Providence Milwaukie Hospital

Providence Milwaukie Hospital
Providence Health & Services
Emergency Department entrance in 2009
Geography
Location	Milwaukie, Oregon, United States
Coordinates	45°26′58″N 122°37′39″W / 45.4494°N 122.6276°W / 45.4494; -122.6276
Organization
Care system	Medicare Medicaid Charity Public
Type	General
Services
Beds	77 (licensed)
History
Opened	1968 (1968)
Links
Website	oregon.providence.org/patients/facilities/providence-milwaukie-hospital
Lists	Hospitals in Oregon

Providence Milwaukie Hospital is a 77-bed acute care hospital in Milwaukie, Oregon, US. Located in the Portland metropolitan area, it is owned by Providence Health & Services. Opened in 1968, it was originally Dwyer Memorial Hospital, a private hospital, before becoming a community hospital a few years after opening.

There were competing plans for a hospital in Milwaukie in the mid-1960s, with one being Milwaukie General Hospital to be built at Stanley and Railroad avenues, while Dwyer Memorial Hospital was planned for 32nd and Harrison streets.^[1] Plans for the Dwyer Memorial Hospital won out, with construction starting in May 1967 on what was to be an $800,000, 60-bed facility.^[2] The new 62-bed hospital opened in July 1968.^[3] The $1.5-million private hospital was named in honor of A J. Dwyer, an lumberman in Clackamas County.^[3] Dwyer was then transferred in July 1971 to North Clackamas Community Hospital, Inc., a non-profit organization established to run the formerly for-profit institution as a community hospital.^[4]

In 1980, a new emergency department opened with 10 examination rooms.^[5] The hospital changed its name to Dwyer Community Hospital in January 1982.^[6] The North Clackamas Community Hospital, which operated as Dwyer Community Hospital, started talks in January 1986 with then Providence Health Care System about merging into Providence,^[7] which was consummated later that year.^[8] The market share of the hospital was 1.5% for the Portland area in 1988.^[9] The hospital added a new surgical wing and entrance in 1997, part of a $15 million expansion project.^[10] Prior to the expansion, the hospital was only licensed for 56 beds.^[11]

Providence Milwaukie started construction on a three-story, 42,000-square-foot (3,900 m²) building to house the Healing Place in February 2001.^[12] Labor strife with nurses over 19-months, including a one-day strike, ended in November 2003 with a new contract for the nurses.^[13] In May 2002, construction started on a new emergency department that was expected to cost $9 million and add 16,000 square feet (1,500 m²) to the existing ER.^[5] Providence Milwaukie was named one of the top 100 hospitals in 2004 by Solucient.^[14]

The hospital is licensed for 77 beds, but as of 2013 only had 66 beds available.^[15] Services at Providence Milwaukie include radiology, surgery, emergency, cancer treatment, pediatrics, nuclear medicine, and sleep disorders, among others.^[16] For 2012, the hospital had a total of 3,129 acute care discharges, with 9,266 patient days, and 30,399 emergency department visits.^[17] For the fiscal year ending in 2011, the hospital had total revenues of $95 million and a profit of $10.6 million.^[18] That year Providence Milwaukie also provided $11.3 million in charity care.^[18]

• List of hospitals in Oregon

• Providence Milwaukie Hospital – U.S. News & World Report