December 21, 2016
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Emanuel Plans New Building
Legacy Health has announced
a replacement and expansion proj-
ect on the Legacy Emanuel Med-
ical Center campus in north Port-
land that would add new surgical
suites and a new space for the
Legacy Oregon Burn Center.
Plans are to build a new
four-level facility with parking
for 100 cars on the Kerby Street
lot, adjacent to the hospital and
current operating rooms. This will
be the first major expansion on the
Emanuel campus since the open-
ing of Randall Children’s Hospital
in 2012.
“We are experiencing growth
constraints on our campus,” says
Dr. Lori Morgan, president of
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center.
Legacy Health recently con-
solidated all open heart surgery at
Emanuel in addition to adding ad-
vanced and interventional cardiol-
ogy services and a new multi-per-
son hyperbaric oxygen therapy
chamber. The campus also offers
additional outpatient services, a
comprehensive stroke center, and
a Level 1 trauma center.
Some of the features of the new
$210 million, 340,000-square-
foot facility include larger oper-
ating room suites with standard-
ized equipment; a cardiovascular
intensive care unit; seven state-
of-the-art cardiovascular catheter-
ization lab suites; and new MRIs
President Obama greets inmates during a visit July 16 to El Reno
Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla. (Official White
House Photo by Pete Souza)
A Nation of Second Chances
President issues record number of pardons
(AP) - President Barack
Obama has pardoned 78 people
and shortened the sentence of 153
others convicted of federal crimes,
the greatest number of individual
clemencies in a single day by any
president, the White House said
Monday.
Obama has been granting com-
mutations at rapid-fire pace in his
final months in office, but he has
focused primarily on shortening
sentences of those convicted of
drug offenses rather than pardons.
Pardons amount to forgiveness of
a crime that removes restrictions
on the right to vote, hold state or
local office, or sit on a jury. The
pardon also lessens the stigma
arising from the conviction.
Neil Eggleston, Obama’s White
House counsel, said Obama has
now pardoned a total of 148 peo-
ple during his presidency and has
shortened the sentences of 1,176
people, including 395 serving life
sentences.
Eggleston said each clemency
recipient’s story is unique, but a
common thread of rehabilitation
underlies all of them. Pardon re-
cipients have shown they have
led a productive and law-abiding
post-conviction life, including by
contributing to the community in
a meaningful way, he said.
“These are the stories that
demonstrate the successes that can
be achieved - by both individuals
and society - in a nation of second
chances,” Eggleston said
Commutation recipients have
made the most of his or her time
in prison by participating in edu-
cational courses, vocational train-
ing, and drug treatment, he said.
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to accommodate anesthetized pa-
tients.
Construction on the four-year
project is scheduled to begin in
2017.
An artist’s rendering shows
a new four-level medical
services building coming
to the Legacy Emanuel
Medical Center Campus in
north Portland.