Legacy's Healing Gardens

"The Legacy Gardens are amazing. They set an international benchmark." -- Roger S. Ulrich, PhD, Texas A&M Center for Health Systems and Design

These tranquil settings are therapeutic retreats for patients, their families and visitors, hospital staff, and the general public. Legacy currently has 10 healing gardens, plus one under construction and one in the planning stages:

  1. Stenzel Healing Garden @ Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center
  2. Green Gables Guest House Garden @ Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center
  3. Kern ICU Garden @ Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital & Medical Center
  4. Oregon Burn Center - the country's first healing garden designed for burn survivors @ Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
  5. Behavioral Health Garden for adolescent and adult psychiatric patients @ Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
  6. Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center Healing Garden, dedicated on November 19. 2009.
  7. Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital Healing Garden (in the planning stage)
  8. Legacy Meridian Park Hospital Lewis & Floetta Ide Healing Garden (in the fundraising stage)
  9. Legacy Emanuel Children's Garden @ The Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel
  10. Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Garden @ The Children's Hospital at Legacy Emanuel
  • Volunteers are needed for a variety of projects and tasks, from garden maintenance to public relations. Please call 503-413-7012 for more information.

    Everyone is invited to participate in these events:
    Garden Calendar 2010


    Legacy Emanuel Children's Garden
    The Children's Garden at Legacy Emanual Children's Hospital is very easy to visit. There is plenty of parking near the hospital. If you use the parking coordinates suggested here (N 45.544 W 122.669), then the most obvious entrance will be near at the "turn around." You might see several taxis picking up and dropping off patients and visitors. If you enter through these doors, turn right at the reception desk and follow the beautiful and highly polished brown granite tiled floors until you find the garden. You will be able to see it through the windows. The garden is in an atrium, so if it's raining, you will get wet. It's a very small but lovely place with lots to see and photograph; plenty of benches to sit and enjoy the garden; and lots of visitors passing through.

  • Bench Dedicated to Max - Portland, Oregon
    Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member howarthe
    N 45° 32.634 W 122° 40.212
    10T E 525746 N 5043426
    This tranquil setting is a therapeutic retreat for patients, their families and visitors, hospital staff, and the general public.
    Waymark Code: WM8PFQ
    Location: Oregon, United States
    Date Posted: 04/27/2010
    Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member riston2
    Views: 7

    "He was only with us a short time
    but his spirit will be with us forever."

    Max Wolfgang Cakarnis
    May 29, 1997-October 28, 1997
    Where is this bench located?: Legacy Emmanuel Children's Garden

    Who is this bench honoring?: Max Wolfgang Cakarnis

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