Legacy Health System
|
not-for-profit healthcare, not-for-profit hospitals |
|
| Industry | Healthcare |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon |
| Website | Legacy Health |
Legacy Health is a non-profit hospital system located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It consists of six primary-care hospitals and allied clinics and outpatient facilities. The system employs about 10,000 staff members, and is the second-largest system in the Portland metro area, after the Providence Health System.
The beginnings of Legacy Health date to 1875 with the foundation of Good Samaritan Hospital. Meanwhile, Emanuel Hospital started in 1912, which in 1971 joined with the Physicians & Surgeons Hospital to form Metropolitan Hospitals in order to build Meridian Park Hospital. Also in 1971, Emanuel purchased Gresham Community Hospital, which later became Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center.
Metropolitan Hospitals then became a holding company for the hospitals in 1983, and renamed itself to HealthLink in 1985.Holladay Park Hospital had joined the group by then, and closed in 1994. Physicians & Surgeons Hospital had started in 1945, and in 1986 became CareUnit Hospital of Portland for alcohol dependency treatments, which closed in 1987. In 1989, HealthLink and Good Samaritan Hospital merged to create Legacy Health System. It was renamed in 2010 as Legacy Health.
The system's hospitals are: Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, Randall Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel, Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center, and Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center in Oregon, and Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Washington. In the Spring of 2017 Legacy opened the Unity Center for Behavioral Health.
...
Wikipedia