Doernbecher Children's Hospital is an academic

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children's hospital A children's hospital is a hospital that offers its services exclusively to infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In certain special cases, they may also treat adults. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th ...

associated with

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located in

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. Established in 1926, it is the first full-service children's hospital in the

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, and provides full-spectrum

pediatric Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until the ...

care. Doernbecher Children's hospital is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the United States' top pediatric hospitals in multiple medical specialties.

Rankings

In 2015–2016, the U.S. News & World Report was ranked nationally for the following medical specialties: #25 pediatric nephrology, #27

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, #31

neonatology Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practised in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The ...

, #34 pediatric

neurology Neurology (from el, wikt:νεῦρον, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix wikt:-logia, -logia, "study of") is the branch of specialty (medicine), medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of co ...

and

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, #40 pediatric

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, #49 pediatric

cardiology Cardiology () is a branch of medicine that deals with disorders of the heart and the cardiovascular system. The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart failure, valvular heart d ...

and heart surgery, and #49 pediatric

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History

The hospital opened in 1926 on Portland's

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."Children's Hospital Ready For Patients: Doernbecher Memorial Dedication Draws Throng". (July 31, 1926). ''

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'', p. 6. Doernbecher Children's Hospital developed the nation's first academic children's eye clinic in 1949 and Oregon's first

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center in 1968. In 1998, Doernbecher built a new state-of-the-art medical complex to replace the original hospital. The new facility was named as one of the major building engineering achievements of the last 100 years by the

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in 2013. Designed by

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, the building traverses a canyon with two streets running under the building.

Namesake

Construction of the six-story hospital in 1925–26 was financed primarily by a donation from a charitable trust managed by the heirs of Frank Silas Doernbecher (1861–1921), a prominent Portland businessman who established the Doernbecher Manufacturing Company in Portland in 1900. The company was Portland's leading furniture manufacturer, and grew to become one of the country's largest furniture makers. Frank Doernbecher had stipulated in his will that the money, which amounted to $200,000, be given "to some charity for the benefit of the people of Oregon"."Memorial Hospital Has

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/nowiki> Birthday Party: Doernbecher Invites Friends to See Institution". (August 3, 1927). ''

'', p. 4. The hospital's original name was the Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children, and from the start it was part of the

University of Oregon Medical School Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is a public research university focusing primarily on health sciences with a main campus, including two hospitals, in Portland, Oregon. The institution was founded in 1887 as the University of Oregon Medi ...

, which in the 1970s became

References

External links

Doernbecher Children's Hospital website
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Rankings

History

Namesake

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