About Us

El Camino Hospital Foundation raises money and makes grants to fund programs, services, and equipment across the El Camino Hospital enterprise, on its campuses in Mountain View and Los Gatos, that are not typically covered by the hospital’s normal fees. This "over and above" support varies widely and includes new equipment, continuing education for staff, community outreach health services, and a variety of special, often innovative health care programs and services. It provides the extra margin of difference that distinguishes good hospitals from great ones. Among other programs and services, gifts to the Foundation:

• Underwrite the Cancer Center's patient navigation program
   
• Underwrite an advanced fellowship training program for promising cardiologists at the Norma Melchor Heart & Vascular Institute
   
• Fund El Camino Hospital’s palliative care program
   
• Provide free gynecological services to underprivileged patients at the RotaCare Clinic
   
• Helped to purchase the hospital’s first da Vinci surgical robot
   
• Launched and continue to support the Genomic Medicine Institute
   
• Established and continue to support the South Asian Heart Center
   
• Further research and development by underwriting clinical trials at the Taft Center for Clinical Excellence, Fogarty Institute for Innovation
   
• Bring healing arts to patients at the Mountain View and Los Gatos campuses
   
• Support the ASPIRE program on the Mountain View and Los Gatos campuses
   
• Fund El Camino Hospital’s Nursing Research Council’s research, innovation, and implementation of evidence-based practices