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Salem Hospital contains 454 hospital beds and serves an area of 350,000 people. Thirty-five beds are skilled care patient beds while the remaining 419 are acute care beds. Service is provided to a three-county area that includes Marion, Yamhill, and Polk counties. The hospital is Salem’s largest employer with 2,900 employees. Admissions totaled 17,219 as of 2001 with 94,000 emergency or urgent care patients. As of 2002, 12,709 surgeries were performed and 3,320 babies delivered at the hospital.
Facilities at the hospital include one of a few psychiatric regional care centers in Oregon. Designed to replace the services of the state hospital system, the Salem facility has a 24-bed unit. The emergency department includes nearly 60 beds, and in 2007 was Oregon's busiest, with an average of 196 patients treated each day. Other services include a cancer center, a surgery center, imaging, and a center for sleep disorders.
Management is performed by the board of trustees, a fifteen-member volunteer group. The hospital also operates a rehabilitation center, an urgent care center, an MRI facility, and an outpatient center. The Oregon Department of Human Services has designated the hospital as a Level II trauma center.
Salem Hospital was granted Magnet status in 2010 and is currently 1 of 4 Oregon hospitals with this status.
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