The El Camino Hospital District Board of Directors is composed of five publicly elected or appointed representatives.

As a group, these representatives oversee the assets of the El Camino Hospital District, including El Camino Hospital, Pathways Home Health, Hospice & Private Duty.

The five District Board members also comprise the governing board of El Camino Hospital, which manages El Camino Hospital operations.

As of  February 28,2010, the members of the El Camino Hospital District Board of Directors are:

Wesley F. Alles

• Current Position on Board: Chairperson
• First appointed to District Board August 2003
• Elected for first full term November 2004
• Re-elected for second term November 2008
• Term Expires November 2012
• Resident of Mountain View
• Senior Research Scientist, Stanford University School of Medicine

Uwe R. Kladde

• Current Position on Board: Secretary/Treasurer
• First elected to District Board November 2008
• Term expires November 2012
• Resident of Los Altos Hills
• Retired Healthcare Director

David Reeder

• First appointed to District Board March 1999
• Elected for first full term November 2002
• Elected for second term November 2006
• Term expires November 2010
• Resident of Los Altos
• Business Operations Manager, Communications Hardware, Oracle

John L. Zoglin

• Current position on Board: Vice-Chairperson
• First appointed to District Board March 2007
• Elected for first full term November 2008
• Term expires November 2012
• Resident of Los Altos
• Vice President, eCommerce, Corel Corporation

History of the El Camino Hospital District

In the mid-1950s, when orchards and fields in the Los Altos and Mountain View area were quickly turning into suburbs and commercial enclaves, a group of physicians and concerned citizens banded together to establish a much needed community hospital. The few existing local hospitals were at capacity; hospitals to the north and south were badly overcrowded. The best and fairest way, they decided, was to form a hospital district and levy a tax so the cost would be shared over the population of the entire area. Voters approved the formation of the district in 1956 by a 12 to 1 margin. The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors appointed a five-member board. Its first decision was the selection of a 20-acre orchard on Grant Road in Mountain View as the site for the new hospital. The name "El Camino Hospital" was also chosen.