Kaiser Westside Medical Center

Kaiser Westside Medical Center is a hospital in the Tanasbourne neighborhood in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in August 2013 with 126 hospital beds, the Kaiser Permanente facility is planned to later expand to 174 beds. It was designed by Ellerbe Becket Architects and Petersen Kolberg & Associates Architects/Planners. The $220 million hospital includes Kaiser’s Sunset Medical Office that opened in 1987 on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area.HistoryKaiser-Permanente broke ground on their Sunset Medical Office on in what was then unincorporated Washington County in August 1986. The facility, a 41000ft2 two-story brick building designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, was built at a cost of $5.2 million and opened in 1987. The organization originally planned to build a hospital on the site in addition to their medical offices. It dropped those plans in the mid-1990s and sold 35 acres (14 ha) of the site to Trammell Crow Company in 1997 for construction of apartments.In June 2005, Kaiser announced plans to build a 138-bed hospital at the site that had since been annexed by Hillsboro after deciding not to build a hospital in Vancouver, Washington. Kaiser had planned to purchase from sportswear maker Nike near Beaverton for construction of a hospital, but Nike backed out after Beaverton planned to annex Nike's headquarters. Hillsboro earlier rejected proposals by Providence Health & Services to build a new hospital in the Orenco section of the city, with Hillsboro-based Tuality Healthcare opposed to the Providence plan due to the proximity to its Tuality Hospital (the only hospital in the city), in downtown Hillsboro. However, Tuality was not opposed to Kaiser's hospital proposal, as it did not view the health maintenance organization's hospital as a direct competitor.