Portland area hospitals??

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Dh is thinking of trying for a travel assignment in Portland or the suburbs. Is there any great hospitals there for ICU or ER nurses? He's got a wild hair before we completely commit to moving back to Chicago... :p Would love to hear any input on hospitals that are good to work at, pay wise, etc...

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I have a good friend who works at OHSU in Portland. She floats between ER, NICU, PP, mother/baby. The hospital is unionized. She makes more that twice the hourly pay that I do, and she loves it there.

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Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) & Emmanual (a Legacy Health Systems facility) both have good ERs that get a lot of the hairy stuff.

When it comes to "general" ER they are all pretty interchangable.

The main operators (mult. hospitals) in the area are:

Legacy Health Sytems www.legacyhealth.org and

Provedence http://www.providence.org/home/default.htm

Then again, if you are going to be in the area and have a WA licence there is SW WA Medical Center in Vancouver http://www.swmedicalcenter.com/ (good cost of living, no state income tax and right across the river from Portland)

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Thanks for the input! I'll check them out. DH is ALL about union, that's for sure!!

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