El Camino Hospital

El Camino Health is a non-profit hospital with 420 beds (Mountain View Main Campus)[1] based on a 41-acre (17 ha) campus in Mountain View, California. There is a second, smaller hospital campus, El Camino Hospital, Los Gatos, in Los Gatos, with additional satellite clinics in the West Valley/Lower Peninsula area of Silicon Valley. Since September 2017, the CEO has been Dan Woods.[2] The Chief Operating Officer has been James D. Griffith since 2018.[3]

El Camino Health
El Camino Healthcare District
Geography
LocationMountain View, Los Gatos, California, US
Organisation
FundingPublic hospital
TypeDistrict
History
Opened1961
Links
Websitehttps://www.elcaminohealth.org/

El Camino Health serves residents in the El Camino Healthcare District, a special tax district[2] that includes Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and portions of Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Cupertino,[4] as well as people in surrounding communities. The hospital opened in 1961 following a successful ballot initiative in 1956 to establish the tax district and fund the construction of the hospital with $7.3 million in bonds.[5] In 2009 it bought the former Community Hospital of Los Gatos and renamed it El Camino Hospital Los Gatos.[6] Land was acquired in 2016 for a campus in San Jose.[4]

El Camino Health has several times been designated a nursing magnet hospital by the American Nursing Credentialing Center.[7] Specialties include acute rehabilitation, cardiac care, dialysis, cancer care, maternal child health services, orthopedics, neurosurgery and behavioral health.

U.S. News ranked the hospital #25 (out of 428 hospitals) for Best Hospitals in California.[8]

References
  1. "El Camino Hospital". Health Care: Best Hospitals. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  2. Forestieri, Kevin (November 3, 2017). "Hospital's new CEO says patient care is top priority". Mountain View Voice. pp. 1, 8. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  3. "El Camino Hospital hires new chief operating officer". Los Altos Town Crier. 24 October 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  4. Forestieri, Kevin (July 27, 2017). "El Camino plans to open new clinic in San Jose". Mountain View Voice. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  5. Kleut, Jennifer van der (September 23, 2011). "El Camino Hospital Turns 50". patch.com. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  6. Weiss, Casey (April 16, 2009). "It's official: El Camino adds Los Gatos site". Mountain View Voice. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  7. Forestieri, Kevin (October 7, 2016). "El Camino Health nurses reject new contract". Mountain View Voice. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  8. "Best Hospitals in California". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved August 24, 2021.

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