Legacy Emanuel Medical Center is a hospital located in the Eliot neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, United States.

The first location of the hospital was a three-story Victorian home on Southwest Taylor Street, nicknamed the "Gingerbread House" by local residents for its appearance.

[3] Nurses lived on the third floor of the home, and because it contained no elevator system, patients were required to be carried upstairs.

[3] In 1913, a nursing school was founded at the hospital under the supervision of Lutheran nun Sister Betty Hanson,[3] who also served as the supervisor of the Columbia Medical Conference.

[9] In December 1915, the hospital moved to a new building it constructed for $20,000 at Stanton and Commercial Streets in Albina, its current location.

[3] In 1929, Unthank was the third African-American doctor to practice medicine in Portland, and would later serve on the hospital's board of directors beginning in 1971.

[3] In 1960, the hospital begin to seek expansion options to mitigate overcrowding, and hired a consultant from Minnesota to survey the land.

[16] In 1962, the Portland Development Commission began a study for urban renewal with Emanuel, but without informing the residents until 1970, when PDC received a federal grant to condemn and clear 55 acres of supposedly blighted property.

Fifty years after the demolition began, many of those blocks are still unused, a "visible reminder of urban neglect, broken promises and a decades-long failure of leadership" by PDC and Emanuel, and despite wiping away a key Black commercial center.

[21] In 1972, the hospital was expanded, and in the process 300 homes and businesses in the predominantly African-American Albina neighborhood were razed to make room for construction.

[14][22] In 1978, the hospital opened a helipad, and instituted the Life Flight Network, the first life-flight system on the U.S. West Coast.

[25] Legacy Emanuel's campus includes center for burn treatment, urology, trauma, and neonatal care.

The $242 million expansion started in 2010 and ranks as Portland's costliest development on the inner east side since reconstruction of the Lloyd Center shopping mall nearly 20 years before.