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TUESDAY, July 19, 2005 |
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Legacy Salmon
Creek Hospital
Legacy Salmon
Creek Hospital will begin taking patients in mid-August, reports
administrator Jonathan Avery, who
earlier this year moved his family to a home in Felida. Avery’s title
within the Legacy Health System Before taking on the state’s newest hospital, Avery was vice president of clinical operations, overseeing Legacy’s 22 clinics and hospital locations in the greater Vancouver-Portland area. Of some 700 hospital employees, 200 are Clark County residents who have transferred from other Legacy locations. Hiring at the new medical facility came from a pool of 5,600 applicants, according to Avery. More than 250 physicians have been approved for privileges in the modern new plant that offers 151 single-patient rooms. Avery says the number of physicians approved is expected to climb to at least 400 as operations get underway. The hospital has been approved for 220 total beds, but 69 rooms on the top sixth floor will not be completed until demand shows the need, the administrator says. The Vancouver Clinic is completing a $25 million office just east of Legacy Salmon Creek, and the three structures on the site also offer additional physician offices. Rebound Orthopedics is also located on the Legacy campus. “Everything we will be doing here has been planned for patient care and comfort and family convenience,” Avery says. The new hospital is as computer driven as possible. While paper work is still required in terms of admission forms and insurance documentation, patients who have been pre-admitted won’t go to a central location for actual admittance, but will go directly to their rooms where bedside computer screens will be utilized to complete registration. Physicians will have total access to their patients’ medical records as well as access to information monitored of the patient’s condition after admission and after procedures. Valet parking will be provided patients and visitors. The emergency department in the southwest section of the hospital has separate entrances for ambulatory patients and patients brought in by emergency vehicles, and the emergency department is set up to handle children in one section and adults in another. Agreeing that the sparkling new rooms are the latest is technology and construction, and all with views, Avery is most proud of the neonatal intensive care units that line an west wall on the fourth floor of the hospital. Rooms are adjoining, Avery says, so that twins and triplets—who most often have low birth-weight and other problems—can be with their mothers and with their fathers as well. Not only that, the NICUs are adjacent to additional living quarters, equipped with washers and dryers, which are available for other family members. The entire fourth floor is given over to women’s services: 14 labor and delivery rooms, 16 post-partum rooms, two C-section operating rooms and 15 private patient rooms. Meanwhile, across the county at Mill Plain Boulevard and NE 92nd Avenue, Southwest Washington Medical Center is well underway with its $150 million expansion, where an eight-story patient and surgery tower is emerging. SWMC has had to bear the brunt of providing indigent medical assistance on its own over the years. Now with Legacy Salmon Creek opening, Legacy Health Systems is able to funnel some of its foundation support into community medical needs. A ceremony officially marking the completion of Legacy Salmon Creek is from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at the hospital at 2211 NE 139th Street. For further information, call (503) 415-5710. National, state
unemployment dips The national unadjusted unemployment rate decreased from 5.1 percent in May to an even 5 percent in June, and the state unadjusted unemployment rate dropped from 5.6 percent to 5.5 percent over the same period, Washington State Employment Security commissioner Karen Lee reported today. Clark County’s unadjusted unemployment rate, however, rose in the same period from 5.9 percent to 6.4 percent. Although Clark County has 500 more employed in June, compared to may, 182,500, the county had an increase in unemployed workers from 11,400 to 12,400. Clark County has a total estimated workforce of 194,900 persons. Calendar Author Jeff Benedict discusses hidden costs of casino gambling in a free lecture at 7 p.m. this evening in Fort Vancouver High School, 5700 E 18th Street. Lecture is sponsored by Citizens Against Reservation Shopping, which opposes the proposed Cowlitz Casino Resort. n Clark County commissioners meet in informal session at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 20, in Conference Room B, Public Service Center, 1300 Franklin Street. n Aaron Meyer & Bill Lamb headline the Qwest Noon Concert in Esther Short Park from noon until 1 p.m. Wednesday, July 20.
Tuesday Headlines
at home and from around the world: International Festival canceled, replaced with box social--Columbian, Brett Oppegaard Local HP workers may survive bug cuts--KATU Development of Fourth Plain Corridor gets council approval--Columbian, Jeffrey Mize New-home construction unchanged in June--USA TODAY, AP, Martin Crutsinger
Accounting Caley & Associates, James Caley
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Peterson & Associates,
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Tax Advisors, PLLC, CPAs Property Tax/Cost Segregation 750-6884 Attorneys Miller Nash LLP. Steve Horenstein, 699-4771 Banks
First Independent Bank,
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Coldwell Banker Commercial Wally Hornberger, 699-4494 Norris Beggs & Simpson, Roger Qualman, 699-7181 Retirement and Estate Planning First Pacific Associates, Mark Martel, CFP, (360) 254-2585 Retirement and Inheritance Planning Andy Nygard, CFP, (360) 695-6431 Signs
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the Portland-based, nonprofit healthcare organization, which built the
$275 million hospital, is vice president and site administrator for
Legacy Salmon Creek.