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OHSU is Oregon Health & Science University, an academic health center based in Portland, Oregon. It combines patient care, scientific research, and education for health professionals in one institution. The name on its site, "OHSU | Healing Begins with Discovery," reflects that three-part mission: treating complex health needs, making discoveries that save lives, and training the next generation of health professionals.
What OHSU does
OHSU describes itself through three connected missions:
- Health care — It treats what it calls the most complex health needs in the region.
- Research — It conducts studies aimed at saving lives, with research news and resources for researchers featured on its site.
- Education — It educates next-generation health professionals and offers students the chance to study, train, and experience campus life.
This combination is what makes OHSU an academic health center: a place where care, discovery, and teaching feed into each other rather than operating separately.
Who the site is organized for
The main navigation on ohsu.edu maps directly to the audiences OHSU serves:
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Patients | Get care now, get a vaccine, conditions and treatments, find a doctor, MyChart, pay my bill |
| Students | Study and train at OHSU, campus life, what makes OHSU different |
| Research | Research overview, research in the news, resources for researchers |
| OHSU News | Current stories about research, treatments, and milestones |
| Work at OHSU | Career openings tied to the heal, teach, and discover missions |
Examples of OHSU's work
Recent items highlighted on the site show the range of its activity:
- A study to test telehealth support for autism, aimed at helping families with young children without long waits or expensive visits.
- An Oregon patient reported as the first to receive a new drug for nonobstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, described by an OHSU cardiologist.
- $11 million in funding for research on dental health, targeting the microbes that cause tooth decay and exploring helpful bacteria to prevent it.
- Doernbecher, OHSU's children's hospital, marking 100 years of transforming children's health.
If you want to use OHSU's services
- For care: Start under Patients to find a doctor, review conditions and treatments, or get care now.
- For billing questions: OHSU provides a "Pay my bill" link and a Price Transparency section under billing and insurance.
- For study or training: The Students section covers programs and campus life.
- For research collaboration or funding: See the Research section and its resources for researchers.
- For jobs: The Work at OHSU section links to current openings.
One practical note: OHSU's patient tools, such as MyChart and billing, sit behind their own pages, so plan to follow those links rather than expecting everything to be handled from the homepage.