Samaritan Health Partners history

In 1989 the first joint effort occurred with the opening of community trauma and oncology registries.

22, 1993, the two organizations made a stronger commitment as they formed the Community Health Alliance (CHA); it was committed to bring better health care and an improvement in health to all people of the community.

The first joint project after the formation of CHA was in 1994, with the creation of Community Ambulance Service (CAS), which provides ambulance and EMS educational services.

In 1995 the second one was erected to provide office space for the growing number of physicians.

Born of a common mission to provide exemplary health care and keep decision-making local, Lebanon’s Mid-Valley Healthcare and Corvallis’ Samaritan, Inc. were the first to merge in 1997 to form the not-for-profit Samaritan Health Services.

Good Samaritan Health Services (Good Samaritan) began providing medical care for uninsured and underserved individuals in 1998 at the Fairmont Terrace apartment complex in one of Tulsa’s highest poverty neighborhoods.

By 2002 Samaritan expanded to include the central Oregon Coast.

2003: Samaritan Pavilion was opened at Good Samaritan Hospital, featuring an emergency department, intensive care unit, and two additional surgical suites.

2009: Good Samaritan Hospital and Dayton Heart and Vascular Hospital joined to form Dayton Heart & Vascular Hospital at Good Samaritan, collaborating to continue a long-standing tradition of heart care excellence and innovation.

2010: Robotic gynecologic surgery was added, eventually expanding to include urology, thoracic, and general surgeries.

In a truly unique partnership between Samaritan and Western University of Health Sciences, the first class of 100 osteopathic medical students began studies in 2011 on a 54-acre health sciences campus in Lebanon.