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Shriners Children's Portland
Shriners Children's
Hospital in 2011
Geography
Location	Portland, Oregon, United States
Coordinates	45°30′03″N 122°41′03″W / 45.500843°N 122.684262°W / 45.500843; -122.684262
Organization
Funding	Non-profit hospital
Type	Specialist
Affiliated university	Oregon Health and Science University
Services
Beds	29
Speciality	Pediatric Orthopaedics
History
Opened	1923
Links
Website	Shriners Hospital for Children (Portland)
Lists	Hospitals in Oregon

The Shriners Children's Portland is a 29-bed, non-profit pediatric hospital located in Portland, in the U.S. state of Oregon. It specializes in orthopedics, cleft lip, and palate disorders as part of the 22-hospital system belonging to the Shriners Hospitals for Children. Established in 1924, the current campus opened in 1983. The hospital is located on the Oregon Health and Science University campus, and is active in the research and development of new technology.

History

The Shriners announced plans for a hospital for crippled children in Portland in 1921. A site for the new hospital was selected in 1922 as a 10-acre (4.0 ha) parcel at NE Sandy Boulevard and NE 82nd Avenue. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 9, 1922, with construction then finishing in 1923. Landscape plantings were designed by Florence Holmes Gerke.

The hospital opened its doors on January 15, 1924 as the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children. The main focus of the hospital was orthopedics, primarily due to the crippling effects of polio. In 1948 to support the hospital, the local Shriners started the North South high school all-star Oregon Shrine Game, which later became the Les Schwab Bowl. This game continues to this day as the Oregon East-West All Star Game which occurs in August each year in Baker City, Ore.

In 1978, the hospital announced it would move from the northeast Portland location to Marquam Hill in Southwest Portland, where it could better serve its patients. The new 40-bed facility was expected to cost $6.5 million, and state regulators approved the new facility later that year. Construction began on the project in August 1980, with the estimated costs rising to $10 million and expected completion in 1982. The building opened in May 1983 as a 39-bed hospital with 80,610 square feet (7,489 m) that ended up costing $20 million. A research center was added in 1997, and that year the hospital dropped the crippled children portion of its name.

Construction began in September 2008 to add a four-story extension of the hospital over the parking garage in a project expected to cost $70 million. That project added 73,000 square feet (6,800 m), but reduced the number of beds to 29 as rooms were made private and space was made for more outpatient care. The addition opened in May 2010. In June 2014, the Gates Foundation gave the Portland Research Center at the hospital a grant of around $1 million.

Details

Shriners Hospital serves patients from Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, and British Columbia regardless of the family's ability to pay. The 29-bed hospital has surgery suites, outpatient care, a motion analysis center, orthotics & prosthetic services, rehabilitation services, living areas for family members of patients, a pharmacy, library, and classroom space. For the first nine months of 2013, the hospital performed 589 surgeries and a total of 1,908 patient days, with an additional 8,495 outpatient visits. Portland Shriners specializes in orthopaedic and cleft lip and palate conditions, but also has services for rheumatoid arthritis and post-care for burn patients. It is also home to the Portland Research Center, one of six research centers of the Shriners organization, which the Portland center has a focus on skeletal and limb development.

See also

• Doernbecher Children's Hospital
• OHSU Hospital
• Veterans Affairs Medical Center

References

1. "Portland Will Get Shriners' Hospital". The Oregonian. September 26, 1921. p. 1.
2. "Shriners Select Site of Hospital". The Oregonian. April 26, 1922. p. 1.
3. "Shriners Gather in Portland to Participate in Ground Breaking for Shriners' Hospital Today". The Oregonian. June 9, 1922. p. 2.
4. Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A. (1928). Women of the West: A Series of Biographical Sketches of Living Eminent Women in the Eleven Western States of the United States of America. Publishers Press. p. 159. Retrieved August 27, 2024 – via Wikisource. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
5. Barton, Frank W. (January 1, 1924). "Portland Building Big". The Oregonian. p. 19.
6. "Shrine Plans 3 Hospitals". The Oregonian. March 7, 1964. p. 13.
7. "Shrine Teams Change Fields". The Oregonian. July 18, 1948. p. 5.
8. Brandon, Steve (March 6, 2014). "Prep Watch". Portland Tribune. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
9. Anderson, Erik C. (February 25, 2014). "Les Schwab Bowl rosters announced". The Oregonian. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
10. ^ Sullivan, Ann (June 20, 1978). "After 54 years, Shriners Hospital plans move to hill". The Oregonian. p. C1.
11. Sullivan, Ann (August 31, 1978). "New Shriners hospital gets OK". The Oregonian. p. F2.
12. Sullivan, Ann (August 18, 1980). "Shrine project starting with move, demolition". The Oregonian. p. C8.
13. Durbin, Kathie (May 2, 1983). "Shriners Hospital moves patients to new quarters". The Oregonian. p. B12.
14. ^ "Home". Research Center. Shriners Research Center, Portland OR. Archived from the original on August 15, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
15. "Shriners Hospitals for Children". Corporation Division. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
16. "Shriners Children's Hospital Expansion and Renovation". Northwest Construction. July 1, 2008. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
17. "Shriners Hospital Expansion and Renovation". Project Gallery. Andersen Construction Company. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
18. ^ Mooney, Mary (April 16, 2009). "Portland Shriners Hospital addition built with love". The Oregonian. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
19. ^ Goldfield, Robert (December 3, 2010). "Shriners hospital gains outpatient area". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
20. Hayes, Elizabeth (June 19, 2014). "Portland's Shriners children's hospital gets Gates grant to study growth in kids". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved June 24, 2014.
21. "Shriners Hospital receives special accreditation". Portland Business Journal. July 8, 2002. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
22. "Databank 2013". Health System Research and Data. Oregon Health Authority. Retrieved May 1, 2014.
23. "Additional Services". Portland, OR. Shriners Hospitals for Children. Archived from the original on May 2, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2014.

External links

• Shriners Hospital for Children (Portland)

• 1923 establishments in Oregon
• Children's hospitals in the United States
• Homestead, Portland, Oregon
• Hospital buildings completed in 1983
• Hospitals in Portland, Oregon
• Oregon Health & Science University
• Shriners Hospitals for Children
• Buildings and structures in Southwest Portland, Oregon