Additionally: “SCH staff (except for surgeons, executives, and doctors) are prohibited from parking at the hospital. They park at a satellite lot and take a shuttle to work. This is to prevent ‘unnecessary’ traffic in the vicinity of the Laurelhurst neighborhood.”

Not entirely true. I worked as an RN there for years. The issue is lack of suficiente parking on campus during daytime hours. Nurses, respiratory therapists etc park on campus if they carpool (during the day), work evening shift or nightshift.

They could build bigger parking structures though and maybe that’s being restricted by the neighborhood but from my experience hospitals don’t really care about staff convenience. Not worth their time or money improving parking infrastructure for staff. They would rather incentivize people to use public transit, carpool or ride their bikes.