Tuality Healthcare

October 1, 2012 -- The Tuality Healthcare Board of Directors and Providence Health & Services have agreed on a letter of understanding to conduct discussions about an affiliation to provide better preventive and ongoing health care for the communities we serve. These discussions may include working together to achieve clinical care integration, expanding primary care, developing a package of maternity care services, using telemedicine to deliver care remotely, and improving community health access.

July 11, 2012 -- Pacemakers and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans traditionally go together like oil and water. Not anymore. Tuality Healthcare is the first hospital in the Portland metropolitan area with a diagnostic imaging staff certified to perform MRI scans for patients who have the new Medtronic Revo MRI® SureScan® pacing system. Patients with traditional pacemakers cannot undergo MRI scans because of potential heart tissue damage or interference with the pacing circuitry. Magnetic fields from an MRI scan can interact with the circuitry causing pacemaker failure or malfunction.