Tuality Community Hospital

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**Tuality Community Hospital**
Tuality Healthcare
Location


Place	Hillsboro Wsahington County, Oregon, (US)
Organization
Care System	Medicare/Medicaid/charity
Hospital Type	general
Affiliated University	Pacific University
Services
Emergency Dept.	Acute care
Beds	167
History
Founded	1918
Links
Website	Homepage
See also	Hospitals in the United States

Tuality Community Hospital is a non-profit, general care medical facility located in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. This 167 bed facility founded in 1918 in downtown is the only hospital in Hillsboro, Washington County’s most populous city. Tuality has partnerships with both Pacific University and Oregon Health Sciences University.

1 History
2 Facility
3 Key facts
4 Tuality Healthcare
5 See also
6 External links
7 References

[edit] History

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 moves to Seventh and Oak in Hillsboro and expands to 18 hospital beds and is named Jones Hospital. Next, in 1940, the facility opens a new building with 28 beds. This addition also contain a nursery and delivery room, operating rooms, and a x-ray room. Six years later another expansion is completed which adds additional surgery areas, another delivery room, and a laboratory.

In 1952 Jones dies at the age of 57, leaving the now 74 bed hospital in the hands of her estate. Two years later the estate sells the facility for $250,000 to a non-profit community group and is re-named Tuality Community Hospital. Then in 1960 the building is expanded again to increase the number of hospital beds to 84. Next, in 1970 the building is remodeled to add an intensive care (ICU) and coronary combined unit at the hospital.

Then in 1973 a new orange brick facility is built. With this much of the pre-1960 building is demolished. The new three story hospital has 93 beds. In 1978 a fourth floor with 44 beds is added, and a year later the other sections of the building are expanded to allow for respiratory therapy, nuclear medicine, pathology, and biomedical engineering among other services. With the purchase of Forest Grove Community Hospital in nearby Forest Grove, Oregon, in 1982, the ownership group creates Fontus in 1983 as a healthcare organization.

Expansion of the hospital continued in 1985 when a fifth and sixth story were added to increase capacity to 181 hospital beds. The expansion also a new laboratory and expanded surgical and x-ray facilities. Expansion continued the next year when the Tuality Health Education Center was built next door to the hospital. Then in 1988 a 20 bed Extended Care Rehabilitation Center is created within the facility, reducing the number of hospital beds to 167. In 1996 a 400 car parking structure is built at the hospital campus, and two years later an expanded birthing facility opens and MAX Light Rail arrives to Hillsboro with a stop at the hospital. Then in 2002 the first open heart surgery at the hospital was performed and a cancer treatment center opens as a joint-project with Oregon Health Sciences University. In 2003 a new 129,000 square foot medical office building is finished adjacent to the hospital with expanded doctors offices and a sky bridge to the main hospital. Then in 2006, Pacific University opened their new 105,000 square foot Health Professions Campus at Tuality Hospital for housing their College of Health Professions.^[1]

[edit] Facility

Tuality Community Hospital.

Tuality Community Hospital is located in a six story orange-brick building in downtown Hillsboro between Tualatin Valley Highway. The facility contains a department of nuclear medicine,^[2] a cardiac intensive care unit, a obstetrics unit, department of orthopedics, department of neurology, a cardiology department, and emergency care.^[3] Additionally, there is a private heliport for transporting patients to and from the facility.^[4] Tuality Hospital contains a 22 bed short term skilled nursing unit.^[5]

Tuality Community Hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO)^[3] and the College of American Pathologists.^[6]

[edit] Key facts

Hospital beds: 167
Annual total patient discharges: 7,287^[7]
Annual total patient days hospitalized: 28,908^[7]
Quality indicators: (2005)^[8]
- Heart attack death rate: average
- Balloon angioplasty death rate: average
- Heart bypass surgery death rate: average
- Gastro intestinal hemorrhage death rate: average
- Congestive heart failure death rate: average
- Hip fracture death rate: average
- Pneumonia death rate: average
- Stroke death rate: average

[edit] Tuality Healthcare

Main article: Tuality Healthcare

Tuality Hospital is operated by Tuality Healthcare. Tuality Healthcare is a not for profit, community healthcare organization that operates one other hospital, a health foundation, medical plazas, urgent care centers, an education center, and various other medical offices.^[9] Additionally they operate Tuality Health Alliance, a medical provider network in the Portland metropolitan area.^[9]