Clinical Facilities
OHSU Hospital
OHSU provides the most comprehensive complement of health care services in the state in its four clinical care units: OHSU Hospital, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, OHSU Clinics (medical and dental), and the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC).The OHSU Hospital and Clinics are Oregon’s main clinical teaching facilities for the next generation of health care professionals. Patients come from as far away as Alaska, Montana and California but most are from Oregon. In addition to providing primary and secondary care services to residents of the Portland area, OHSU Hospital is a major tertiary referral center, particularly in areas of transplantation (kidney, heart, liver, bone marrow), cardiology, oncology, trauma, interventional radiology, obstetrics and ophthalmology. Ancillary services are excellent, including IV, transportation and phlebotomy services.
In 2006 OHSU completed a new patient care tower (Kohler Pavilion) and a biomedical research building on the main campus. In early 2007 the Center for Health & Healing (CHH) was completed at the new South Waterfront campus on the Willamette River. A three minute aerial tram ride connects the two campuses.
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a modern facility that serves Oregon and Southern Washington and acts as a referral center for Idaho, Alaska and Northern California. The medicine, radiology, surgery, pathology, nuclear medicine and psychiatry services are fully integrated with OHSU programs. Each member of the medical staff at VAMC is a full-time faculty member at OHSU. Because OHSU Hospital and VAMC are adjacent and connected by a sky bridge, continuous exchange of attending staff exists between the hospitals. The VAMC has a high volume short stay care (SSCU) and complex diagnostic unit (CDU) that has helped obviate many admissions and facilitates outpatient diagnosis, procedures such as coronary angiography, and management of complex illnesses such as cancer and advanced heart failure.
Since its completion in the fall of 1992, the pedestrian sky bridge connecting OHSU Hospital with VAMC has greatly enhanced the flow of patients, the sharing of resources and the integration of faculty and residents activities between the two institutions. The proximity allows for a single integrated conference series easily attended by residents assigned to either facility. Many consultation services operate in a combined manner, seeing patients as a team in both hospitals. An additional benefit is the spectacular views of Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens (and if you look carefully, Mt. Rainier), Mt. Adams and the city of Portland.
