Doernbecher Children's Hospital
Oregon Health & Science University
Main entrance
Geography
Location	Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States
Coordinates	45°29′59″N 122°41′19″W / 45.4998°N 122.6885°W / 45.4998; -122.6885
Organization
Care system	Public
Type	Pediatric
Links
Website	ohsu.edu/doernbecher
Lists	Hospitals in Oregon

Doernbecher Children's Hospital is an academic teaching children's hospital associated with Oregon Health & Science University located in Portland, Oregon. Established in 1926, it is the first full-service children's hospital in the Pacific Northwest, and provides full-spectrum pediatric care. Doernbecher Children's hospital is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the United States' top pediatric hospitals in multiple medical specialties.

Rankings

In 2015–2016, the U.S. News & World Report was ranked nationally for the following medical specialties: #25 pediatric nephrology, #27 pediatric oncology, #31 neonatology, #34 pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, #40 pediatric pulmonology, #49 pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, and #49 pediatric urology.^[1]

History

The hospital opened in 1926 on Portland's Marquam Hill.^[2] Doernbecher Children's Hospital developed the nation's first academic children's eye clinic in 1949 and Oregon's first neonatal intensive care center in 1968. In 1998, Doernbecher built a new state-of-the-art medical complex to replace the original hospital.^[3] The new facility was named as one of the major building engineering achievements of the last 100 years by the International Federation of Consulting Engineers in 2013.^[4] Designed by ZGF Architects, the 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m²) building traverses a canyon with two streets running under the building.^[4]

Namesake

Construction of the six-story^[2] hospital in 1925–26 was financed primarily by a donation from a charitable trust managed by the heirs of Frank Silas Doernbecher (1861–1921), a prominent Portland businessman who established the Doernbecher Manufacturing Company in Portland in 1900.^[5] The company was Portland's leading furniture manufacturer,^[6] and grew to become one of the country's largest furniture makers.^[5] Frank Doernbecher had stipulated in his will that the money, which amounted to $200,000, be given "to some charity for the benefit of the people of Oregon".^[7] The hospital's original name was the Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children, and from the start it was part of the University of Oregon Medical School,^[7] which in the 1970s became Oregon Health & Science University.

See also

• Frank Silas Doernbecher House

References

External links

Media related to Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Wikimedia Commons

• Doernbecher Children's Hospital website