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Salmon Creek Hospital construction on
target
Aerial photo by Sahnows Aerial Photos of Banks, Ore.
Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital taking form at 24-acre site at NE
139th Street. Twin towers rise from 220-patient structure,
center. Parking is to the right, new medical office building to
the left.
Construction of Legacy
Salmon Creek Hospital, at NE 139th Street east of NE 20th Avenue
underway for the past year is on target for a mid-2005 opening,
according to Legacy Health System spokesperson
Maggie Huffman.
Huffman says the
six-story hospital, the medical office building, and
1,500-vehicle parking lot will be completed simultaneously.
In addition to acute care
and emergency facilities, the hospital will offer neo-natal
intensive care and cancer diagnosis and treatment.
The main access road from
NE 20th Avenue, 139th Street, is being improved and a new access
street, NE 23rd Avenue, is being built to connect to NE 134th
Street.
The hospital complex,
which will employ about 900 when in full operation, is owned by
Portland-based nonprofit Legacy Health System, which also
operates five hospitals, including Emanuel and Good Samaritan
Medical Centers.
Baugh Construction,
Portland, general contractor, and subcontractors have 275
workers at the site.
Southwest Washington
Medical Center’s expansion planning, approved by the state
Health Department at the same time Legacy earned approval for
the Salmon Creek hospital, is already underway, with additional
parking now in use.
Construction of a new
eight-story patient tower at its Mill Plain campus, as well as
additional covered parking, including valet parking, is expected
to begin early next year.
Cost of SWMC’s expansion
will be $142 million.
The medical center is
Clark County’s largest employer, with over 3,100 employees.
Kaiser Permanente, which
has several medical offices and clinics in Clark County, has
announced it expects to build a new hospital either in the
Portland metropolitan area, possibly in Clark County.
Don Carlson to run for
state senate reelection
Don Carlson, completing
his first four-year term as a Republican state senator from the
49th District, will announce he is running for reelection at
1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 13, in front of the Center for
Educational Leadership, 2921 Falk Road.
Carlson, a former school
teacher, who previously had been a 49th District representative,
is being challenged by Clark County Commissioner
Craig Pridemore, a
Democrat.
New amphitheater
traffic plan to be tested during New Heights Church Easter
service
The Amphitheater in Clark
County will test proposed changes in its traffic management plan
during the New Heights Church Easter service Sunday, April 11.
More than 2,500 vehicles
are expected to arrive for the service that begins at 1 p.m. The
traffic plan will be in effect from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
Motorists whose
destinations are NE 179th Street between NW 11th Avenue and NE
Delfel Road, or NW 164th Street between NW 11th Avenue and NE
10th Avenue, are encouraged to obtain local access passes by
calling Kiet Callies,
816-7000.
The new plan is an
attempt to correct unacceptable traffic flows during heavily
attended amphitheater concerts.
A public hearing on
amphitheater traffic planning will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, April
22, in the county Elections Building, 1408 Franklin Street.
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