Tuality Community Hospital
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| Geography | |
| Location | Hillsboro, Washington County, Oregon, United States |
| Coordinates | 45°31′09″N 122°58′41″W / 45.519188°N 122.978039°WCoordinates: 45°31′09″N 122°58′41″W / 45.519188°N 122.978039°W |
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| Care system | Medicare/Medicaid/charity |
| Hospital type | general |
| Affiliated university | Pacific University |
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| Emergency department | Acute care |
| Beds | 167 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1918 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.tuality.org |
| Lists | Hospitals in Oregon |
Tuality Community Hospital is a non-profit, general care medical facility located in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. The 167-bed facility was founded in 1918 in downtown, and is one of two hospitals in Hillsboro, Washington County’s most populous city. Tuality has partnerships with both Pacific University and Oregon Health Sciences University. At six stories tall, the main building is tied for the tallest in the city with the Hillsboro Civic Center.
Tuality traces its roots back to 1918 when Minnie Jones Coy started a small six-bed home-hospital in Hillsboro at Second and Oak Streets. Two years later, the facility moved to Seventh and Oak in Hillsboro, expanded to 18 hospital beds, and was renamed Jones Hospital. In 1940, the hospital opened a new building with 28 beds. That addition included a nursery and delivery room, operating rooms, and an x-ray room. Six years later, another expansion was completed, with additional surgery areas, another delivery room, and a laboratory.
In 1952, Jones died at age 57, leaving the 74-bed hospital to her estate. Two years later, the estate sold the facility for $250,000 to a non-profit community group, who renamed it Tuality Community Hospital. The hospital was expanded again in 1960, increasing the number of beds to 84. In 1970, the building was remodeled to add an intensive care (ICU) and coronary combined unit.
In 1973, a new orange brick facility was built; with that, much of the pre-1960 building was demolished. The revamped three story hospital had 93 beds, opened on February 17, 1973, and cost $6 million. In 1978, a fourth floor with 44 beds was added, and a year later, other sections of the building were expanded to allow for respiratory therapy, nuclear medicine, pathology, and biomedical engineering, among other services. With the 1982 purchase of Forest Grove Community Hospital in nearby Forest Grove, Oregon, the ownership group created the Fontus healthcare organization in 1983. Expansion of the hospital continued in 1985 when a fifth and sixth story were added to increase capacity to 181 hospital beds. The expansion included a new laboratory and expanded surgical and x-ray facilities.
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