Eugene's new hospital.Byline: The Register-Guard Eugene finally has a new, centrally located hospital south of the Willamette River Willamette River River, northwestern Oregon, U.S. It flows north for 300 mi (485 km) into the Columbia River near Portland. Oregon's most populous cities are in its valley. The Fremont Bridge, a steel arch with a main span of 1,225 ft (373 m), crosses the river at Portland. . Only it isn't the same hospital city officials have been wooing for the past couple of years. The new 104-bed facility will house Lane County's only dedicated inpatient psychiatric unit and accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. inpatient rehabilitation unit. It will also operate a 24-hour emergency department and offer ambulatory surgery ambulatory surgery n. Surgery performed on a person who is admitted to and discharged from a hospital on the same day. ambulatory surgery, n and geriatric services. The new hospital is at 1255 Hilyard St. and is named Sacred Heart Medical Center Sacred Heart Medical Center may refer to: In the United States:
Wait a minute. Isn't there already a hospital named Sacred Heart Medical Center at that location? Well, yes and no. Welcome to the confusing and controversial world of hospital licensing in Oregon. Under Oregon's rules, hospitals are allowed to expand within their service areas without applying for a new license, called a certificate of need. PeaceHealth's new $350 million medical center at RiverBend in the Gateway area isn't considered a new hospital by state regulators, because Springfield is within Sacred Heart's service area. In addition to the new hospital, PeaceHealth had state permission to continue operating its Hilyard campus under the existing license, with two conditions: Only one campus could have an emergency room, and the bed total at both facilities couldn't exceed the 442 allowed under the current certificate of need. That seemed like a fine plan in 2003, but by 2005 PeaceHealth had agreed as part of a legal settlement to build a smaller hospital at RiverBend. Simultaneously, bed census at the Hilyard facility was regularly hitting 75 percent of capacity. PeaceHealth's planners went back to the drawing board and determined that to meet demand within the next four years, more beds and a full-service emergency department would be needed at the Hilyard campus. The extra beds and additional emergency room triggered the need for a new license, which the state granted on Friday. Under state rules, Sacred Heart The Sacred Heart is a religious devotion to Jesus' physical heart as the representation of the divine love for humanity This devotion is predominantly used in the Roman Catholic Church and also used in the Anglican Church. at Hilyard now becomes a separately licensed general hospital. Those same rules have a very different impact on McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center's plans to relocate to Eugene. McKenzie-Willamette's existing service area encompasses only two Springfield ZIP codes. PeaceHealth is allowed to relocate within McKenzie-Willamette's service area, but McKenzie-Willamette must obtain a new certificate of need to build a hospital outside those two ZIP codes. PeaceHealth's certificate of need request was decided before McKenzie-Willamette had secured a site and submitted a complete application. Worst-case scenario worst-case scenario n → Schlimmstfallszenario nt , from McKenzie-Willamette's perspective, is that state regulators have allocated beds to PeaceHealth that could prevent McKenzie-Willamette from earning approval for the 148 beds it seeks to operate in a new $225 million Eugene hospital. No question about it - state rules have worked to PeaceHealth's advantage since Day One. It's no one's fault, but the process hasn't inspired much confidence that health care consumers are really being protected from the overcapacity o·ver·ca·pac·i·ty n. Too great a capacity for production of commodities or delivery of services in relation to actual need: the problem of overcapacity in many large industries. and duplication of services that drive up medical costs for everyone. But speaking of driving, tens of thousands of central and south Eugene residents and University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. students and staff are undoubtedly delighted that they won't have to drive for miles through congested con·gest·ed adj. Affected with or characterized by congestion. congested ENT adjective Referring to a boggy blood-filled tissue. See Nasal congestion. streets to reach an emergency room. They'll worry about duplication of services after they've gotten their stitches, splints splints inflammation of the interosseous ligament between the small and large metacarpal bones of horses and an accompanying periostitis and exostosis production on the small metacarpal bone. The metatarsal bones are similarly but less frequently involved. and shots. |
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