History
In 1957, the city of Newberg opened Newberg Community Hospital, with three additions built later. The Sisters of Providence Health System (now Providence Health & Services) took over management of the facility in 1986. In 1993, the city owned hospital dealt with issues regarding administrator Mark Meinert who was accused by the city council of ethical violations concerning self-dealing involving his wife. The hospital was overseen by a city commission and still operated by the Sisters of Providence. Later in the year a member of the city council also accused the hospital’s administration with other ethics violations concerning travel and the use of public money.
In June 1994, Sisters of Providence purchased the facility from the city. At that time the hospital sat on 8 acres (32,000 m2) on Villa Road and had 35 hospital beds, two operating rooms, and covered a total of 58,900-square-foot (5,470 m2). In 2004, the hospital was one of three in Oregon named by Solucient as a top 100 hospital in the United States.
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