Northwest Hospital & Medical Center will become part of UW Medicine, a deal that will make the Northgate-area hospital a member of the region's leading teaching and research medical institution.

The male driver is in satisfactory condition and no one in the hospital was injured, said University of Washington Medicine spokeswoman Susan Gregg. Northwest Hospital is part of UW Medicine.

More than 1,300 patients at Seattle's Northwest Hospital got notifications encouraging them to test for hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV.