tacoma, Washington.

Jeff is president of Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital and Health Network, which is part of the MultiCare Health System. The current 82-bed children’s hospital shares operating rooms and imaging suites with Tacoma General Hospital, but the new, freestanding facility will be dedicated just to kids. It will have operating rooms, intensive care and medical surgical care units, as well as a pediatric trauma center, emergency department, mental health crisis center, heart program, cancer center, and more. The children’s hospital is currently being developed using lean-led design with ground-breaking slated for early 2022.

The new Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital will open in the fall of 2024.