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A round-trip ticket costs $8 but is free for OHSU patients and certain visitors; OHSU employees and students ride free by showing their ID badges. [6] The tram cost $57 million to build—a nearly fourfold increase over initial cost estimates, which was one of several sources of controversy concerning the project. [7]
A third hospital, the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center [26] is located next to the main OHSU campus; this hospital is run by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and is outside the auspices of OHSU. A 660 feet (200 m) pedestrian skybridge connecting OHSU Hospital and the VA Medical Center was constructed in 1992. [27]
Oregon Health & Science University's (OHSU) Center for Health & Healing is a 412,000-square-foot (38,300 m 2) medical building in the South Waterfront district of Portland, Oregon. [1] It is connected to the main OHSU campus on Marquam hill by the Portland Aerial Tram .
[5] 1981 was also the year that OHSU was designated [6] a Level 1 trauma center: one of only two in the state of Oregon. [7] [8] In 1995, OHSU became a public corporation [9] separate from the Oregon State System of Higher Education. Dispensing with the Board of Higher Education as the governing body of the institution, OHSU adopted a board of ...
Portland Aerial Tram car descends towards the rising South Waterfront district. The Portland Aerial Tram is an aerial cableway used to connect the South Waterfront district with Oregon Health and Science University on Marquam Hill above. The cableway is two-thirds of one mile (1 km) long and was opened to the public in January 2007.
Given the $15,197 average cost of a stay in Mass. and average hourly private sector wage of $33.92, it would take 386 work hours to pay the bill.
By 1967, the hospital was planning an expansion plan consisting of a 19-block medical complex, estimating a $12.25 million cost. [15] Per a 1970 report, the hospital had one of the largest obstetrics practices in the Pacific Northwest, with 3,650 births taking place in the hospital that year. [16]
View of Marquam Hill and OHSU from the Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge. Marquam Hill is a populated hill located just south of Downtown Portland, Oregon, United States in the Homestead neighborhood. It is also called Pill Hill because it is home to Oregon Health & Science University, Portland VA Medical Center and Shriners Children's Portland.