Re-Imagining Emergency Care

at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

Help expand emergency services to bring faster, even better care to more people.

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You’re invited to take an inside look at the busiest emergency department in the Portland metro area. Join Dr. Ray Moreno, chief medical officer at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, to see how the hospital is adapting to meet the needs of its growing and aging community.

No Time to Wait: Re-imagining emergency care for tomorrow

Featuring Ray Moreno, M.D.

Tuesday, April 9 | Noon – 12:45 p.m.

An online event

You’ll hear how visionary leaders and frontline caregivers are re-imagining emergency care to help patients now and in the future. Plans include:

Reducing wait times by 50% and adding space to care for 25% more adults and children who need lifesaving care
Transforming emergency care to make it more efficient and safer

Today: Busy and frequently full

Since opening our current facilities in 1994, we have responded to our community’s change and growth. We have constantly improved our processes, added dedicated spaces for children and behavioral health care, and stretched to accommodate patients from Providence’s rapidly-growing heart and stroke programs.

The emergency department at Providence St. Vincent is the busiest in the Portland metro area, accommodating more than 80,000 visits annually. But Oregon’s growing and aging population is pushing our 30 year-old facilities to their limits.

Unless we create a larger and more efficient facility, wait times will increase – perhaps to three hours or longer. More ambulances will be diverted to ,other hospitals. Crowding will undermine safety and patient satisfaction.

Message from our campaign co-chairs

For better or worse, our family has experienced a lot of emergency care, both here in Oregon and around the country, from pediatrics to adults, in less-urgent situations to life-threatening ones. Among all those hospital emergency rooms, we experienced some of the best care and the best caregivers at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.

However, our experiences there also made us aware of some of the department's limitations. So it was exciting for us to participate in figuring out how to make the Providence St. Vincent ED even better. We saw first-hand all the hard work going on, the statistics showing the need, the international expertise brought in to help with the redesign, and the modeling showing how the new ED will be successful at meeting our area’s growing future needs.

This project – based on deep analysis and thorough planning – will meet those needs for years into the future and better serve the whole community. For those looking to truly make an investment in a project with a bottom-line impact on all of us, this is the project. Join us and help re-imagine emergency care at Providence St. Vincent.

Nancy & Andy Bryant
Campaign Co-Chairs

The right care in the right place at the right time

As we grow to serve more than 100,000 patients each year, our new emergency facility will cut wait times and ambulance diversions to half of what they are today.

The new facility will be larger, with 84 total treatment spaces compared to 58 today.

It will also be safer and smarter, designed to provide faster and more efficient care. Uniform treatment rooms will speed access to equipment and supplies. A second CT scanner will deliver faster diagnoses. And a new unified mobile monitoring system will replace several aging and incompatible systems.