Childbirth Center at UW Medical Center - Montlake

Contact Information

206.598.4616

Location Hours

Monday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Tuesday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Wednesday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Thursday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Friday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Saturday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
Sunday 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
BirthCenteratMontlake
Main Hospital, 1959 NE Pacific St., 6th Floor, Seattle, WA 98195
206.598.7664 fax
Overview
Care Providers
Directions

If at any point your symptoms worsen or you feel like you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 or proceed to the nearest emergency room.

Services available at this location include:

  • 24-hour anesthesia services
  • Antepartum care
  • Birth center tours
  • Breastfeeding support
  • Care for multiples (twins, triplets or more)
  • Maternal fetal medicine
  • Midwifery
  • Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) level IV
  • Obstetrics
  • Postpartum care
  • Private birth suites
  • Soaking tubs for birth
  • Vaginal birth after Cesarean (VBAC)

A Birth Center with Complete Pregnancy Care and GYN Services

The Birth Center at UW Medical Center - Montlake is dedicated to patient- and family-centered care during labor, birth and recovery, providing you with the birth experience you desire. Our services are right-sized for women who need care for either low or high-risk pregnancies. 

We offer private, roomy suites for your comfort during and after giving birth, with the amenities you expect. Additionally, we offer ongoing GYN care for prenatal conditions such as placenta previa and gestational diabetes.

Should your baby need extra care after birth, you can rest assured that our Level IV neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is nearby and able to provide all of the special monitoring, treatments and care your baby needs.

We invite you to take a virtual tour of our birth center before choosing where to have your baby.

*For patients in labor and/or those who may need to talk to a provider after hours, please contact 206.598.4616 if you are delivering at Montlake.
If you are delivering at Northwest please call your providers office. NW OBGYN patients 206.668.6644 NW Midwifes patients 206.668.6670

Driving Directions

Note: Please plan extra travel time for building construction and road closures.

Learn more about the building construction.

UW Medical Center is at 1959 N.E. Pacific St., Seattle, WA 98195. See map.

From Interstate 5:  

  • Take Exit No. 168B (Bellevue /Kirkland) onto State Route 520. 
  • Take the first exit off SR 520 to Montlake Boulevard. 
  • Turn left onto Montlake Boulevard and continue north across the Montlake Bridge.
  • At the traffic light ahead, two lanes will turn left onto N.E. Pacific Street. You'll want to be in the right of those two left-turn lanes.
  • From N.E. Pacific Street, turn right at the second "Patient Parking" directional sign onto N.E. Pacific Place, then immediately turn right into the Triangle Parking Garage, connected to the medical center via a pedestrian tunnel.
  • OR you can access the Surgery Pavilion Garage by turning left at stop sign just past the Emergency Department entrance.

From the East via State Route 520 Westbound:

  • Exit at Montlake Boulevard and continue north across the Montlake Bridge.
  • At the traffic light ahead, two lanes will turn left onto N.E. Pacific Street. You'll want to be in the right of those two left-turn lanes.
  • From N.E. Pacific Street, turn right at the second "Patient Parking" directional sign onto N.E. Pacific Place, then immediately turn right into the Triangle Parking Garage, connected to the medical center via a pedestrian tunnel.
  • OR you can access the Surgery Pavilion Garage by turning left at stop sign just past the Emergency Department entrance.

Public Transit

Note: Please plan extra travel time for building construction and road closures.

Learn more about the building construction.

UW Medical Center – Montlake is served by many King County Metro Transit bus lines. Use Metro's Trip Planner to learn which buses can get you to the medical center.

Shuttle Services
The Health Sciences Express free shuttle service assists faculty, staff, patients, families and caregivers in traveling between UW Medical Center, UWMC-Roosevelt clinics and Harborview Medical Center. See the shuttle's schedule.
 
A separate, free shuttle service similarly transports faculty, staff, patients, and caregivers between UW Medical Center - Montlake and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center - South Lake Union. See the shuttle's schedule.

Parking Directions

Triangle Garage

The Triangle Garage is located underground, across N.E. Pacific Street from UW Medical Center – Montlake. Enter from N.E. Pacific Place, one block west of Montlake Boulevard. A pedestrian tunnel leads from the garage to the third (main) floor of UW Medical Center – Montlake.

ADA parking is available on both floors of the garage.  Valet parking is available on the upper level from 7:30 am to 5:30 pm, Monday through Friday. Regular parking fees apply.

Triangle Garage parking staff work from 6:00 am to 1:00 am Monday through Friday, and from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm on Saturday.

Pay as you leave. Garage parking is free on Sundays, and after hours parking is available. The garage has a vehicle height restriction of 6-feet, 8 inches. Reach the Triangle Garage at 206.598.3460. 

Surgery Pavilion Garage

The Surgery Pavilion Garage is primarily for Emergency Department patients, surgery patients and their visitors. Access the lot from N.E. Pacific Street and turn left at the stop sign after passing the UW Medical Center Emergency Department entrance.

ADA parking is located on all three parking levels, although Level P1 has limited availability for oversized vehicles. The maximum vehicle height is 9-feet-6-inches on Level P1 and 6-feet-7-inches on Levels P2 and P3. For vehicles over 9 feet 6 inches tall, please park on the S1 level of the South Campus Garage located directly behind UWMC – Montlake, off of Columbia Road.

Surgery Pavilion Garage parking staff work from 6:00 am to 1:00 am Monday through Friday. Pay the attendant as you leave.  After-hours parking is available.  Hours are subject to UW’s special events calendar and schedule. Reach the garage at 206.598.0892.

Patient/Visitor Parking Rates

UW Medical Center parking lots are available to patients and visitors. Discount coupons, available at clinics and nurses’ stations, enable parking at these rates:

  • 0–30 minutes: Free
  • 31–60 minutes: $5
  • 1–1.5 hours: $7.5
  • Over 1.5 hours: $10
  • Daily maximum with a UWMC - Montlake patient discount coupon: $10
  • Daily maximum without patient discount coupon: $20.25

Walking Directions

Note: Please plan extra travel time for building construction and road closures.

Learn more about the building construction.

UW Medical Center – Montlake's main entrance and its parking facilities enable easy access for all visitors. Disability parking is available at the Triangle and Surgery Pavilion garages, and valet service is available at the front entrance of the medical center.

We provide adaptive equipment for patients who are deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, or who have speech impairments. TTYs (regular print, large print visual display, Braille), amplified headsets, flashing light and vibrating phone alert signalers, and TV decoders are available. Patients can request disability accommodations by calling 206.598.6970 (voice). Washington Relay Service, at 800.833.6388, provides TTY text service to the medical center.