Healthcare System Overview

An In-Depth Look into the Healthcare System

OHSU Health Hillsboro Medical Center (HMC), formerly Tuality Healthcare, is a nonprofit community hospital in downtown Hillsboro and part of the OHSU Health system. HMC gives you the pace and patient relationships of a community hospital, with direct access to the subspecialty services of Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon's only public academic health center.

Hospital Snapshot

Detail Information
Facility Type Nonprofit community hospital
Health System OHSU Health
Address 335 SE 8th Avenue, Hillsboro, OR 97123
Staffed Beds 113
Employees 1,027
Annual Discharges 6,165
Annual ER Visits About 26,500
Facility Size About 405,000 square feet
EMR Epic

Market Position

HMC holds a significant share of the western Washington County market. West of Aloha, OHSU is the primary imaging provider in the region.

Measure Share
Inpatient Market Share 37.2%
Outpatient Market Share 32.9%

Most patients come from communities close to the hospital:

Community Share of Patients
Hillsboro (97123 and 97124) 36.4%
Forest Grove 20.3%
Cornelius 7.8%
Beaverton 4.1%

HMC also draws patients from as far as Salem, Newport, Seaside, Astoria, and Columbia County. Patients from smaller coastal hospitals often travel to HMC for services their local facilities don't offer.

Growth

HMC imaging volume grew from about 68,000 studies in 2019 to 109,000 in the most recent fiscal year. Much of that growth came from coordinated scheduling between HMC and OHSU, which lets patients move to whichever site has the earliest access. As volume has grown, so has the complexity of the cases HMC sees.

HMC Locations and Services

HMC operates as part of a local network that includes:

  • Hillsboro Medical Center hospital campus
  • Seventh Avenue outpatient building with imaging, procedures, and the breast center
  • Four imaging center locations
  • Two ambulatory surgery centers
  • Two urgent care clinics
  • Home health services

Clinical services at HMC include emergency and inpatient care, diagnostic imaging, interventional radiology, a cardiac catheterization lab, echocardiography, a dedicated breast center, nuclear cardiology, neurosurgery and spine care, orthopedics, general surgery, and a mobile mammography program serving seven counties.

Connection to OHSU

HMC's radiologists are employed directly by OHSU, and the group joined OHSU in 2020. That relationship gives you:

  • Access to OHSU subspecialty services for care HMC doesn't provide
  • Shared scheduling and volume across OHSU imaging sites
  • OHSU salary, retirement, and benefits
  • Membership in an academic department while practicing in a community setting

OHSU is Portland's largest employer and operates hospitals and clinics across Oregon and Southwest Washington. HMC also participates in accountable care organizations, including Health Share of Oregon.

Teaching Environment

HMC is a community hospital and does not host radiology residents. Physician assistant students from Pacific University and imaging students complete rotations in the department.

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