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Beneficence is a concept in research ethics that states that researchers should have the welfare of the research participant as a goal of any clinical trial or other research study. The antonym of this term, maleficence , describes a practice that opposes the welfare of any research participant.
Beneficence can come into conflict with non-maleficence when healthcare professionals are deciding between a “first, do no harm” approach vs. a “first, do good” approach, such as when deciding whether or not to operate when the balance between the risk and benefit of the operation is not known and must be estimated.
Legacy Health is a non-profit hospital system located in Portland, Oregon, United States. [1] It consists of six primary-care hospitals, a children's hospital, and allied clinics and outpatient facilities. The system employs about 14,000 staff members, and is the second-largest system in the Portland metro area, after the Providence Health System.
Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, commonly known informally as Good Samaritan Hospital or Good Sam, is a 539-bed teaching hospital located in northwest Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1875 by the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon , it is a part of the Legacy Health . [ 1 ]
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center is a hospital located in the Eliot neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.Founded in 1912, it is one of only two Level I trauma centers in the state of Oregon, [i] and home to the only burn center between Seattle and Sacramento. [6]
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, is a non-profit, acute care teaching hospital in an unincorporated section of Washington County, Oregon, in the West Haven-Sylvan area north of Beaverton, Oregon and west of Portland, Oregon, United States [a] – and within the Portland metropolitan area.
Providence Portland Medical Center, located at 4805 NE Glisan St. in the North Tabor neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, is a full-service medical center specializing in cancer and cardiac care. Opened in 1941, the hospital is licensed for 483 beds, and has over 3,000 employees. There are approximately 1,000 physicians on staff.
Portland Shriners Hospital: 1923 29 — No Pediatric facility Providence Portland Medical Center: 1941 483 — No Providence St. Vincent Medical Center: 1875 523 — Yes Randall Children's Hospital: 1960 165 — No Part of Legacy Emanuel Medical Center; renamed in 2011