Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
| Providence St. Vincent Medical Center | |
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| Providence Health & Services | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | West Haven-Sylvan, Washington County, Oregon, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°30′36″N 122°46′18″W / 45.510°N 122.7718°WCoordinates: 45°30′36″N 122°46′18″W / 45.510°N 122.7718°W |
| Organization | |
| Care system | Medicare/Medicaid/Charity/Public |
| Hospital type | General |
| Affiliated university | None |
| Services | |
| Beds | 523 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1875 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.providence.org/stvincent |
| Lists | Hospitals in Oregon |
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, is a non-profit, acute care teaching hospital in West Haven-Sylvan in the Portland metropolitan area in the state of Oregon, United States. The hospital was founded in 1875 by the Sisters of Providence, a Roman Catholic sisterhood from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is Providence Health & Services’s largest Oregon hospital.
Dedicated on July 19, 1875, it was the state's first permanent hospital, founded in the Northwest district of Portland, Oregon, by the Sisters of Providence, a Roman Catholic sisterhood from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
In January 1971, the original campus in northwest Portland was closed and the current facility opened in Washington County. On January 31, 1971, the hospital used in-part large military buses capable of carrying 18 stretchers at a time to transport patients to the new hospital building. The facility at that time had a single, 13-story tower that consisted of seven floors of patient rooms. The new building had 400 hospital beds, while the old hospital had 420 beds.
In 2004, the hospital was one of three in Oregon named by Solucient as a top 100 hospital in the United States. In November 2009, the employees at the hospital, in conjunction with Medline Industries, produced the "Pink Glove Dance" video (set to "Down") to raise awareness of breast cancer, with the video going viral on the Internet and making national news.
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