Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital is an accredited critical access hospital located in a peaceful setting on Devils Lake in coastal Lincoln City.
Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital is an accredited critical access hospital located in the popular beach town of Lincoln City, Oregon. Medical services include emergency, primary and specialty care for the community and its coastal visitors. The new state-of-the-art replacement hospital was completed in 2020. The hospital is one of Samaritan Health Services' five non-profit hospitals with the mission of building healthier communities together.
11/10/2025
Glitchy technology often has us cursing our computers – and heaping praise on the tech who makes everything good again! One particular shoutout for Joel Skinner, desktop solutions tech based at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, earned him the recognition of SNLH October Rising Star. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
The nomination for Skinner highlighted not only his technical expertise but also praised his strong interpersonal skills and ethics. Congrats, Joel, on a job well done! You are so appreciated. 🖥️ 🏥 ❤️
Samaritan's Rising Star program recognizes exceptional employees for their caring and compassionate work that exemplifies Samaritan PRIDE: passion, respect, integrity, dedication and excellence. 🏆
11/08/2025
When a local credit union believes every child deserves a bright start, amazing things happen.
Our friends at TLC, a Division of Fibre Federal Credit Union, are helping children learn, grow and play through their Communities First program, supporting both the North Lincoln Hospital Foundation and the Pacific Communities Health District Foundation.
🎠 At North Lincoln, their support is helping expand the Samaritan Early Learning Center, starting with the playground, so kids have a fresh, fun place to play and explore.
📚 At Pacific Communities, TLC’s gift helps give books to kids under 5 during clinical well-child visits through Reach Out and Read. It’s a simple way to help families connect and build a love for reading.
From story time to play time, TLC is partnering with Samaritan Foundations to help Lincoln County kids grow up happy and healthy. 💛
11/07/2025
Congratulations to Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital's most recent clinic-based Rising Star employee of the month, Linnea March! ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
A medical office receptionist for Lincoln City clinics, she was selected for her willingness to help, teach and support staff and patients when she filled in at a clinic that was not her home clinic.
Samaritan's Rising Star program recognizes exceptional employees for their caring and compassionate work that exemplifies Samaritan PRIDE: passion, respect, integrity, dedication and excellence. 👏 🏆 👏
10/25/2025
We are so thankful to have these services on the coast! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!
10/22/2025
📣 We’re excited to share big news: Samaritan Health Services is affiliating with MultiCare Health System, a highly respected, mission-driven organization based in Washington, serving the Pacific Northwest. Samaritan will remain locally governed while gaining new resources to expand access, modernize facilities and strengthen health care across our region. This marks MultiCare’s first health system affiliation in Oregon.
A patient access specialist at Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital answered a call for help from a colleague at the nearby Newport hospital – a patient needed a diagnostic test very soon but there were no openings available at either hospital. ☎️ 🏥
Viewing the obstacles as challenges, Trena Sylvia was able to find a solution so the patient could get the needed test and proceed with a surgery as scheduled. For this reason, Sylvia was selected as Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital’s Rising Star for September. ⭐⭐⭐
Bravo to you, Trena, for exemplifying Samaritan PRIDE: passion, respect, integrity, dedication and excellence. 🏆 ❤️
10/15/2025
Through his years with Samaritan, Clinic Operations Manager Ben Jansen has presided over several employee of the month presentations. ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Earlier this month, Ben was tricked and surprised when he learned that the Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital clinic-based Rising Star of the month was … him! 😄
A small crowd of selection committee members and hospital executives gathered in a back hallway at Samaritan Lincoln City Medical Center while Jansen went to fetch the employee he believed was being honored. When his own name was announced as the award recipient, Ben was obviously surprised and pleased – although he would have trimmed his beard better if he had known he was the one being honored, he joked.
Samaritan's Rising Star program recognizes exceptional employees for their caring and compassionate work that exemplifies Samaritan PRIDE: passion, respect, integrity, dedication and excellence. Congrats to you, Ben, on a job well done! 👏 🏆 👏
10/13/2025
If you are an Oregon Health Plan member living in Lincoln County, we invite you to stop by to visit with staff from the InterCommunity Health Network Coordinated Care Organization (IHN-CCO) and learn more about how they are making health care a community affair!
The Community Resource Fair is hosted by Oregon Coast Community College from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at the central campus, 400 SE College Way, Newport. See you there!
10/10/2025
The next time you visit our hospital, give a round of applause to the Environmental Services team. 👏 A small but mighty group of a dozen housekeepers played a vital role in helping Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital earn a perfect five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for hospital cleanliness. 🎉 We’re one of only three hospitals in Oregon to achieve this top rating!
Our housekeepers ensure that every space — from inpatient rooms and surgical suites to common areas and offices — is thoroughly and quickly cleaned. 🧹 Their efforts not only support patient safety and healing but also help create a welcoming first impression for everyone who walks through our doors. 🏥
10/04/2025
❤️A Newport couple left behind an impactful legacy by setting up a scholarship fund through the Pacific Communities Health District Foundation. The amount awarded over the years now totals more than $99,500. That's a nice financial boost for Lincoln County nursing students! ❤️
Congrats to this year's Gribler Loving Trust Nursing Scholarship recipients: Heather, Leslie, Kailee and Darby. Three of them already work at the two Samaritan hospitals at the coast and all of them are looking forward to continuing their careers with us - as registered nurses. 😍
Our hospital's Rising Star program recognizes exceptional employees for their caring and compassionate work that exemplifies Samaritan PRIDE: passion, respect, integrity, dedication and excellence. 🏆 They are nominated by patients and co-workers, then an employee committee selects the top recipients at the hospital and our clinics each month.
Congrats to Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital's most recent Rising Stars!
👉 Family Medicine Physician Cate Whitlach, MD, has worked at Samaritan Lincoln City Medical Center since February 2023. This is the second time in little over a year that she has been selected, based on nominations from very happy patients.
👉 As lead house supervisor at the hospital, Scott Christianson, RN, troubleshoots, collaborates and communicates with a smiling and reassuring take-charge manner. He's a professional and trusted team player.
08/29/2025
Looking for a quality preschool program for your child? Samaritan Early Learning Center in Lincoln City is now accepting applications for children ages 3 to 5. Learn about the center at the link below or give them a call at 541-994-4208.
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How did Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital come to be? The way many great things do – through inspiration, determination and dedication!
In 1963, a small group of residents with a vision for medical care in our community studied the feasibility of building a hospital. It would serve residents and visitors in the area that would later become known as Lincoln City.
By a vote of the people in 1965, that committee became a formal group, the North Lincoln Health District Board of Directors. Their first task was to oversee the construction and operations of a hospital. Inspired by the board’s vision, citizens approved a tax levy which, along with a federal grant and the sale of general obligation bonds, provided funding to build a hospital. Six patients were admitted to the new hospital on the very first day it opened– Oct. 28, 1968.
With the rapid growth of the hospital and advances in health care, the North Lincoln Health District voted to sign a 30-year management agreement with Samaritan Health Services in 2000. Samaritan’s mission, “Building Healthier Communities Together,” acknowledges that Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital belongs to all residents of north Lincoln County.
Further contributing to our community’s wellbeing, the health district partnered with the City of Lincoln City, North Lincoln Hospital Foundation and Samaritan Health Services in 2011 to build a permanent home for the Samaritan Early Learning Center, a five-star rated childcare center for infants, toddlers and children.
In the fall of 2015, Samaritan Health Services and the health district announced plans to construct a new hospital and medical campus on the current site, replacing the nearly 50-year old building. The replacement hospital will be completed in the autumn of 2019 and the campus renovations finished by spring 2020. Visit samhealth.org/NewHospitalLincolnCity for details.
Want to learn more about the hospital and the health district? The North Lincoln Health District holds public meetings on the third Thursday of each month at 9:30 a.m. in the hospital’s Education Conference Room, 3034 NE 28th St., Lincoln City. Call for information: 541-994-3661
