Overview
Providence Center for Health Care Ethics is housed on the campus of Providence St. Vincent Medical Center and includes a kitchen, separate dining and living areas, and office space. These facilities allow the Center to host a variety of programs, as well as meetings and retreats. Catering is available for events through Providence St. Vincent Medical Center.
The Center features a small medical ethics resource library and a conference room. The resource library includes publications, periodicals and papers on a wide variety of topics in medical ethics, particularly those related to end-of-life care and ethical decision-making.
Reservations
To reserve the Ethics Center, please call Patty at 503-216-1913 for availability. There is no fee to use the facility. For tips on catering, parking, conference supplies and accessing the building, please read these guidelines.
A Tour of the Providence Center for Health Care Ethics
Dedicated in December 2000, Providence Center for Health Care Ethics houses an ethics library of books and journals. These resources complement Providence Health & Services' medical libraries, the collection at the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health and Science University and other local collections.
After Providence St. Vincent was relocated from northwest Portland to its present site in 1971, the house was moved to the hospital campus. For nearly 20 years the structure was home to the Sisters of Providence who served at Providence St.Vincent. The house was renovated in 2000 to accommodate its new purpose as an ethics center.
