History
Lower Umpqua Hospital District is a not-for-profit 20-bed critical access hospital located on the central Oregon coast. As the full-service healthcare facility for coastal Douglas County, Lower Umpqua Hospital is proud to offer the full spectrum of modern health services with a comfortable, friendly small-town ambience. Historical Timeline In the early 1950's, a non-profit corporation called the Lower Umpqua Association was formed to deal with the need for local medical care in coastal Douglas County. In 1954, a Lower Umpqua Area Hospital District was formed that included the Reedsport, Winchester Bay, Gardiner and Scottsburg areas. With the help of a Hill-Burton grant, a federal grant to aid in building rural area hospitals, the hospital was built in the early 1960s. The hospital, built in the form of a modified Maltese cross, opened February 3, 1964 with eighteen acute care beds and twenty-two nursing home beds. Dr. Rickard W. McLean was the first Chief of Staff.
Specialties
As a Partners in Care medical facility, Lower Umpqua Hospital District believes that the principles of human caring, when integrated with contemporary scientific medicine, can enhance the process of healing within the health care system. Every patient is an individual with a unique set of human, as well as medical needs. Key elements of Partners in Care include: Promoting choice and personal control Promoting access to information Providing a supportive, humanistic environment that fosters compassion and comfort: Home-like surroundings that nurture and heal Promoting healing of the body and mind Services include Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Emergency Room (ER), Family Resource Center, Hospitalists, Laboratory, Medical Records, Nursing Services, Nutritional Services, Radiology, Rehabilitation Services, Respiratory Therapy, Retail Pharmacy, Surgical Services