Overview
Headquarters
Salem, Oregon
Category
Hospitals & Clinics
Salem Health is a not-for-profit health system that includes Oregon's award-winning Salem Health main campus in Salem, a regional referral center; Salem Health West Valley, a critical-access hospital; and Salem Health Medical Group family medicine clinics and specialists. Salem Health is guided by a 15-member volunteer Board of Trustees. The health system is the area's largest private employer, with approximately 4,000 full- and part-time employees. The doctors and hospital staff members provide high-quality, compassionate care to people in and around Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley. SALEM HEALTH – Salem Campus Salem Health is a Level II trauma center and one of the largest acute-care hospitals in Oregon with 454 acute-care beds. The hospital has 465 physicians on the active medical staff, representing 46 different specialties. In 2010, Salem Health's Salem campus received the coveted Magnet award for excellence in patient care. Only 6 percent of U.S. Hospitals have this honor from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. In 2009, Salem Health became the first hospital in Oregon and one of just 22 hospitals nationwide to become a two-time winner of the Beacon Award for Critical Care Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. In May 2011, Salem Hospital became the only Oregon hospital to earn one of the first-ever sustained improvement awards given by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for achievement in eliminating two serious hospital infections.
