2002 The first open-heart surgery is performed at 2007 Tuality Urgent Care, an extended-hours physician Tuality Healthcare ■ Tuality Community Hospital, in collaboration with ■ office open seven days a week, debuts in a ■ the Northwest Surgical Division of the Oregon ■ newly constructed location in eastern Hillsboro’s ■ Clinic, after a two-year planning, training and ■ Reedville district. ■ ■ History implementation process. ■ 2008 The installation of an organization-wide integrated 2002 The Tuality/OHSU Cancer Center opens on the ■ clinical information system is completed, including Highlights ■ Hillsboro campus, the result of a collaboration ■ electronic medical records, to improve patient- ■ between Tuality Healthcare and Oregon Health & ■ care efficiency and safety. ■ Science University, announced in 2000. It serves ■ 1918 Minnie Jones Coy establishes a six-bed care-home ■ ■ patients with radiation oncology treatments for 2009 To promote better community health, Tuality hospital in an old residence at Second and Oak ■ ■ the first time in western Washington County. ■ Healthcare becomes a tobacco-free organization in Hillsboro, after successfully running the office- ■ ■ The Foundation completes a $2.5 million Cancer ■ by prohibiting smoking at all of its facilities and hospital of Dr. J.O. Robb during his World War I ■ ■ Campaign to support the new center and other ■ grounds. military tour of duty. ■ ■ cancer education and treatment efforts. ■ ■ 2010 Tuality Healthcare celebrates a significant 1920 Minnie moves her care home, establishing what ■ 2003 The five-story Tuality 7th Avenue Medical Plaza ■ expansion of the Health & Education District becomes Jones Hospital, to a second, larger residence ■ ■ opens across from the emergency entrance to Tuality ■ with its partners, which now include the City on Seventh, between Baseline and Oak. It now has ■ ■ Community Hospital. The 129,000-square-foot facility ■ of Hillsboro and Portland Community College. an 18-bed capacity. ■ ■ features a second-floor skybridge to the hospital, a ■ Tuality contributed land that allows the ■ rooftop helipad, and retail space at street level. ■ completion of the city’s Intermodal Transit Facility, 1940 A new 28-bed hospital building opens, at Seventh ■ ■ It is designed to house expanding hospital services ■ one of two new structures in the district. The and Baseline, at a cost of $23,000. Among other ■ ■ on its two middle floors and physician offices on its ■ other is the second building on Pacific University’s facilities, it houses surgery and delivery rooms, a ■ ■ two top floors. ■ Health Professions Campus. nursery, an x-ray room and three kitchens. ■ ■ 2005 As an employer, Tuality Healthcare ranks for the sixth 1946 An addition is completed of an east and a north wing ■ ■ year among Oregon Business magazine’s list of 100 to the hospital, which creates a U-shaped facility. The ■ ■ best companies to work for in Oregon. hospital now contains two surgical suites and other ■ ■ surgical rooms, two delivery rooms, two ambulance 2006 Tuality Outpatient Surgery opens in Tuality 7th ■ entrances, new laboratory and x-ray rooms, and other ■ ■ Avenue Medical Plaza. This unique joint venture upgrades. ■ ■ between Tuality Healthcare and surgery and ■ anesthesiology specialists on its medical staff 1952 Minnie Jones Coy dies at the age of 57. The 74- ■ ■ brings a new convenient, comfortable option to bed Jones Hospital continues operations under ■ ■ the community for outpatient surgical care. the management of the executor of her estate, ■ ■ Commercial Bank of Oregon. 2006 Pacific University opens the first phase of a new ■ ■ Health Professions Campus adjacent to Tuality 1955 Jones Hospital is purchased for $210,000 and ■ ■ Community Hosptial, the result of an Affiliation becomes Tuality Community Hospital, a non-profit ■ ■ & Property Sale agreement signed with Tuality institution governed by an unpaid board of directors, ■ ■ Healthcare in 2005. With a new Hillsboro Clinic all of whom originally were physicians. “Tuality” was ■ ■ for Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center also 335 SE 8th Ave. the name of one of the original four districts of the ■ ■ incorporated in the new building, the three-partner Hillsboro, OR 97123 Oregon Territory, which in turn was named after the ■ ■ collaboration forms the foundation of a new 503-681-1662 Atfalati branch of the Kalapuya tribe indigenous ■ ■ Health & Education District in downtown Hillsboro. to the area. The name and its variations—Tualatin, www.tuality.org ■ Twality—are a native description of the local terrain, ■ “plains surrounded by the mountain.” 1960 The Tuality Hospital Auxiliary is formed. 1979 A construction and renovation project completes 1988 A minor remodel of Forest Grove Community ■ ■ the three-floor east wing to Tuality Community ■ Hospital enhances the Birth Center and other 1960 A brick ancillary services and surgery wing is added ■ Hospital, with expanded or upgraded facilities in ■ public areas. ■ to Tuality Community Hospital, boosting bed capacity ■ nuclear medicine, respiratory therapy, biomedical ■ ■ to 84. ■ engineering, medical records, medical library, 1988 The Tuality Health Information Resource Center ■ ■ outpatient services, admitting, pathology, a chapel ■ opens on the Hillsboro campus, a medical and 1963 Forest Grove Community Hospital opens, at a ■ and chaplain’s office, and doctors’ lounge. ■ health information library funded through ■ construction cost of $412,000, the result of the ■ ■ community contributions to the Foundation. ■ combined efforts of three local osteopathic physicians 1982 AMI completes construction of a 7,000-square-foot ■ ■ — A.V. Jackson, D.O., Fred Richards, D.O., and John ■ medical office building on the campus of Forest 1990 Forest Grove Community Hospital is renamed ■ Wood, D.O. ■ Grove Community Hospital. ■ Tuality Forest Grove Hospital. ■ ■ ■ 1967 The founding physicians of Forest Grove Community 1982 Tuality Community Hospital purchases the 48-bed 1992 Construction is completed of Tuality 8th Avenue ■ Hospital sell the facility to a partnership of local ■ Forest Grove Community Hospital from AMI for ■ Medical Plaza, a 34,000-square-foot medical office ■ businessmen, which soon begins expanding the ■ $4 million. ■ building across the street from Tuality Community ■ hospital with a new patient wing and enhanced ■ ■ Hospital, at a cost of $1.8 million. ■ emergency, intensive care and ancillary facilities. 1983 The precursor of Tuality Healthcare is formed, called ■ ■ ■ Fontus, ultimately comprising the two hospitals, 1994 Tuality Health Alliance, a unique physician- 1970 The Tuality Medical Foundation is established for ■ the Foundation, a home health agency, a medical ■ hospital-community partnership, is formed to ■ the purpose of fundraising. ■ equipment company, and other ventures. ■ improve access to affordable health plans for ■ ■ ■ residents seeking local medical and healthcare 1970 The 1960 wing of Tuality Community Hospital is 1984 Renovations at Forest Grove Community Hospital ■ services. ■ remodeled to add a combination intensive care- ■ add new behavioral medicine services. ■ ■ coronary care unit. ■ 1995 The Center for Geriatric Psychiatry opens at Tuality ■ 1985 Three years of construction is completed, adding ■ Forest Grove Hospital, a specialized unit to provide 1973 A new three-story brick Tuality Community Hospital ■ fifth and sixth floors to the south wing of Tuality ■ mental health services for older adults. ■ opens, accommodating 93 patients. Its design ■ Community Hospital. The project also expands ■ ■ incorporates the newest (1960) wing of the old ■ first-floor facilities to include new laboratory, x-ray, 1996 Construction is completed of a new 400-space ■ hospital. A community fund drive, orchestrated by the ■ emergency and surgical facilities. The expansion ■ parking garage adjacent to Tuality Community ■ Foundation, yields $275,000 in pledges to help build ■ adds 44 active beds and 44 shelled beds, providing ■ Hospital to improve convenience for patients ■ the new facility. The remainder of the old hospital is ■ a bed capacity of 181. ■ and visitors. ■ demolished late in the year. ■ ■ ■ 1986 Tuality Health Education Center opens, the result 1998 An expanded and consolidated Birth Center 1976 Forest Grove Community Hospital is purchased from ■ of a $650,000 capital fundraising campaign ■ opens at Tuality Community Hospital, on the 20th ■ the local business partnership by American Medical ■ orchestrated by the Foundation. The new facility ■ anniversary of the original Birth Center opening ■ International (AMI), a for-profit firm which soon ■ is a conversion and expansion of the old Ray’s ■ at Tuality Forest Grove Hospital. The state-of-the- ■ begins modernizing and updating the facility and its ■ Furniture Store. ■ art expansion brings additional birthing suites ■ equipment. ■ ■ and enhanced neonatal care. Although maternity ■ 1988 A 20-bed Extended Care Rehabilitation Center ■ services are no longer offered at Tuality Forest 1978 Construction is completed of a 44-bed fourth-floor ■ is established within existing facilities at Tuality ■ Grove Hospital, the LDRP-care concept from the ■ addition to the Tuality Community Hospital south wing. ■ Community Hospital. This skilled nursing unit ■ original Birth Center is retained. ■ ■ provides transitional services from acute inpatient ■ 1978 A Birth Center opens at Forest Grove Community ■ care to rehabilitation back into the community. 1999 The Raines Dialysis Center opens at Tuality Forest ■ Hospital, the first of its kind in Oregon, where moms ■ The reassignment of bed use creates a revised total ■ Grove Hospital. The hospital also marks the ■ remain in one room for the entire labor-delivery- ■ hospital licensed bed capacity of 167. ■ completion of a remodeled and consolidated ■ recovery-postpartum (LDRP) process. ■ Emergency/Acute Care unit, as well as cosmetic ■ improvements in other areas.