PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center

PeaceHealth Southwest Washington Medical Center
PeaceHealth System
PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in July, 2013.
Geography
Location	Vancouver, Washington, United States
Organization
Funding	Public hospital
Hospital type	Community
Services
Emergency department	Level II trauma center
Beds	450
History
Founded	1858
Links
Website	www.swmedicalcenter.com
Lists	Hospitals in Washington

PeaceHealth Southwest Washington Medical Center is a 450-bed^[1] community hospital located in Vancouver, Washington. The hospital has a total of 386 general beds^[2] and was founded in 1858.

In 2010, the hospital had about 114,000 emergency room visits, 27,000 in-patient visits, and 3,000 child births.^[1] The emergency room is the busiest ER north of San Francisco on the west coast, and the birth center is the second busiest obstetrics unit in the Portland metropolitan area.^[3] The sleep center is accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.^[4] The hospital is accredited by the joint commission, and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF).^[5] The cardiovascular rehabilitation program is certified by the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.^[6]

PeaceHealth is a certified stroke center.^[7]

History

PeaceHealth Southwest Washington Medical Center was founded in 1858 by Mother Joseph Pariseau. It is the oldest hospital in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.^[8] Originally named St. Joseph Community Hospital and then Southwest Washington Medical Center, the hospital opened at its present location in 1972 and merged with PeaceHealth in 2010 and was renamed PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center.^[8] The entire PeaceHealth system has 15,000 employees and about $2 billion in revenue.^[8] In August 2012, PeaceHealth announced plans to merge with Catholic Health Initiative.^[9] If the merger became official, the newly formed organization would have a total of 26,000 employees, 16 hospitals, and nearly $4 billion in revenue.^[9]

In 2010, the hospital began a bloodless surgery program for community members, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, that refuse blood products.^[10] In 2011, the hospital received $1.2 million in grants for the cardiology department, the neuroscience institute, and the behavioral health program.^[11]

Graduate Medical Education

The hospital operates a family medicine residency that is affiliated with the University of Washington. The program started in 1995, and has trained 89 family physicians.

HealthGrades Ratings

The HealthGrades website contains much rating data for this hospital. Twelve patient safety indicators are listed. Two of the indicators in the latest rating were worse than average, five were average and five were better than average. Much data was collected from patient experience surveys. One question asked how high the patient would rate the hospital. 75% of PeaceHealth patients gave the hospital a nine or ten versus 69% of all patients from all other hospitals in the United States. Another group of data provided in-hospital outcomes for a number of procedures from the last data collection period. One outcome was worse than expected for one type of procedure, the hospital received as expected outcomes for thirty procedure types and it received better than expected outcomes for five procedure types.^[12]

References

External links

• PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center homepage

Coordinates: 45°37′23″N 122°34′48″W / 45.623°N 122.580°W / 45.623; -122.580