The Pacific University Health Professions Campus is a satellite campus of Pacific University located in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Opened in 2006, the campus contains the school's College of Health Professions with plans to move Pacific's College of Optometry and School of Professional Psychology in later phases. Housed in two brick buildings, the campus is located in the city's Health and Education District and adjacent to the Tuality Hospital/Southeast 8th Avenue light rail station. The campus of Tuality Community Hospital is across Baseline Street to the south.HistoryIn March 2005, Pacific University’s board of trustees decided to build a new 225000sqft campus in Hillsboro to house the college’s healthcare related programs. In May 2005, the university purchased a half-acre of land from Tuality Healthcare next to Tuality Hospital for the campus. Plans called for an initial 100000sqft building to cost $30 million followed by a 125000sqft building, both constructed over a three- to five-year period. The Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center in Hillsboro was also to move into the building.The decision to move these programs from the main Forest Grove campus was made to move the programs closer to hospitals the programs had relationships with such as Oregon Health & Sciences University and Tuality Hospital. The move also allowed the university to have students closer to patients and to allow for the College of Liberal Arts to expand and its main campus. Pacific balanced a need to expand closer to health care partners and its longstanding relationship with Forest Grove. Pacific partnered with the federal government, the city of Hillsboro, health care providers, Washington County, and private developers.
