Giving new life to the region’s critical life-saving resource
For over 50 years, Legacy Oregon Burn Center (OBC) has been a crucial, life-saving resource in the Pacific Northwest. OBC provides critical services such as:
- Specialized burn and wound care for severe burns other hospitals cannot treat effectively
- Burn prevention education and outreach to 12,000 people annually
- Long-term psychosocial and clinical support for burn survivors
- Over 1,000 consultations annually to hospitals, clinics and urgent care centers across the region to help improve care for burn patients
A new state-of-the-art facility is being built within the Emanuel Medical Center campus with improved patient spaces and technology to holistically support healing for patients and their loved ones.
Project need and impact
Improved space
Depending on the severity of their injuries, patients stay with us anywhere from a week to several months, so it is important that our facility is equipped to support their healing and comfort.With your support, 16 beds will open in the new OBC, offering life-saving treatment for more critically injured patients. The facility will be adaptable and each room will be able to serve either medical/surgical patients or critical care patients, depending on the need. Although they will generally be used as single occupancy rooms, all patient rooms can also accommodate double occupancy during a mass casualty event.
Holistic healing
The facility will also include a wound care/treatment room, a rehabilitation gym, rooftop healing garden.
Additionally, the new OBC will include a play space for pediatric patients, further enhancing the OBC’s partnership with Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel by providing a place for Child Life specialists to work with young burn patients.
Advanced technology
The OBC is essentially a specialized intensive care unit. The new facility will have the most recent technological equipment needed for burn and wound treatment, including:
- Critical care monitoring systems for the most severely injured patients
- Virtual reality and nitrous oxide equipment to help alleviate pain and anxiety during wound dressing changes
- Radiant heat panels above patient beds to help keep their surroundings at the recommended 91° while allowing the rest of the room to remain at a comfortable temperature for visitors and staff
Please give
Your contribution will help OBC provide advanced and specialized life-saving care to patients experiencing a burn injury. Thanks to donors and champions like you, we are able to help heal our patients physically, emotionally and spiritually. Our community’s commitment to our work transforms the lives of our patients and their loved ones every day.
For additional information, please contact:
Heather G. Martin, JD, Executive Director
503-413-5585 | hgmartin@lhs.org
