A New Era of Burn Care
August 27, 2025
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For more than 50 years, Legacy Oregon Burn Center (OBC) has been the Pacific Northwest’s trusted leader in burn treatment and recovery. The expert care providers and staff restore not just health, but hope.
It’s a place where medical expertise meets human compassion. Like when Gresham firefighter Spencer Tejedas suffered severe burns on 45% of his body while responding to a residential fire. After four months of care at Legacy Oregon Burn Center, he wasable to move on to rehabilitation and eventually return home to his wife and their two boys.
“The Oregon Burn Center saved my life,” Spencer shared. “Traumatic experiences, as dark as they may seem, there's light. They hold that light and they'll show you yours that you may have lost. My light was pretty dim, but every single person brought me out of there.”
This is what OBC does best: delivering world-class burn and wound care, while nurturing the spirit behind the injury.
Why the New Facility Matters
The demand for advanced burn care is growing:
- 1,000+ patients each year
- 350+ children receiving specialized care annually
- 12,000 people reached through burn prevention education
- More than 1,000 consultations to hospitals, clinics, and urgent care centers across the region
To continue meeting this need, OBC is building a state-of-the-art home at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center designed to improve outcomes and comfort for patients and their families.
Inside the New Oregon Burn Center
Every element is crafted for healing. Some of the updated features of the facility include:
- 16 adaptable patient rooms that can instantly convert to double occupancy in a mass-casualty event
- Specialized treatment spaces such as a wound care room, rehabilitation gym, and rooftop healing garden
- A dedicated play space for pediatric recovery, enhancing OBC’s partnership with Randall Children’s Hospital
- Advanced tools like virtual reality and nitrous oxide to ease pain and anxiety during wound care
- Critical care monitoring systems for the most severely injured patients
Healing for the Whole Person
This new facility will be more than a medical unit—it will be a sanctuary for recovery. From cutting-edge technology to calming spaces that soothe the mind, it’s designed to treat the whole person, every step of the way.
With its expanded capacity and innovative features, the new Oregon Burn Center is set to define the future of burn care in the Pacific Northwest—offering survivors not just the chance to heal, but the opportunity to thrive.
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