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 launch Phase II. This second chapter is raising 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 in five key service lines: the Heart and Vascular Institute, the Cancer Center, a pioneering Genomic Medicine Institute, the first Women’s Hospital in Northern California, and a brand new Neuroscience Institute.
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
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 and Dr. William Reeves
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.
We have supported El Camino Hospital and worked on its behalf from the very beginning, nearly half a century ago. Please join us as we continue to imagine all we can do together.
Norma Melchor
Campaign Chair
William A. Reeves, M.D.
Campaign Co-chair
Building a Center of Excellence in Cardiac and Vascular Care
El Camino Hospital is making a significant leap forward by bringing together in a truly collaborative, cross-disciplinary way all the key components of cardiac and vascular care, including advanced diagnostic techniques, surgery, interventional cardiology, medical treatment and risk-reduction services. At the Heart and Vascular Institute, physicians who once worked only in their narrow field of expertise are able to collaborate in order to provide innovative, comprehensive care for the patient. The Institute is also a center for research and training that once took place only at large university medical centers. Post doctoral fellows train under the watchful eye of physicians who are renowned for pioneering advances in the field.
Building a Center of Excellence in Cancer Care
Responding to the steadily increasing incidence of cancer, particularly among people older than age 70, El Camino Hospital's state-of-the-art Cancer Center provides patients with unsurpassed, comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services in a comfortable, patient-oriented community hospital setting. Its multidisciplinary team of cancer specialists helps patients navigate their best options for treatment and a dedicated concierge offers assistance throughout the healing process. And because healing comes in many forms, the interior design provides a comforting, stress-reducing environment for patients and families.
Building a Center of Excellence for Women’s Health Services
El Camino Hospital recognizes that women have unique health care needs. With the establishment of the first Women’s Hospital in Northern California, it offers not only award-winning maternal-child health services, but also a special point of entry to ease access to other programs designed especially for them. Linked both physically and virtually to El Camino Hospital’s current women’s health services, the mission of the new Women’s Hospital is to provide comprehensive care to women throughout their lives. In addition to the Maternal Child Health Center, which offers highly acclaimed prenatal, maternity and neonatal services, it offers many other clinical services that are gender specific: heart, vascular, cancer, gastrointestinal, neurologic, pulmonary, reproductive, gynecologic and urologic medicine. The Women’s Hospital also eases women’s access to programs designed for their special needs such as preventive screenings for breast care and osteoporosis, cosmetic and aesthetic surgery, weight management, health education, support groups, and mental health programs.
Building a Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine
Recent discoveries in the field of genetics together with advances in computer technology are making possible revolutionary new ways of approaching health care in the 21st century. With the establishment of its pioneering Genomic Medicine Institute, El Camino Hospital stands poised to develop the nation’s first center of excellence that is focused on ushering these breakthroughs from the research laboratory to patients, spurring them to become the new standard of care.
Genomic medicine can help doctors better understand their patient’s individual risk for disease which can lead to earlier intervention and prevention; help them better manage the patient’s disease; and enable them to prescribe the treatments that work best. In other words, it empowers doctors to treat patients as individuals rather than as a class of people who share particular symptoms. El Camino Hospital’s Genomic Medicine Institute offers patients ready access to state-of-the-art genetic testing, genetic counseling and genomic therapy. With the early establishment of this institute, El Camino Hospital has positioned itself to be a leader in the field, while also helping to propel its advance and ultimate adoption into the mainstream of medical care.
Building a Center of Excellence in Neuroscience
With the establishment of a comprehensive Neuroscience Institute, El Camino Hospital is bringing cutting-edge innovations to our community that are usually found only in academic medical centers. It already houses an accredited and JCAHO certified Primary Stroke Center that has earned the Joint Commission’s gold seal of approval. Using the latest technologies, the institute will provide minimally invasive, integrated treatments for an array of brain and spinal cord conditions including not only stroke, but also tumors and spine disorders. The comprehensive spine program will offer a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses surgery as well as many other treatment options such as physiatry, physical and occupational therapy, pain management and complementary therapies, all conveniently accessible to patients. In the future, the institute plans to conduct research projects and clinical trials for brain tumors, Parkinson’s disease, pain disorders, multiple sclerosis and depression. At El Camino Hospital’s Neuroscience Institute, patients will have access to state-of-the-art care in the comfort of their very own community.