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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.
The Oregon Health Plan was conceived and realized in 1993 by emergency room doctor (and subsequent Oregon governor) John Kitzhaber, then a state senator, [1] and Dr. Ralph Crawshaw, a Portland activist. [2] It was intended to make health care more available to the working poor, while rationing benefits. [1]
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
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 ]
The 554-bed facility provides a full range of services, including conventional surgery, heart treatment, critical care, neurology/stroke care/brain surgery, and care for high-risk pregnancies. Legacy Emanuel also houses the Randall Children's Hospital. It is one of the hospitals in the area where gun shot victims are routinely brought in. [8]
Plans for Oregon's first medical school in 100 years were announced as early as 2007, [33] and in January 2008 it was announced the Western University of Health Sciences would partner with Samaritan Health Services to operate an Oregon branch on Samaritan's 54-acre 'Health Sciences Campus.' [34] A year later, the planned school received ...
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.
Oregon Health & Science University Hospital (OHSU Hospital) is a 576-bed teaching hospital, biomedical research facility, and Level I trauma center located on the campus of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon.