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Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Portland VA) is a 160-bed, acute care medical facility [1] opened in 1929 by the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs, located on Marquam Hill in Portland, adjacent to Oregon Health & Sciences University, and is connected to Oregon Health & Science University Hospital via a skybridge. The original hospital was ...
Veterans' health care in the United States is separated geographically into 19 regions (numbered 1, 2, 4–10, 12 and 15–23) [1] known as VISNs, or Veterans Integrated Service Networks, into systems within each network headed by medical centers, and hierarchically within each system by division level of care or type.
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.
After becoming a holding company for the hospitals in 1983, the group became HealthLink in 1985. [23] At that time the group operated Emanuel, Mount Hood Medical Center, Meridian Park, Holladay Park Medical Center, and Physicians & Surgeons Hospital. [23] In 1988, Emanuel became one of only two Level I trauma centers in Oregon. [3]
Hospital Est. Beds Trauma level [1] Teaching hospital Notes Ref. Adventist Medical Center: 1893 302 — No Legacy Emanuel Medical Center: 1912 554 1 No [2] Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital: 1875 539 — Yes [3] Portland Shriners Hospital: 1923 29 — No Pediatric facility Providence Portland Medical Center: 1941 483 — No Providence St. Vincent ...
On January 31, 1971, the hospital used in-part large military buses capable of carrying 18 stretchers at a time to transport patients to the new hospital building. [7] The facility at that time had a single, 13-story tower that consisted of seven floors of patient rooms. [7] The new building had 400 hospital beds, while the old hospital had 420 ...
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 ]
Holladay Park Hospital had joined the group by then, and closed in 1994. Physicians & Surgeons Hospital had started in 1945, and in 1986 became CareUnit Hospital of Portland for alcohol dependency treatments, which closed in 1987. [5] [6] In 1989, HealthLink and Good Samaritan Hospital merged to create Legacy Health System. [2]