PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center

History

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center was founded in 1858 by Mother Joseph Pariseau. It is the oldest hospital in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The entire PeaceHealth system has 15,000 employees and about $2 billion in revenue. 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. This building is located at 400 NE Mother Joseph Place in Vancouver, WA 98664.

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

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.

Sustainability

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center established its environmental sustainability program in October 2020 by initially joining Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit membership organization founded on the principles of positive environmental stewardship and best practices by organizations in the healthcare community and then establishing its first full-time role solely focused on the establishment and management of a sustainability program.

Environmental Program Awards:

2021 - Practice Greenhealth Environmental Excellence

2022 - Clark County Green Business of the Year

2022 & 2023 - Practice Greenhealth Partner for Change

2022 & 2023 - Practice Greenhealth Greening the OR

2023 - WA State Recycling Association Non-Profit Recycler of the Year

References

References

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