Measures of Success
As a community service oriented institution,
Oregon Health & Science University
- Provides more than 200 community service programs to enhance community-based care, serve Oregon’s most vulnerable citizens and provide access to health care education
- Provides approximately 23,000 health and sciences professionals from
- throughout the region with continuing education opportunities to expand their knowledge, improve their skills, and gain access to the expertise available at Oregon’s only academic health center
- Partners with approximately 1,100 Oregon teachers to help children better understand science
- Tours approximately 3,500 high school and college students on OHSU campuses for them to better understand the university and its offerings
- Creates a pipeline for students to understand and pursue future careers in health and science with more than 40 programs, many targeted at youths in disadvantaged or under served communities
- Has nursing campuses in five locations around Oregon to educate students where they live and work. Approximately 800 students are enrolled in OHSU nursing programs
- Sends each of its medical students into rural communities for five weeks to train alongside local physicians to learn from, and better understand, the needs of patients and health care professionals in settings outside urban areas
- Partners with communities to improve the quality and availability of health care for rural Oregonians through the Office of Rural Health. In the past year the office recruited 14 new health care practitioners to rural communities, saving $350,000 in recruitment costs, and linking them with providers who in many instances are a lifeline for the community
- Serves people in Oregon, Alaska and northern Nevada through the OHSU Oregon Poison Center. More than 67,000 calls were made to the center in the past year, with more than half related to poison exposures in children. National studies have shown that every dollar spent for poison center services saves more than seven dollars in health care costs
- Answers nearly 33,000 calls from regional health care providers throughout the Northwest seeking expertise from the OHSU medical community through the OHSU Physician Consult Service
- Sends students on rural rotations to receive part of their education in under served communities to help ease provider shortages. Studies show that students who received part of their education in rural areas are more likely to practice there in the future
- Provides more than 1,000 surgeries to repair cleft lip, cleft palate and craniofacial anomalies each year, through the Child Development and Rehabilitation Center. The center is the region’s only program and clinic to provide long-term treatment for these disabilities
- Screens thousands of pre-schoolers around the state for vision impairment, through a partnership with the Oregon State Elks
- Hosts Give Kids a Smile Day, to bring low-income children to the clinic for treatment
As an educational institution,
Oregon Health & Science University
- Is the only place in Oregon that grants doctoral degrees in medicine, dentistry and nursing
- Is the only academic health center in the nation with a school of science and engineering focused exclusively on human and environmental health
- Awards 60 percent of health and science degrees to Oregon residents
- Educates more than 2,700 students and trainees
- Provides approximately 23,000 health and sciences professionals from throughout the region with continuing education opportunities to expand their knowledge, improve their skills, and gain access to the expertise available at Oregon’s only academic health center
- Teaches approximately 1,000 interns, residents, fellows and clinical trainees
- Partners with approximately 1,100 Oregon teachers to help children better understand science
- Tours approximately 3,500 high school and college students on OHSU campuses for them to better understand the university and its offerings
- Creates a pipeline for students to understand and pursue future careers in health and science with more than 40 programs
- Has nursing campuses in five locations around Oregon to educate students where they live and work. Approximately 800 students are enrolled in OHSU nursing programs
- Sends each of its medical students into rural communities for five weeks to train alongside local physicians to learn from, and better understand, the needs of patients and health care professionals in settings outside urban areas
- Welcomes 75 dental students into its DMD program each year
- Partners with Oregon State University to provide a joint degree in pharmacy through the College of Pharmacy and with Oregon Institute of Technology to provide allied health programs, including clinical laboratory science/medical technology, and emergency medicine technology
- Offers a graduate certificate, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical informatics; and grants a master’s degree in physician assistant studies through the School of Medicine
As a health care facility
Oregon Health & Science University
- Is the place where patients reap the benefits of world-class knowledge for the most complex, and the most common of health care needs. Without OHSU, many Oregonians would have to travel out of the region for their care
- In 2007 there were 665,760 patient visits to OHSU hospitals and clinics
- Was awarded the Consumer Choice Award by the National Research Corporation for the past eight years
- Sees patients from every county in Oregon. Traveling clinics reach several parts of the state to provide specialized care not available in more remote locations so that people can be cared for in their own communities
- Is home to the only Oregon hospital to appear in the 2007 America’s Best Hospitals rankings by US News and World Report. The last ranking was the 12th consecutive year OHSU Hospital has been included in the report
- Includes the Center for Women’s Health, which is designated a National Center of Excellence for Women’s Health
- Is conducting 200 clinical trials through the OHSU Cancer Institute to help bring new treatments and cures to patients sooner
- Saved 100,000 lives through the discovery of Gleevec, an anti-cancer medication developed at the university
- Is the only place in Oregon for children and adults to receive a bone marrow transplant
As a research facility
Oregon Health & Science University
- Is in the top 20 in competitive research funding rankings according to data available from the National Institutes of Health, a national barometer of productivity and excellence in research
- Research funding has increased more than seven-fold since 1990.
- Received received $307 million in research funding in 2007. Nearly 94 percent of these dollars flow into Oregon from out of state
- Breakthroughs, innovations or discoveries are announced on average every three days
- Is home to approximately 1,500 scientists, who are working on 4,100 basic and applied research projects.
- Had 132 invention disclosures in 2007, more than in any previous year in the university’s history — and four times the number in 2000
- Filed 66 US patent applications in 2007
- Experienced nearly double the income it received from commercialization of inventions licensed by the university, from $719,800 in 2006 to $1.23 million in 2007.
- Formed five new start-up companies based on OHSU intellectual capital in 2007
- Intellectual capital has led to 64 companies since the early 1970s, with 33 of those companies formed since 2000. Most OHSU startups are based in Oregon
- Has license-related income of $14 million
- Is home to a 12 Tesla magnet, one of only two of its kind in the world. This magnet enables scientists to have a much closer view to assess functional and molecular properties of diseases non-invasively
An impact on the economy
For OHSU, the mission to heal, to teach, to discover and to serve is the reason the university exists. As a natural consequence of this work, OHSU also offers something else: an economic return
Oregon Health & Science University:
- Provides family-wage jobs, opportunities for career growth and excellent benefits to more than 12,400 employees
- Is Portland’s largest and the state’s fourth largest employer (excluding government)
- Has an operating budget of $1.4 billion
- Intellectual capital has led to 64 companies since the early 1970s, with 33 of those companies formed since 2000. Most OHSU startups are based in Oregon
- Has license-related income of $14 million
- Receives $307 million in research funding, most of which comes to OHSU from out of state
- Received nearly $110 million in support from donors in 2007 through the OHSU Foundation and Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation
- Has a $3.2 billion annual economic impact on the state.
- Earns $32 in gifts, grants, contracts and service funds for every dollar the state invests in OHSU
- Returns more than $45 million back to the state each year through employee income taxes and other payroll taxes
