Legacy Health is a

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hospital system located in

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. It consists of six primary-care

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s, 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

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History

The beginnings of Legacy Health date to 1875 with the foundation of

Good Samaritan Hospital Good Samaritan Hospital or Good Samaritan Medical Center may refer to: India *Good Samaritan Hospital (Panamattom), Koprakalam, Panamattom, Kerala *Good Samaritan Centre, Mutholath Nagar, Cherpunkal, Kottyam, Kerala United States *Banner - Univer ...

. Emanuel Hospital started in 1912, which in 1971 joined with the Physicians & Surgeons Hospital to form Metropolitan Hospitals in order to build Meridian Park Hospital. Also in 1971, Emanuel purchased Gresham Community Hospital, which later became

Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center is a hospital in Gresham in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1959, the 115-bed facility in the Portland metropolitan area is owned by the nonprofit Legacy Health. Originally a for-profit hospital, it move ...

. Metropolitan Hospitals became a holding company for the hospitals in 1983, and was renamed to HealthLink in 1985. 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. In 1989, HealthLink and Good Samaritan Hospital merged to create Legacy Health System. It was renamed in 2010 as Legacy Health.

Facilities

The system's hospitals are:

Legacy Emanuel Medical Center 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, and home to the only burn center between Seat ...

Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel Randall Children's Hospital is the children's hospital at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Formerly Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital, it was renamed in 2011 during construction of the new 165-bed patient to ...

Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center 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 ...

Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center, formerly Legacy Meridian Park Hospital, is an acute care hospital in Tualatin, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1973, it is operated by Legacy Health. The facility is licensed for 150 beds, but operates only 128 ...

, Legacy Silverton Medical Center, and

in Oregon; and Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in

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. In the spring of 2017, Legacy, in partnership with three other health systems, opened the

Unity Center for Behavioral Health Unity may refer to: Buildings * Unity Building, Oregon, Illinois, US; a historic building * Unity Building (Chicago), Illinois, US; a skyscraper * Unity Buildings, Liverpool, UK; two buildings in England * Unity Chapel, Wyoming, Wisconsin, US; ...

. Legacy hosts several specialized institutes and research centers, including Legacy Cancer Institute, the Legacy Devers Eye Institute, the Legacy Weight and Diabetes Institute, the Legacy Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon, the Legacy Oregon Burn Center, Legacy Research Center, the Legacy Biomechanics Laboratory, and the Robert S. Dow Neurobiology Laboratories. It also runs Legacy Medical Group, and has major partnerships and collaborations in Legacy-GoHealth Urgent Care, Legacy Health Partners (collection of medical practices), and PacificSource HealthPlans. Legacy's hospitals and related services are accredited by the

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Legacy Health
(official website) {{authority control Companies based in Portland, Oregon Hospital networks in the United States Organizations established in 1989 Healthcare in Portland, Oregon 1989 establishments in Oregon