Providence Portland Medical Center, located at 4805 NE Glisan St. in the
North Tabor neighborhood of
Portland, Oregon
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, is a full-service medical center specializing in
cancer
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and
cardiac care
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. Opened in 1941, the hospital is licensed for 483 beds, and has over 3,000 employees. There are approximately 1,000 physicians on staff. The campus is also home to Providence Child Center, a 58-bed facility dedicated exclusively to medically fragile children. Providence Portland Medical Center is part of the
Providence Health & Services
Providence Health & Services (since 2016: Providence St. Joseph Health) is a not-for-profit, Catholic health care system operating multiple hospitals across seven states, with headquarters in Renton, Washington. The health system includes 51 ho ...
in
Oregon
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. Providence Portland Medical Center is one of four nursing magnet hospitals in Oregon, the others being
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, is a non-profit, acute care teaching hospital in an Unincorporated area, unincorporated section of Washington County, Oregon, in the West Haven-Sylvan, Oregon, West Haven-Sylvan area north of Beaverton, Oregon ...
,
Veterans Affairs hospital, and
OHSU Hospital in Portland.
History
The Catholic
Sisters of Providence order was asked to expand their healthcare offerings on the east side of Portland in 1937.
At that time, Archbishop Edward D. Howard requested that the order construct a hospital, originally to be named St. Vincent Hospital East, in reference to the existing St. Vincent Hospital (now Providence St. Vincent Medical Center), which at that time was located in
Northwest Portland
Northwest Portland is one of the sextants of Portland, Oregon, United States.
Northwest Portland includes the Pearl District, most of Old Town Chinatown, the Northwest District, and various residential and industrial neighborhoods. A range of ...
.
[ The next year the Sisters' plans to build a hospital in the Laurelhurst area were approved and they began buying property at Northeast 47th and Glisan.][
Providence Hospital opened in September 1941.][ A new cancer tower was constructed in the late 2000s, which added 150 new inpatient beds. The 11 story tower houses cancer, surgery, and state-of-the-art patient care facilities. In 2011, the last nuns housed at a convent located within the main building left the facility.][
]
Details
The hospital has 483 licensed beds (397 are staffed),[ Services offered at Providence include oncology, surgical, maternity, women's health, behavioral health, cardiac care, radiology, orthopedics, pharmacy, sleep disorders, urology, and vascular, among others.]
See also
* List of hospitals in Oregon
References
External links
Hospital-data.com
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1941 establishments in Oregon
Hospital buildings completed in 1941
Hospitals established in 1941
Hospitals in Portland, Oregon
Portland