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Grace Hospital (Seattle)

hospital in the USA

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ5591218 ↗
Source-derived summary

Grace Hospital may refer to three separate hospitals in Seattle:

Grace Hospital was a forty-bed, two-story hospital opened in 1886 and located "by Trinity Church" (presumably Trinity Episcopal Parish Church in the First Hill neighborhood). It was long defunct and the building razed by 1905.

Grace Hospital was a homeopathic hospital started by Dr. C.P Bryant in 1932. It was the only "open door" hospital on the West Coast.

Seattle Grace Hospital is the name of the fictional hospital on the American television show Grey's Anatomy.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Grace Hospital (Seattle)” as hospital in the USA. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Grace, Hospital and Seattle.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1905, 1932—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Grace, Hospital and Seattle providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Grace Hospital (Seattle)”, the useful work is to connect “hospital in the USA” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5591218. The first chronological checks are 1886, 1905 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grace Hospital (Seattle)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.