As an employee of OHSU, the rumor has always been, "tear down the dental school and re-build the emergency room there." This would actually make a lot of sense because patients would enter on the 1st floor, rather now they enter on the 9th floor and constantly get confused. Our emergency department is always overcrowded and incredibly inefficient, the hallways are full of crap! I once had to take a lady into the heli-pad elevador to do an EKG because that was the only privacy we could find... We could really use an entire new layout! A place to put things! They're redoing the floors and painting right now, so any big changes are at least five years off.
