Tillamook Regional Medical Center
Tillamook
Hospital president Larry Davy has announced that effective June 3, Tillamook County
General Hospital
will change its name to Tillamook
Regional Medical
Center. The new name will reflect the growth in
service area and scope of services now being offered throughout Tillamook County and beyond.
In 1950, the
citizens of Tillamook
County opened their new
hospital at its current location. Over
the next 62 years, the services provided by the hospital have evolved to meet
the needs for quality primary and specialty health care along this region of
the Oregon
coast. A lease agreement with Adventist
Health, signed first in 1973 and subsequently renewed through 2045, provides
professional management by a local team of health care operating with not-for-profit
status.
Adventist Health
services in this region now include much more than the hospital, with a
continuum that provides health and wellness from birth through elder care. There
are five rural health clinics located in Tillamook and Lincoln
Counties, Advanced Life Support (ALS)
level ambulance services staffed 24/7 in four locations throughout Tillamook County,
home health and hospice services provided in patient homes throughout Tillamook County,
as well as cardiac services through the Northwest Regional
Heart Center.
In 2012, Hospital
leadership met with focus groups from around Tillamook
County, through which consensus grew
in support of the name Tillamook
Regional Medical
Center. The term Medical
Center speaks to the wider range of
services than just a hospital, with the term Regional embracing residents
throughout Tillamook
County and beyond.
“The input of so
many community members and leaders in this process is deeply appreciated,”
stated Davy. “This hospital that belongs
to all of us has evolved to be so much more than just a hospital in the past several
years. This name change represents our confident looking forward to the advancing
future of health and wellness services in our region.”
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