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Mission: Legacy emanuel hospital & health center(lehhc), established in 1912, provides acute and tertiary care in northeast portland, with 554 licensed beds. Lehhc operates randall children's hospital, level i trauma center, the oregon burn center and high-risk obstetric services including a level iii nicu. Lehhc provides a comprehensive range of inpatient, clinical and diagnostic services in numerous medical specialties and subspecialties. Lehhc is part of legacy health (legacy). Our mission:our legacy is good health for our people, our patients, our communities, and our world. We will work as a team to demonstrate our values:respect - treat all people with respect and compassion service - put the needs of our patients and their families first quality - deliver outstanding clinical services within healing environments excellence - set high standards and achieve them responsibility - be good stewards of our resources, ensuring access to care for all innovation - be progressive in our thinking an
Programs: Lehhc provides a comprehensive range of inpatient, clinical and diagnostic services in numerous medical specialties and subspecialties. Lehhc provides training for interns and residents through its nationally accredited graduate medical education program. Lehhc operates primary care teaching clinics at lehhc and in st. Helens, located approximately 30 miles from the main lehhc campus. In addition to its core hospital services, lehhc provides related health services through the following programs:the randall children's hospital; legacy research; legacy laboratory services, llc(lab); legacy metro lab; unity center for behavioral healththe randall children's hospital at legacy emanuel is a full-service children's hospital within lehhc committed to providing care in an environment sensitive to the special needs of children and their families, including premature and critically ill newborns. The randall children's hospital treats children from throughout oregon, southwest washington, alaska and idaho. Legacy research is a full-service research facility that supports a wide range of research activity. Legacy research collaborates with pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies. Legacy research is located in northeast portland (holladay park campus). Lehhc is one of four members of an emergency air transport service joint venture, life flight network llc, which serves oregon and southwest washington. In support of its mission, lehhc voluntarily provides medically necessary patient care services that are discounted or free of charge to persons who have insufficient resources and/or who are uninsured. During fiscal year 2017, lehhc provided financial assistance on approximately 16,096 patient accounts (of which about 3,000 accounts received discounts totaling 100% of costs) and resulted in lehhc incurring roughly $20,655,000 in uncompensated costs associated with this program. In addition to charity care, lehhc provides services under various states' medicaid programs for financially needy patients, medicare beneficiaries, and other government programs for which the cost of treating these patients exceeds the government payments received. During fiscal year 2017, lehhc incurred approximately $114,930,750, $52,801,200 and $939,500 in uncompensated costs attributable to medicaid, medicare, and other government programs, respectively. Lehhc also provides a variety of other community benefit activities such as medical education, donations to other charitable entities, research, and other health improvement services which totaled roughly $15,793,200 during fiscal year 2017. Lehhc is part of legacy, which collectively provided over $46 million, $199 million, $113 million, and $2 million in uncompensated care attributable to its financial assistance, medicaid, medicare, and other government programs, respectively, in fiscal year 2017.
lehhc is the sole member of legacy clinics, llc, an oregon limited liability company, which operates over forty primary care and specialty clinic sites throughout the portland metropolitan area. In addition, legacy clinics operates the hospitalist and intensivist programs at the four legacy health oregon hospitals.
lehhc is the sole member of legacy laboratory service, llc (lab), an oregon limited liability company which is located at the holladay park campus and operates and manages multiple locations throughout the greater portland area, the willamette valley and the central oregon coast. The lab also provides outpatient laboratory services to over 2,500 physicians located in oregon and southwest washington. Test and service offerings support the medical community and programs offered by the system through specialized services, such as its cytogenetics, medical genetics and cellular and molecular diagnostics laboratories, as well as clinical laboratory support. Prior to april 1, 2009, legacy laboratory services operated as a division of lehhc. Legacy metrolab (a dba of lehhc) is a nationally certified toxicology laboratory supporting business and industry clients throughout the united states.