Ohsu Hospital

History

OHSU History
1867 Less than a quarter century after the Oregon Trail opened and only eight years after Oregon joined the Union Willamette University welcomed its first medical students to its Salem campus

1877 Willamette Universitys medical program relocates to Portland

1880 The Oregon Railroad and Navigation company buys 360 acres of land sight unseen atop Marquam Hill Their plan was to build a railroad depot terminal and more

1887 The University of Oregon charters a state medical school in Portland and begins the University of Oregon Department of Medicine

1898 The Oregon College of Dentistry is founded in Portland

1899 The Tacoma College of Dental Surgery moves to Portland The following year both schools merge to form the North Pacific Dental College later renamed the North Pacific College of Oregon

1913 Willamette University and the University of Oregon merge programs to form the University of Oregon Medical School

1917 The present 116acre Marquam Hill campus gets its start with a 20acre tract donated by the OregonWashington Railroad and Navigation Company and an 88acre tract donated by the family of CS Jackson former publisher of the Oregon Journal
The state wide Childrens Development and Rehabilitation Center Service Program is established in the School of Medicine to provide diagnostic treatment and rehabilitation services for handicapped children

1919 The University of Oregon Medical School moves from downtown Portland to its present location on Marquam Hill in southwest Portland

The first building Mackenzie Hall was named after Kenneth AJ Mackenzie MD the railroads surgeon who had convinced the railroad company to donate the worthless land on top of the hill The first class had 66 students and a volunteer faculty of more than 40 instructors

The University of Oregon in Eugene begins offering courses in nursing

1920 The Portland School of Social Work begins offering courses in public health nursing

1923 Multnomah County Hospital opens on the Marquam Hill campus and contracts with the medical school to provide services to indigent patients
1926 The University of Oregon establishes a fiveyear program leading to a degree in nursing The following year a nursing dormitory is built on campus

Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children is built on the Marquam Hill campus and becomes the first fullservice childrens hospital in the Pacific Northwest

1928 The University of Oregon Medical School takes over operation of Doernbecher

1931 The outpatient clinic building is constructed and opens on Marquam Hill allowing medical and nursing students and residents gain practical experience

1932 The Department of Nursing Education begins

1945 The University of Oregon Dental School begins

1954 The Child Development and Rehabilitation Center facility is built on Marquam Hill

1956 The Medical School Hospital is built on Marquam Hill The University of Oregon Dental School moves from Northeast Oregon Street to its present location on Marquam Hill

1960 The Department of Nursing Education becomes the University of Oregon School of Nursing in Portland within the Oregon State System of Higher Education

1973 University Hospital is created through the merger of Multnomah County Hospital Medical School Hospital and the outpatient clinics

1974 University of Oregon Health Sciences Center is formed as an independent institution under the direction of the Oregon State System of Higher Education The schools of Dentistry Medicine and Nursing are brought together under one umbrella to create this new center The center becomes Oregons only academic health center and one of 125 in the nation

1981 The institution is renamed Oregon Health Sciences University

1987 Construction is completed on the Vollum Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research The institute is dedicated to the study of the brain and nervous system at the molecular levelamp8232OHSU is designated one of two Level 1 trauma care centers in Oregon

1989 The Center for Ethics in Health Care is created to promote interdisciplinary study of ethical issues in health care

The State Office of Rural Health becomes part of OHSU in an effort to help rural areas better address their unique health care needs

1990 Dotter Interventional Institute is established at OHSU to honor the pioneer of interventional radiology

1991 Casey Eye Institute opens on Marquam Hill

Construction is completed for the Biomedical Information Communication Center which provides library audiovisual and teleconferencing services public computer services and health informatics

1992 The Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology building opens CROET is one of the first facilities in the world to combine the use of molecular and cell biology to study the adverse effects of chemicals on the body and in particular the nervous system

The Veterans Affairs Medical Center bridge opens The 660footlong suspended pedestrian enclosed skybridge is the longest in North America

The School of Nursing building opens

1993 The School of Nursing begins coordinating a state wide integrated nursing education system that includes programs at OHSU Eastern Oregon State University Southern Oregon State University and the Oregon Institute of Technology

Oregon Health Policy Institute an interdisciplinary center of OHSU Portland State University and Oregon State University is created as a resource center for collecting analyzing and disseminating health policy information

Physicians Pavilion opens on Marquam Hill to provide modern outpatient services

1994 The Oregon Regional Primate Research Center joins OHSU as an affiliate research institute

1995 OHSU becomes a public corporation and separates from the Oregon State System of Higher Education Governance of OHSU changes from the Board of Higher Education to the OHSU Board of Directors whose members are nominated by the governor and approved by the Oregon Senate

1996 University Hospital is renamed Oregon Health Sciences University Hospital

The first of OHSUs primary care neighborhood clinics opens in southwest Portland

1997 Planning begins for the Center for Womens Health and an interim director is named The center is intended to offer a place where womens concerns can be addressed in a comprehensive comforting and supportive manner The center will use a collaborative model that encourages women to actively participate in their care

1998 The Mark O Hatfield Research Center is dedicated The center houses a variety of basic and clinical research programs that have the potential to spark new therapies It includes such programs as the Clinical Research Center the Oregon Hearing Research Center Doernbecher Childrens Hospital Pediatric Research Laboratories the Bone and Mineral Units osteoporosis studies the Oregon Stroke Center and the Oregon Cancer Center

Doernbecher Childrens Hospitals new stateoftheart pediatric medical complex is opened Built with private funding and bond revenues Doernbecher provides the widest range of health care services for children in the region

The Neurological Sciences Institute joins the university as its fifth research unit NSI researchers conduct research to advance understanding of the brain and neurological disorders Current areas of research emphasis include movement control neural development and degeneration sensory systems neural plasticity and learning

The Oregon Regional Primate Research Center becomes an OHSU research unit

2001 The Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and Neurological Sciences Institute buildings open on OHSUs west campus

OHSUs name changes to Oregon Health amp Science University as Gov John Kitzhaber signs legislation expanding OHSUs mission and paving the way for merger with Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology The merger took place July 1 2001

Oregon Cancer Center changes its name to OHSU Cancer Institute

2002 Oregon Regional Primate Research Center changes its name to Oregon National Primate Research Center

Marquam Hill is designated a quotplan districtquot by the Portland City council

2003 OHSU breaks ground for its first building in the South Waterfront District

OHSU breaks ground for a new research building on Marquam Hill campus

2004 The Schnitzer Investment Corporation donates nearly 20 acres of riverfront property in South Waterfront to OHSU

2005 Biomedical Research Building opens on Marquam Hill

2006 Peter O Kohler Pavilion opens as stateoftheart patient care facility on Marquam Hill