Accepting new patients

Nicole Place, M.D. (she/her)

Accepting new patients

  • Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, School of Medicine

Specialty

  • Family Medicine

Clinical focus

  • Addiction Medicine
  • LGBTQ+ Care
  • Women's Health
  • Maternity / Obstetrics
  • Birth and Delivery (Family Medicine)

Locations and contact

I see patients at
Scappoose Family Health Center
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About me

Dr. Nicole Cairns (she/her) is a family physician. She is passionate about partnering with her patients and their families to improve all aspects of their health and wellbeing.

She has special interests in pregnancy care, women’s health and addiction medicine. Dr. Cairns also finds working with kids, adolescents, LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming folks, and multigenerational families very rewarding.

What she loves about Obstetrics:

"Pregnancy and giving birth can be exciting, scary, and vulnerable. I feel honored to be part of that journey with my patients and to care for them and their growing families after."



Dr Cairns is always accepting new pregnant patients.

When she is not working, Dr. Cairns enjoys spending time with her partner and their adorable dog, hiking all the beautiful trails of the Pacific Northwest, and cooking.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • B.S., 2014, University of Minnesota
    • M.D., 2018, University of Minnesota

Memberships and associations:

  • American Academy of Family Physicians
  • Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
  • Minnesota Medical Association
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Insurance

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If you schedule an appointment and your health insurance does not include OHSU Health, you may have to pay more than if you go to a provider in your insurance network. 

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Ratings and reviews

Overall: 4.8 out of 5 (52 Ratings, 23 Reviews)

The patient ratings score is an average of all responses to the question "How likely would you be to recommend this provider to your family and friends (on a scale of 0 to 10)" on our nationally-recognized NRC patient surveys.

  1. Great person

  2. Dr. Cairns was caring and answered my questions.

  3. She listens and explains all options clearly for me.

  4. Outstanding!

  5. She explains things very well and is easy to talk with.

  6. Absolutely phenomenal. Both nurses and doctors are amazing at their job, they deserve a raise.

  7. Dr Nicole Cairns is an excellent doctor and the support staff is excellent.

  8. She is amazing

  9. I love my doctor! She is very knowledgeable, thorough, kind and caring.

  10. Dr. Cairns Is an amazing doctor. She always listens to my needs and is very diligent and caring.

  11. I love this small OHSU clinic here in Scappoose. The staff is very helpful and friendly. Dr Cairns is very helpful, caring and understanding. A big thank you to all the staff for all you do.

  12. DR. Cairns is my primary doctor, and I am so thankful. She is always incredibly kind and knowledgeable. She makes me feel listened to, and I trust her to give me the best possible care. She Is a good primary doctor.

  13. Dr Cairns was awesome!

  14. Dr. Cairns asks excellent questions and is very easy to talk to. She is thorough and has good communication skills, listens well, takes patient's problems seriously.

  15. Very professional. Listens to concerns & take appropriate actions eg prescribing meds & follow up to calibrate my blood pressure cuff to ensure accuracy of BP readings.

  16. Excellent Service

  17. Dr. Cairns is always prepared and thorough. She is undoubtedly the best primary care physician that I've ever had and I'm 66 years old!! I have recommended her to several friends.

  18. Absolutely phenomenal. The doctor is well versed on my medical history and works with me to solve problems. The nurse I worked with is BY FAR my favorite, he is amazing at his job and so good with conversation. Smart and capable when it comes to medical knowledge and able to explain things I don't understand.

  19. Clean , safe environment and kind helpful employees

  20. Dr Cairns listens & always answers all questions. Very astute & easy to talk to while professional & knowledgeable about all of my medical issues.

  21. Compassionate, efficient, and knowledgeable

  22. Great:) thank you guys!

  23. I told her I had bad stomach pains and she determined it was gastroenteritis and recommended the bart diet! My disentary continued on that diet for 2 more weeks and I went to immediate care 2 weeks later. There was nothing found wrong with me and changing back to alight diet has got me back to feeling good again. I have had other things happen with her but haven't paid too much attention to them.