Health Compass Newsletter

Over the past year, we've completed many prerequisites to officially start work on the new hospital structure.

We've worked with the City of Astoria, Pacific Power, Spectrum and other companies to remove electric and cable lines, as well as power poles, from Exchange Street. They are burying new lines underground to offer an improved view from our campus.

We added a new, temporary helipad on the east side of our campus, and we closed the Health & Wellness Park and labyrinth. We also rerouted water and sewer pipes, preparing and upgrading the infrastructure beneath the construction site to support the future hospital for many years.

This month, the construction on our campus will get even more exciting! You'll see more fencing going up, and the construction of the foundation of the new hospital will begin. Patients will be routed to a new parking area and will enter through a new "main entrance" while we build our new facility.

We can't wait to see the building start to take shape. As we wait, we encourage you to explore off-campus services if you want to avoid the construction work. Some of those services include online bill pay or bill pay over the phone; walk-in labs and imaging at our Seaside and Warrenton Clinics; and specialty services like Cardiology, Foot and Ankle, and Pediatrics in Seaside.

Be sure to take a look at pages 4 and 5 of the Health Compass for more information on our off-campus services and a map of campus showing the main entrance we'll use during the two-year construction period.

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