Fast Facts

Salem Hospital Regional Health Services is one of the largest of Oregon's 57 acute care hospitals and operates the busiest emergency department in Oregon.

It is a not-for-profit hospital, licensed for 454 acute-care beds, and is guided by a 15-member volunteer Board of Trustees.

The hospital is the city's largest private employer, with approximately 3,500 full- and part-time employees.

There are 465 physicians on the active medical staff, representing 46 different specialties, who admit patients to the hospital. More than 275 volunteers provide non-medical support for the hospital.

The Center for Outpatient Medicine, located just east of the main hospital, houses the hospital's Regional Cancer services, outpatient surgery, Imaging, Sleep Disorders Center, a SHAPES clinic, along with a number of other outpatient programs. More than 20 physician offices and clinics are located on the upper floors of the five-story center.

The Family Birth Center, which opened in 2003, is a state-of-the-art program that offers family-health education to expectant and new parents, neo-natal intensive-care services, and also provides space to a number of community support services that benefit new families.