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Tuality Community Hospital is a non-profit, general care medical facility located in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. The 167-bed facility was founded in 1918 in downtown, and is one of two hospitals in Hillsboro, Washington County’s most populous city. Tuality has partnerships with both Pacific University〔Suh, Elizabeth. Pacific University seeks expansion. ''The Oregonian'', September 7, 2007.〕 and Oregon Health Sciences University.〔Harrington, Patrick. Tuality Healthcare, OHSU open cancer center. ''The Oregonian'', October 7, 2002.〕 At six stories tall, the main building is tied for the tallest in the city with the Hillsboro Civic Center.〔Bermudez, Esmeralda. Plan highlights. ''The Oregonian'', November 16, 2006.〕 ==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.〔(About Us. ) Tuality Healthcare. Retrieved on March 24, 2008.〕 Two years later, the facility moved to Seventh and Oak in Hillsboro, expanded to 18 hospital beds, and was renamed Jones Hospital. In 1940, the hospital opened a new building with 28 beds. That addition included a nursery and delivery room, operating rooms, and an x-ray room. Six years later, another expansion was completed, with additional surgery areas, another delivery room, and a laboratory.〔 In 1952, Jones died at age 57, leaving the 74-bed hospital to her estate.〔 Two years later, the estate sold the facility for $250,000 to a non-profit community group, who renamed it Tuality Community Hospital.〔Tuality Hospital begins in home. ''Hillsboro Argus'', October 19, 1976.〕 The hospital was expanded again in 1960, increasing the number of beds to 84. In 1970, the building was remodeled to add an intensive care (ICU) and coronary combined unit. In 1973, a new orange brick facility was built; with that, much of the pre-1960 building was demolished. The revamped three story hospital had 93 beds, opened on February 17, 1973, and cost $6 million.〔 In 1978, a fourth floor with 44 beds was added, and a year later, other sections of the building were expanded to allow for respiratory therapy, nuclear medicine, pathology, and biomedical engineering, among other services. With the 1982 purchase of Forest Grove Community Hospital in nearby Forest Grove, Oregon, the ownership group created the Fontus healthcare organization in 1983.〔 Expansion of the hospital continued in 1985 when a fifth and sixth story were added to increase capacity to 181 hospital beds. The expansion included a new laboratory and expanded surgical and x-ray facilities. Construction of the Tuality Health Education Center adjacent to the hospital continued expansion in 1986.〔 A new birthing center was opened in May 1987 with ten single room suites for expectant mothers that was named state of the art by the American Institute of Architects. In 1988, a 20-bed Extended Care Rehabilitation Center was created within the facility, reducing the number of hospital beds to 167. In 1996, a 400 car parking structure was built at the hospital campus. Two years later, an expanded birthing facility opened and MAX Light Rail expansion included a stop at the hospital. In 2002, the first open heart surgery at the hospital was performed and a cancer treatment center was opened as a joint project with Oregon Health Sciences University.〔〔Harrington, Patrick. Tuality will pair up for heart surgery: The health care group seeks to serve the Hillsboro area’s rapidly growing and aging population. ''The Oregonian'', July 27, 2000.〕 In 2003, a medical office building was finished adjacent to the hospital, with expanded doctors offices and a sky bridge to the main hospital. Tuality added eight hospitalists to the staff in 2005.〔New Tuality doctors will stay in-house. ''The Oregonian'', March 3, 2005.〕 In 2006, Pacific University opened their new Health Professions Campus at Tuality Hospital for housing their College of Health Professions.〔(Health Professions Campus. ) Pacific University. Retrieved on November 21, 2007.〕 The hospital was given permission by the city to add a mid-block crosswalk on Eighth Street in 2008. The crosswalk connects the hospital building to the medical office building, and Tuality will later close the street entirely to traffic on that block.〔 Construction began on the Hillsboro Intermodal Transit Facility in 2009, which was a joint project of Tuality Healthcare, Pacific University, and the city that added additional parking along with facilities to support bicycle use. The facility opened in September 2010. In August 2010, the area around the campus became part of Hillsboro's Health and Education District.〔 The hospital earned an A rating in December 2012 for safety from the Leapfrog Group. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tuality Community Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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