Refer a Patient to Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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The experts at Seattle Children’s have extensive experience caring for children with complex orthopedics conditions. Meet the team.

Comprehensive Care for All Orthopedic Conditions

Our doctors specialize in the needs of young people whose musculoskeletal systems are still developing.

Research to Improve Orthopedic Care and Outcomes

Our patients have access to safer, more effective treatments for conditions that affect children’s bones, muscles and joints.

Locations and Contact Information

Locations

Seattle Children’s Orthopedics and Sports Medicine teams provide care in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Federal Way, Olympia, Tri-Cities and Wenatchee.

Referrals and scheduling

Referral fax number: 206-985-3121
Referral questions: 206-987-2080, option 4

Provider-to-provider communication

For urgent clinical questions, defined as a clinical question that requires immediate attention due to its potential impact on patient health or safety but is not life-threatening, call our Provider-to-Provider line at 206-987-7777 or 877-985-4637 (toll free) to speak to our on-call orthopedist.
If you are directing or transporting a patient to the Emergency Department or Urgent Care, please call Mission Control at 206-987-8899 or 866-987-8899 (toll free).
For non-urgent clinical questions, please see information below on submitting an eConsult.
For co-management questions related to an existing problem for a shared patient, please send an InBasket message via EpicCare Link.
If you would like to have one of our Orthopedics and Sports Medicines team members provide in-person or virtual education with your clinic, please contact our Physician Relations team to coordinate.

How to Refer a Patient

Please note that while we encourage referrals from their PCP, patients may self-refer to Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.

We encourage use of our New Appointment Request Form (PDF or DOC) or submitting a referral via EpicCare Link. Please complete these forms in their entirety to ensure timely processing of your patient’s referral. If your clinic uses its own referral form, please ensure all fields listed in the NARF are included in your documentation.

EpicCare Link: SCCN users + Seattle Children's badge holders

EpicCare Link: All others

No pre-referral work-up is required for most conditions. If you have already done a work-up, please fax the information with the NARF. If imaging studies (CT, MRI, X-rays) have been done, please upload to PowerShare or mail disc to:

Seattle Children’s Orthopedics
OA.920.1
PO Box 5371
Seattle, WA 98145-5005

For our most current wait times by specialty and location, see our Access Dashboard.

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eConsult Information

An eConsult is a non-urgent asynchronous electronic consultation request initiated by a community provider to a Seattle Children’s specialist, submitted using EpicCare Link. It allows community providers to receive timely, efficient care guidance on lower-complexity and data-oriented clinical questions that may not require an in-person evaluation.

Orthopedics and Sports Medicine offers eConsults for the following conditions:

Mass concern
Infant hip concern
Lower extremity concern
Upper extremity concern
Spine concern

For more information on eConsults, including helpful resources and instructions on obtaining access to EpicCare Link, please visit our EpicCare Link and eConsults page.

What Your Patients Can Expect

Because Orthopedics and Sports Medicine does not require a referral, patients may call us to schedule their appointment.
If a patient has been referred to our program, they should expect a call from us when we are ready to schedule, or they can proactively call to schedule an appointment which we will match with the referral once processed. Patients who are referred to Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and have opted in to text notifications from Seattle Children’s will receive text messages as their referral works through our queue, ultimately letting them know we are ready to schedule their appointment.
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine utilizes MyChart Fast Pass, which will notify families if an earlier appointment becomes available so they can be seen even sooner by our providers.

Resources for Community Providers

We’ve provided resources below to assist you in managing patients in the primary care setting and knowing when to refer. To suggest additional resources from Seattle Children’s that would be useful to primary care providers, please email Physician.Relations@seattlechildrens.org.

Resources from Seattle Children’s

Infant hip dysplasia: Algorithm
Back pain: Algorithm
Bowed legs: Algorithm
Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis (CRMO): Algorithm
Concussion
Growing pains: Algorithm
Hypermobility: Algorithm
Limb Differences:
- CME Recording: Common Pediatric Hand Problems: Yours, Mine, Ours
Scoliosis: