Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center
Legacy Health
Geography
LocationVancouver, Washington, United States
Coordinates45°43′15″N 122°38′53″W / 45.72071°N 122.64807°W / 45.72071; -122.64807
Organization
TypeGeneral
History
Opened2005
Links
ListsHospitals in Washington

Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center is an acute care hospital in Vancouver, Washington, United States. It is part of Legacy Health, a locally owned, nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon.[1][2]

Legacy Salmon Creek opened in 2005 as the first hospital built in Washington state in almost 20 years. The six-story, 460,000-square-foot hospital and 180,000-square-foot medical office complex cost $285 million.[3] In the hospital's first full fiscal year, Legacy Salmon Creek averaged 80 patients a day. By 2015, the average hospital census was more than 160 patients a day.[3]

Legacy Salmon Creek employs more than 1,200 people.

Among its services are Legacy Cancer Institute, a children's-only emergency room, neonatal intensive care unit, birthing center, total joint (orthopedics) surgery center, breast health center and surgical care.

References

  1. ↑ "Vancouver's Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center food and nutrition team provides delivery service for at-risk patients". Food Management. February 11, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Clark County Public Health testing seven people for coronavirus". The Columbian.
  3. 1 2 "Legacy Salmon Creek turns 10". The Columbian. August 14, 2015.


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