Audiology

Your sense of hearing plays an integral part in how you interact with the world each day. If you’re experiencing diminished hearing, it can be frustrating, embarrassing, and even feel isolating, but it’s a common health issue. Whether you’re just noticing changes to your hearing, or it’s been going on for a while, our team is here to help.

With help from the specialists at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, you can work toward a personalized solution to address your hearing loss and attain the best level of hearing possible for you. Our specialists have a deep understanding of the hearing and ear conditions that affect patients of all ages. These specialists include: 

• Audiologists who help diagnose, treat, and monitor hearing conditions
• Neurotologists and skull-based surgeons who provide medical and surgical care for hearing and balance disorders, and diseases affecting the skull and temporal bone

At Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, you will find comprehensive audiology services to address all your hearing needs. Our audiologists provide services for:

• Children with hearing loss
• Adults with hearing loss
• Bone-anchored implants
• Cochlear implants
• Comprehensive hearing aid program

Otologist and neurotologists are trained to use both medical and surgical interventions to treat diseases affecting the:

• Ears and hearing system
• Balance (vestibular) system
• Lateral skull base and temporal bone

The lateral skull base and temporal bone is the bony area surrounding your ear and brain and the space inside your skull between your ear and your brainstem. Diseases affecting this area include vestibular schwannomas, paragangliomas, meningiomas, and other more rare tumors.

You can find audiology services from Virginia Mason Franciscan Health at a variety of locations in the Seattle-Tacoma area.

• Virginia Mason Medical Center – Seattle
  Lindeman Pavilion
  1201 Terry Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
  Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
  Appointments: 206-223-8802

• Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Medical Pavilion – Federal Way
  33501 First Way South, Federal Way, WA 98003
  Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
  Appointments: 253-874-1750

• Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Medical Pavilion – Issaquah
  100 Northeast Gilman Blvd., Issaquah, WA 98027
  Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 3 p.m.
  Appointments: 425-557-8040
  
  
• Franciscan Ear, Nose & Throat Associates at St. Joseph
  1608 South J Street, Fifth Floor, Tacoma, WA 98405
  Hours: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  Appointments: 253-274-7948
  
  
• Franciscan Ear, Nose & Throat Associates at St. Anthony
  11511 Canterwood Blvd NW, Suite 320, Gig Harbor, WA 98332
  Hours: Tuesday, 1 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  Appointments: 253-857-1370

• Franciscan Ear, Nose & Throat Associates at St. Clare
  11311 Bridgeport Way Southwest, Suite 309, Lakewood, WA 98499
  Hours: Monday - Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
  Appointments: 253-985-2900

Get answers to your questions about ear conditions or hearing loss and schedule an appointment with your Virginia Mason Franciscan Health specialist today.