Overview Providence Center for Health Care Ethics is housed on the campus of Providence St. Vincent Medical Center and includes a kitchen and separate dining and living areas, private living quarters, 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. The conference room on the lower level includes state-of-the-art Polycom Fx multipoint videoconferencing equipment. The Fx software allows the Center to connect to any four diverse sites for videoconferences. A document camera for transparencies or hard-copy overhead projection, and power-point capabilities are also available.
Ethics Center Use Guidelines
If you wish to reserve the Ethics Center, please take a moment to review the following guidelines:
Call ext. 61910 to inquire about the availability of the Ethics Center.
Multi-site video-conferencing is available, as well as a document camera for transparencies or hard-copy overhead projection, and power point capabilities. Please let us know if you would like to use any of this equipment and if you need assistance.
When making a reservation please specify whether you wish to use just the Conference Room or you also wish to use the living room, dining room, and kitchen.
Please clean up after any snacks or meals and take out all leftover food. Housekeeping does not clean after meetings, so all trash that includes food and drink items must be taken with you when you leave. Also, please put room back in the same arrangement in which you found it.
Please do not use or leave any items in the refrigerator.
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 and soon will have online connections to other ethics collections. 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 St. Vincent's 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.
