“We’re seeing more patients than ever before. They’re sicker, more complex and they have more needs, so their visit takes longer. When all the hospital beds are full, they don’t have access to a room, so they stay waiting in the [ER] beds.”
-- Mary Tanski, M.D., chair of OHSU’s Department of Emergency Medicine
We Need Your Help
Today, OHSU — Oregon’s only public academic health center — is taking a big step to meet the most urgent needs of patients across Oregon and Southwest Washington, and once again, we need help from supporters like you who care about the future of health care in Oregon and our region.
Care for Complex Conditions
The OHSU hospital expansion initiative will enlarge and transform the inpatient care environment. The Vista Pavilion inpatient addition, located on OHSU’s Marquam Hill campus, will benefit patients of all ages who require the highest level of hospital care for cancer and other complex conditions.
Increasing Hospital Capacity
As you may have heard, our region critically needs more hospital capacity to serve a population that is substantially larger than it was 20 years ago. Compared to other states, Oregon and Washington have the fewest hospital beds per capita in the nation. For patients from across the Pacific Northwest, that translates into unacceptably long wait times for a bed.
Opening in 2026, the new, state-of-the-art 513,000-square-foot Vista Pavilion will increase OHSU’s bed count by nearly one third, putting OHSU’s capacity on par with that of similar health care institutions on the West Coast.
More beds will give more people timely access to advanced care, address the needs of our aging population, and keep pace with regional growth.
Critical Care for the Sickest Patients
The Vista Pavilion will help deliver critical care to the sickest patients and those facing other diseases among Oregon’s leading causes of death and disability: heart disease, stroke, neurological disorders and traumatic injuries. It will help expand access to cutting-edge treatments available nowhere else in the state, while also advancing OHSU’s vital education and research missions.
Your gift today will help expand OHSU’s capacity to break new ground in healing, teaching and research … every day.
