In 1973, Oregon University Hospital was created through the merger of Multnomah County Hospital, Medical School Hospital and the outpatient clinics. Since those first building blocks were laid, the university has dramatically expanded both in form and function, but its core values and mission remain the same.

A year later, the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center was formed as an independent institution under the direction of the Oregon State System of Higher Education. The schools, hospitals and all of the university’s programs are brought together under one umbrella to create this new center, which becomes Oregon’s only academic health center and one of 125 in the nation.

In 1981, The institution was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University.