Imagine All We Can Do Together:
The Campaign for El Camino Hospital

Philanthropy and community support provide the extra margin of difference that distinguishes the ordinary hospital from the great one. El Camino Hospital has been the fortunate recipient of extraordinary generosity from our community that has helped us build leading-edge health care programs to house in a brand new, seismically retrofitted, state-of-the-art campus in Mountain View. Your generosity to Phase I of the Imagine Campaign, concluded in September 2008, has given us the confidence to plan Phase II. This second chapter will raise money for both the bricks and mortar of our hospital campuses in Mountain View and Los Gatos and superlative health services for our patients. In particular the campaign is focusing on opportunities for honor and memorial gifts around the Mountain View campus and the development of centers of excellence thoughout the hospital.

As part of Phase II of the Imagine Campaign, and in honor of the opening of the new patient tower in the fall of 2009, the Foundation has created a new opportunity for donors to participate in the development of the Mountain View hospital campus by becoming Pillars of the Community. The names of all who contribute will be inscribed on beautiful columns in the main courtyard.

To learn more about the Imagine Campaign or about becoming a Pillar of the Community, please contact:

Lindsay Greensweig Ehrman
Executive Director
El Camino Hospital Foundation
2500 Grant Road
Mountain View, CA  94040-4378

Phone: 650-940-7154
Fax: 650-940-7144
Email: foundation@elcaminohospital.org

Building for the Future

Norma Melchor

We gratefully acknowledge all the donors whose contributions enabled us to conclude the first phase of the Imagine Campaign one year ahead of schedule. Your donations have helped us underwrite a wide spectrum of innovative programs and services for our new campus, transforming El Camino Hospital from a small, community medical institution into a provider of world-class health care. Through all these changes, however, the hospital has never strayed from its core mission: to provide compassionate, patient-centered care to all who seek our aid.

While we have accomplished much in the past four years, we still have much to do. In addition to continuing to support our existing programs, we know we must develop new ones to remain a provider of leading-edge patient care. Thanks to our physicians, nurses, volunteers and donors, El Camino is a great hospital. Our ability to provide superior patient care in the future will depend largely on our ability to attract and retain the best people, provide them with the latest technology and training, and maintain our focus on the patients we serve. And all those are in turn dependent on continued philanthropic support from the community.

I have supported El Camino Hospital and worked on its behalf from the very beginning, nearly half a century ago. Please join me as we continue to imagine all we can do together.

Norma Melchor
Campaign Chair