Conceived, developed, and funded by its local constituency, El Camino Hospital has relied on community support from the very beginning. And for nearly 30 years, El Camino Hospital Foundation has turned to you, our friends and neighbors, for the additional philanthropic sustenance that enables the hospital to provide an extraordinary level of care, beyond what fees and reimbursements alone would allow us to afford. Time and again you have responded with loyalty and generosity.

That need is even greater today. In fact, there is widespread agreement that, in the future, the best health care will be available only to communities that provide significant charitable support for their local hospitals. So today, we are once again offering you an opportunity to make an investment with healthy returns.

The goal of the new campaign is to underwrite the further development of centers of excellence and programs of distinction across the enterprise on El Camino Hospital’s campuses in Mountain View and Los Gatos:

Behavioral Health Services

• Support ASPIRE, an intensive outpatient therapy program designed to prevent teen suicide and help teens in acute distress develop resilience and coping skills
   
• Support OATS, an outpatient therapy program for seniors suffering from depression and anxiety who are not responding to traditional treatments
   
• Support MOMS, the only intensive outpatient program on the West Coast specifically designed to help the 25% of new mothers who experience postpartum anxiety, depression, or psychosis
   
• Enable El Camino Hospital’s Behavioral Health Services to continue developing pioneering programs that respond to observed, unmet mental health needs in the community

Cancer Center

• Ensure that our community has access to the state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment advances available at academic medical institutions, including participation in clinical trials, but in the compassionate environment of the community hospital by donating to the Cancer Center

Chinese Health Initiative

• Ensure that the specific health needs of the growing local Chinese population are addressed in a way that accommodates their cultural preferences in education, screening and the delivery of health care by donating to the Chinese Health Initiative

Community Outreach Programs

• Provide medical care to the uninsured and underserved, those in our community who have the greatest need and least access, by giving to the RotaCare Free Clinic
   
• Bring the healing properties of music and art to patients by donating to the Healing Arts Program
   
• Provide comprehensive care to the growing and increasingly underserved population of elderly in Mountain View and surrounding areas by contributing to the Senior Health Center

El Camino Hospital Los Gatos

• Support the marquee programs that distinguish the hospital, including urology, orthopedics, and rehabilitation
   
• Underwrite the development of new programs at El Camino Hospital Los Gatos that will best serve residents of Campbell, Cupertino, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, and San Jose

Fogarty Institute for Innovation

• Support the incubation of new medical technologies
   
• Underwrite clinical research
   
• Underwrite educational programs for physicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs to encourage the development of medical advances
   
• Support the work of the Fogarty Institute for Innovation, which was established by Dr. Thomas Fogarty to nurture and accelerate the development of medical advances that improve patient care

Genomic Medicine Institute

• Bring advances in the personalization of medicine through genomics from the research lab directly to physicians and patients
   
• Support the pioneering work of the nation’s first community hospital-based Genomic Medicine Institute

Norma Melchor Heart & Vascular Institute

• Support a uniquely collaborative approach to cardiovascular medicine that ensures patients receive the most effective, least invasive treatment
   
• Support innovation and research that advance the state-of-the-art in cardiovascular medicine and make the Norma Melchor Heart & Vascular Institute the only truly comprehensive, community hospital-based program of its kind in the region for cardiac, vascular, and stroke patient

South Asian Heart Center

• Fund community outreach programs that raise awareness of the epidemic of coronary artery disease among people who trace their descent from South Asia
   
• Educate physicians about the need to screen South Asians early and more aggressively to appropriately manage their high risk
   
• Fund research to identify the specific metabolic, behavioral and genetic risk factors and to assess the efficacy of lifestyle management to address them
   
• Further the lifesaving work of the South Asian Heart Center

Women’s Hospital

• Support the only Women’s Hospital in Northern California
   
• Support the development of programs that fill critical gaps in the delivery of women’s health care such as the High Risk Breast Program and the Pelvic Health Program
   
• Ensure that women receive coordinated and comprehensive health care throughout their lifetimes in an environment specially designed for them

To learn more about making an investment with healthy returns, please contact Executive Director Lindsay Greensweig Ehrman, 650-940-7154 or foundation@elcaminohospital.org.