Bess Kaiser Hospital

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| Name = Bess Kaiser Hospital

| Org/Group = Kaiser Permanente

| Image = Adidas North America headquarters - Portland, Oregon.JPG

| Caption = Former Bess Kaiser, now Adidas

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| Location = Portland

| Region = Multnomah County

| State = Oregon

| Country = US

| coordinates = {{coord|45.5595|-122.6950|type:landmark_region:US-OR_source:googlemaps|display=title,inline}}

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| Type = General

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| Founded = 1959

| Closed = 1998

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Bess Kaiser Hospital was a hospital in Portland, Oregon, United States, which closed in 1998.{{cite web

| url = http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/1999/08/02/story4.html

| title = Bess Kaiser's demise proves boon for some, but not for all

| date = July 30, 1999

| author = Kristina Brenneman

| work = Portland Business Journal

| accessdate = 2009-10-17

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The hospital opened in 1959 and was the first postwar Portland-area hospital in Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Foundation health care network.Henry J. Kaiser#cite note-15{{Circular reference|date=October 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3nAVAAAAIBAJ&pg=1599,78871&dq=bess+kaiser+hospital&hl=en|title=Jesse Jackson plans a visit to protest closure of center|date=September 1, 1995|work=Register-Guard|pages=3B|accessdate=2009-11-04}} It was named after Henry J. Kaiser's wife Bess.{{cite book|last=MacColl|first=E. Kimbark|title=The Growth of a City: Power and Politics in Portland, Oregon, 1915-1950|publisher=Georgian Press|year=1979|pages=583–584|isbn=0-9603408-1-5}} The former location is now occupied by adidas America Headquarters.

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