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EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDAT ION | JUNE 2021
Healthy Giving
Orchard Pavilion Renovation: A New Vision Taking Wing Spring Celebration
for Mother, Baby, and Family Care Launches Fundraising Effort
for Orchard Pavilion
The $149 million expansion and remodel with showers, lounge and respite areas,
of the Orchard Pavilion (formerly known convenient access to a bistro, and milk
as the Women’s Hospital) broke ground refrigerators – amenities that will enable On May 27, 2021, friends and supporters
on April 1. The three-phase project is them to stay comfortable and close, and of El Camino Health and the foundation
scheduled for completion in 2024. When enhance vital early bonding, growth, and tuned in for Taking Wing, a virtual
it is finished, our Mountain View hospital development. celebration benefiting the renovation
will have the capacity to serve more and expansion of the Orchard Pavilion for
Currently, the Orchard Pavilion has 44 Maternal and Child Health. Anticipation for
patients in a private room environment
the event started building in the afternoon
that promotes healing and wellness licensed postpartum beds on the first
as guests received special deliveries
for women, infants, and families in our floor and the primarily dual occupancy
consisting of four bottles of wine and a
community. mother-baby rooms are small and
gourmet pairing box to be enjoyed during
cramped. After renovation, there will the program.
The neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), be 52 licensed beds in 52 large, private
which currently has three six-bed wards rooms divided between the first and
and two private isolation rooms, is third floors, with nurseries located
moving from the first floor to the second, nearby. The labor and delivery unit will
and it will be 91 percent larger. Designed remain on the first floor but will expand
for family-integrated care, it will have significantly with the addition of eight
19 spacious private rooms and a five- rooms. Five of them will be part of a new At 7:00 p.m. event co-chairs Romina Ahuja
bed pod. Parents will have comfortable antepartum unit for women with high- and Katherine Kennedy Allen welcomed
facilities, including dedicated bathrooms risk pregnancies who need monitoring everyone on Zoom. “We are delighted
to give you a sneak preview of the new
Continued on page 3
Orchard Pavilion and share the story of
why this investment in our families and the
next generation is so important,” Romina
told the audience. “Our family had the
opportunity to experience El Camino’s
incredible care when I was on hospitalized
bed rest in antepartum care for 46 days
before Emerson was born at 28 weeks and
spent 64 days in the amazing NICU at El
Camino Health,” added Kate. “Our story is
why I joined Romina to co-chair the Taking
Wing committee to support and help lead
the fundraising effort for a maternal child
Continued on page 3
Inside:
• Fulfilling the Promise Update
Rendering of the expanded and remodeled Orchard Pavilion for Maternal and Child Health. • Perinatal Mood Services
• Nurse Leader Scholar Program
• COVID-19 Emergency Response
• Advances in Radiation Oncology
• Hope to Health
Message from the Foundation Chair
Thank you for connecting with us meaningful
Board of Directors virtually these past months. Through opportunities
John A. Conover, Chair the Healthy Connections learning series, to support
Romina Ahuja, Secretary Norma’s Literary Luncheon, and our new them.
Robin Driscoll, Treasurer spring celebration Taking Wing, we have
Lane Melchor, Immediate Past Chair been able to keep in touch and stay We are
Nahid Aliniazee inspired despite staying spatially grateful to all
Phyllis Dorricott distanced. With your support, El Camino the donors
Stan Fischman, MD, DLFAPA Health rose to every challenge posed by and sponsors
Michele Kirsch COVID-19 while taking exemplary care who reached
Julia E. Miller, Hospital Board Liaison of our community. We can be proud our out, stepped
Pauline A. Nist hospitals garnered several impressive up, and
Mary Scrivner contributed during these difficult
honors and awards during this time:
Nipa Sheth, DDS months, particularly in response to the
Judy Van Dyck, Auxiliary Liaison • 4th consecutive American Nurses COVID-19 emergency relief effort.
Dan Woods, CEO, El Camino Health Credentialing Center Magnet® Usually we update the donor monuments
Andrew T. Cope, President designation for nursing excellence. in the Mountain View hospital annually to
El Camino Health Foundation Founders reflect your ongoing generosity. Last
• Healthgrades 2021 Outstanding
Jack & Norma Melchor* year, because of the pandemic, we
Patient Experience Award™ - in the top
Burton* & Deedee McMurtry instead published a virtual donor board
15 percent of hospitals nationwide for
Gordon & Betty Moore on the foundation website and this
patient experience.
David & Lucile Packard* spring we have done so again.
• Fortune & IBM Watson Health 100 Top
Foundation Staff
Hospitals® 2021 – only California As I write this message the vaccination
President
hospital to make this list; 100 Top effort is gaining momentum, COVID
Andrew T. Cope
andrew_cope@elcaminohealth.org Everest Award winner for being one of hospitalizations are down, and more
650-940-7154 20 healthcare providers on the list to activities are opening up. For the
achieve national benchmarks for both foundation, we hope that means an
Senior Philanthropy Officer
the fastest rate of improvement during in-person golf tournament and Chinese
Lindsay Ehrman
the past five years and highest current Health Initiative 10th anniversary Red
lindsay_ehrman@elcaminohealth.org
650-988-7849
year performance. Envelope Celebration in the fall. So, in a
spirit of optimism and renewal, I will
• ‘A’ Grade in Leapfrog Hospital Safety
Annual Giving Officer close by saying “see you soon.”
Katie Kehriotis Grade program at Mountain View
Meanwhile, have a good summer, and
katie_kehriotis@elcaminohealth.org hospital – recognition of commitment
please stay healthy and safe.
650-988-7665 to providing safe, high-quality care to
patients.
Executive Assistant
Patricia Keil • Los Gatos hospital named to
patricia_keil@elcaminohealth.org Newsweek’s 2021 list of Best
650-988-7668 Maternity Care Hospitals. John A. Conover, Chair
Manager of Special Events El Camino Health Foundation
These accolades reinforce what we have
Kirsten Krimsley Board of Directors
kirsten_krimsley@elcaminohealth.org
long known: El Camino Health is special;
650-988-4189 our hospitals are deserving of
philanthropic support; and our
Manager of Donor Relations donations make a difference. Among
Bettina Rosenberg Thank You Healthy
other areas, that extra margin of
bettina_rosenberg@elcaminohealth.org Connections Sponsors
excellence can be seen at our Cancer
650-988-7514
Center and Scrivner Center for Mental Series Sponsors
* of blessed memory Health & Addiction Services, in Magnet-
level bedside nursing care, and maternal-
child healthcare, which are all
highlighted in this issue. These will be
Event Sponsor
650-940-7154 among the foundation’s fundraising
foundation@elcaminohealth.org priorities in the new fiscal year, which
elcaminohealth.org/foundation starts July 1, and you can read about
2 EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDAT ION
Orchard Pavilion Renovation:
A New Vision for Mother, Baby, and Family Care continued from page 1
or bedrest before their due dates. There
will also be a flexibly-configured eight-
bed preparation and recovery area for
Caesarean section or other surgeries.
A café with indoor and outdoor seating
areas, small gift shop, and security
station will be located on the ground
floor. There will be new lobbies on the
first and second floors, and an airy,
light-filled mezzanine on the third floor.
In addition, the building exterior will
be refreshed and there will be many
The NICU will have 19 private rooms with a place for parents to sleep in.
infrastructure upgrades.
“This will be a big expansion in terms
of how many women we can serve,”
says Heather Freeman, Senior Director,
Maternal Child Health Service Line.
“Every room will have better capability
and comfort for our patients.” In fact,
El Camino Health is projected to become
the largest provider of childbirth services
The first floor will have labor and delivery The first and third floors will each have 26
in the area.
and antepartum rooms. private postpartum mother-baby rooms.
Taking Wing Continued from page 1
health building that matches the physicians request privileges. When Cope announced, as he encouraged
excellent care we experienced.” construction is complete, he anticipates everyone to contribute. He then
we will be the largest, busiest, and most introduced Master Sommelier Randall
CEO Dan Woods explained why advanced birthing center in the area. Bertao, general manager of the Los
the Orchard Pavilion project is so The CEO assured listeners the hospital Altos Golf & Country Club. Bertao
important. “At El Camino Health we would do everything possible to minimize educated the audience on how to
invest in our community. We invest disruption to patients and families taste wine knowledgeably and guided
in the next generation,” he said. throughout the 32-month construction guests as they sampled Fumé Blanc
About 5,000 babies are born at our project, which began on April 1. When and Merlot from ONEHOPE winery,
hospitals every year and that number it is complete the Orchard Pavilion will and Rosé of Pinot Noir and Pinot Noir
is growing as more and more local have better facilities for caregivers and from Furthermore Wines. ONEHOPE
a quiet, light-filled, calming, hotel-like CEO Jake Kloberdanz and Furthermore
environment for patients, with the latest Wines founder Chad Richard joined in
technologies, and comfortable amenities a lively and informative conversation
for partners. that provided insight into their
winemaking philosophy and the impact
“Tonight’s event is the launch of El of global climate change.
Camino Health Foundation’s three-
year fundraising effort to support You can donate to the Orchard
this great undertaking,” El Camino Pavilion renovation and expansion at
Master Sommelier Randall Bertao Health Foundation President Andrew donate.elcaminohealth.org/takingwing.
donate.elcaminohealth.org/HealthyGiving 3
Fulfilling the Promise
The exceptional work to fulfill the promise of better mental health and addiction services for
our community continues at the Scrivner Center, sustained and propelled by generous
donations to the foundation. Unlike most providers, El Camino Health implemented new safety
protocols and continued to provide in-person treatment throughout the COVID-19 pandemic
because of the commitment to quality. Demand for services has remained very high.
ASPIRE –Youth and Young Adult
Services
ASPIRE continues to expand with
support from the Mary and Doug
Scrivner Endowment for Adolescent
Mental Health Innovation and the Tad
and Dianne Taube Program for
Adolescent Behavioral Health. ASPIRE
QUEST, which launched last fall to
address habitual behaviors in youth,
including drug misuse and screen
addiction, is quickly growing to capacity.
A new, more intensive ASPIRE partial
hospitalization program (six hours per
day), is scheduled to launch in October ASPIRE clinical staff in Mountain View
and will strengthen a continuum of care
that includes the original after-school mood impact prevention by launching a program will then transition to patients.
tracks for middle school, high school, new 4th trimester class to prepare
and transition-age youth, and a prep pregnant women for the emotional and Looking to the future, Scrivner Center
program for adolescents who need physical changes they can expect after and maternal-child healthcare service
additional support before entering the birth. It will be free and open to the line leaders are exploring a collaborative
program. To further broaden ASPIRE’s community. vision for a Family Wellness Center,
impact beyond El Camino Health’s which would be a new home for MOMS,
service area, the Scrivner Center has Health and Wellness Program ASPIRE, and ASPIRE QUEST. Other
hired an ASPIRE Consortium coordinator. In July, the Scrivner Center will launch a support and lifestyle-focused health
She is strengthening existing new Health and Wellness Program to programs for women and families,
partnerships with hospitals in Oregon help people with serious chronic medical including lactation consultation,
and southern California, coordinating conditions who have lost hope gain the massage, exercise, and nutritional
research and outcome measurements motivation to reengage in their counseling, could also be offered there.
among all participants, and actively healthcare and find renewed purpose in
looking for new partners. life. The approach will be one-on-one This work
sessions by the newly hired program continues under
MOMS – Perinatal Mood Services coordinator. After completing the the direction of
El Camino Health also provides a program, patients will be referred to new Scrivner
continuum of care to women with a groups in the community that help Center Chief
perinatal mood condition. It ranges from facilitate further peer connection. The Medical Director
inpatient treatment in the specialty Health and Wellness Program was Kalpana Nathan,
women’s unit of the Taube Pavilion, seeded by a major gift to El Camino MD, who came
which is now being fully utilized, to Health Foundation for that purpose. to El Camino
partial hospitalization, to intensive Health in March. Kalpana Nathan, MD
outpatient therapy (MOMS). With a past Project Hope She has 23 years of experience
grant from Hope to Health, the Scrivner El Camino Health Chaplain Reverend supporting patients in the Veterans
Center will begin offering MOMS John Harrison is initiating a new program Administration system and is a clinical
outpatient groups via Zoom for women to help patients and staff find hope and associate professor in the Stanford
who don’t need the full intensity of the higher purpose through their struggles, University Department of Psychiatry
in-person therapeutic program and as a and encourage patients to have faith and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Nathan is
transition for MOMS graduates. The they will get better. His initial focus is board certified in addictions and
team is also addressing postpartum staff morale and wellness, and the forensic psychiatry.
4 EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDAT ION
PERINATAL MOOD SERVICES: PIONEERING CARE
FOR WOMEN AT THE SCRIVNER CENTER
“Postpartum depression is very organizations, El Camino Health maternal else on the West
common. Very few people know about it child clinical staff, and even by searching Coast. Dr. Dhami
and it is the number one complication of online. A member of the Scrivner notes such care
any pregnancy in terms of incidence,” Center’s access or MOMS team reaches helps to reduce
says Nirmaljit Dhami, MD, medical out and sets up a free in-office feelings of guilt
director of inpatient perinatal assessment with a clinician. The patient and suicidal
psychiatry. Specialized mental health is either admitted to the appropriate thought, gives
services for new mothers can be difficult Scrivner Center program or referred to a moms confidence
to find. El Camino Health has developed community resource. Treatment includes in their parenting
a full continuum of programs that are individual therapy, group therapy, ability, improves
appropriate for women with varying occupational therapy, expressive arts, bonding and Nirmaljit Dhami, MD
levels of symptoms. This includes cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment, and
intensive outpatient therapy (MOMS) mindfulness, and support for partners. may lessen the effect of maternal illness
under the direction of Dr. Nicole Tarui, Women may also receive mother-infant on the baby’s development.
partial hospitalization for women with interaction therapy and/or medication,
more acute symptoms, and inpatient as needed. The care team consists of For the past three years, Dr. Dhami has
hospitalization for women whose safety physicians, social workers, been a featured speaker at El Camino
and ability to care for themselves is at psychologists, nurses, and health Health’s Maternal Mental Health
risk. Each program provides a step down assistants. The program is designed so Symposium, which features
or stepped up level of care as needed. mothers can bring their babies to presentations by experts in the field and
“Our approach is to offer compassion therapy. When ready, patients are a peer panel of grateful El Camino Health
and humanistic treatment as well as discharged with a careful follow-up plan patients. The symposium is an
education,” Dr. Dhami says. Patients to ensure ongoing wellness. opportunity to bring maternal mental
come from a variety of cultures and health disorders into the open,
treatment takes their cultural norms and El Camino Health is one of just two disseminate the latest information about
values into account. hospitals in the United States with a treatment and related issues, and
dedicated inpatient unit for perinatal highlight El Camino Health’s leading
Women are referred by their physicians women. Mothers and babies can be contributions to the field. The next
or mental health providers, other treated together on the unit during the symposium will be held on October 8,
hospitals, other patients, community day, care that is not available anywhere 2021 and will feature a keynote
presentation on racial and ethnic
disparities in the treatment of maternal
mental health conditions and access to
care. It is underwritten by donations to
El Camino Health Foundation, and is free
and open to the public.
El Camino Health is one of
just two hospitals in the
United States with a
dedicated inpatient unit for
women with a perinatal mood
disorder. Mothers and babies
can be treated together on
the unit during the day, care
that is not available anywhere
else on the West Coast.
Scrivner Center for Mental Health & Addiction Services
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New Scholarship Program Established to Develop
Nursing Leadership at El Camino Health
El Camino Health Foundation is
establishing a Nurse Leader Scholar
Program fund that will underwrite
graduate school tuition for talented
El Camino Health nurses who are
interested in taking on healthcare
management roles.
Like healthcare organizations across
the country, El Camino Health expects
a wave of registered nurse (RN)
retirements by 2022 that includes many
seasoned nursing leaders. At the same
time, many frontline nurses express little
interest in assuming leadership roles, This year, our hospitals received a rare 4th consecutive Magnet designation, the
highest and most prestigious credential a healthcare organization can achieve for
primarily because they do not have the
nursing excellence and quality patient care.
necessary education and skills to do so.
Chief Nursing Officer Cheryl Reinking Because the candidates will carry out
learned through one-to-one discussions their DNP project or MSN capstone at
with nurses at El Camino Health that the El Camino Health with the approval of
high cost of the degree programs is the their supervisor, the scholarships will
primary limitation. provide immediate benefit to patients. In
addition, the nurse leaders are expected
The new Nurse Leader Scholar Program to submit research abstracts to local,
will provide full tuition for two nurses regional, and national conferences and
each year to enter either a Master of the acceptances will support future
Science in Nursing (MSN) or a Doctor ANCC Magnet® designations.
of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree
program at a local university. The Interested candidates will be selected
valuable knowledge garnered through through an application process and the
these advanced two year courses scholars will be expected to stay at El CNO Cheryl Reinking, DNP, RN, NEA-BC,
who is spearheading the Nurse Leader
of study “will most certainly lead to Camino Health for at least two years
Scholar Program, says the scholarship
nursing leaders who are prepared after earning their degrees. “Evidence recipients’ research projects will also
for the unique challenges of today’s indicates that nurse leaders who receive contribute to Magnet designation
healthcare landscape,” Reinking says. tuition reimbursement and achieve requirements.
advance degrees are more likely to stay
at their organization,” reports Reinking.
Please contact Senior Philanthropy
Officer Lindsay Ehrman to learn more
about opportunities to support the Nurse
Leader Scholar Program.
The valuable knowledge garnered
through these advanced two
year courses of study will most
certainly lead to nursing leaders
who are prepared for the unique
challenges of today’s healthcare
landscape.
6 EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDAT ION
FOUNDATION AWARDS NURSING SCHOLARSHIPS
In April, El Camino Health Foundation
awarded $22,100 to students
pursuing studies in healthcare fields.
Eleven received support from the
Norma Melchor Nursing Scholarship
Endowment and one received a
scholarship from the Arlene Reeves
Memorial Fund Endowment.
Tina Tran and Elizabeth Nguyen, two
Melchor scholarship awardees, are
first generation Americans. Fluent in
English and Vietnamese, they grew
up advocating and translating for
their parents and grandparents, and
observed the barriers that low-income,
non-English speaking community
members face when seeking healthcare.
Elizabeth Nguyen Tina Tran
“Translating for my grandparents at
doctors’ visits or the grocery store made
me realize I like standing up for people, helped them secure funding to print too, the scholarship relieves significant
providing a shoulder for someone to lean and donate 2,800 copies to local school financial stress. She is grateful that it
on. I hope to be that kind of advocate districts and community health clinics. will allow her to focus more on school as
for my patients in the future,” Tina says. They are now working on a sequel about she pursues her future goals.
the vaccine.
Those experiences resonated when Tina
“Translating for my
and Elizabeth interned at an East San Tina will graduate from San Jose State
Jose COVID-19 testing site last summer University in December with a BS in grandparents at doctors’
and saw children translating for their nursing and minors in public health visits or the grocery store
Spanish-speaking parents. Together and deaf education. “This scholarship made me realize I like
with some of their fellow interns, they lifts a heavy weight off my shoulders,” standing up for people,
created a fun activity book to teach she says. “It is giving me more time to
providing a shoulder for
children about the global pandemic. focus on my studies and will allow me
“In addition to being an educational to graduate debt free, which means a someone to lean on. I hope
resource, we wanted it to help families lot to me.”Logo
Elizabeth, who is majoring in to be that kind of advocate
better cope through this difficult time nursing with a minor in psychology, is for my patients in the future,”
while also learning the facts,” explains in her fourth semester of studies at San - TINA TRAN
Elizabeth. Community Health Partnership Jose State, with two more to go. For her
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Staying on the Leading Edge at the Cancer Center
El Camino Health has entered into a
memorandum of understanding that
will lead to a formal agreement with
Varian Medical Systems, Inc., a Siemens
Healthineers Company, to become
a showcase training center. Varian,
which is located in Palo Alto, “is the
largest radiation oncology company
in the world,” says El Camino Health
Radiation Oncology Medical Director
Robert Sinha, MD. “El Camino Health
is now guaranteed to receive the latest
technology Varian develops. We will be
a demonstration site for Varian’s other
customers.”
To date, under the auspices of this
agreement, the radiation oncology
department has replaced two older
technologies. Earlier this year, El Camino
Health began treating gynecological and
prostate cancers with Bravos™, the latest
The El Camino Health radiation oncology team proudly poses with Ethos, a leading
generation high dose brachytherapy edge technology that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning so radiotherapy
machine. “But the game changer treatments can be adapted to changes in patient anatomy over time.
is Ethos™,” says Dr. Sinha, which, in
April, replaced the Cyberknife. Ethos five hospitals in the United States and and can also be used for Cyberknife
uses artificial intelligence and machine the only one west of the Mississippi to treatments. Edge targets tumors with
learning so radiotherapy treatments have this leading-edge technology. Dr. submillimeter accuracy anywhere in the
can be adapted to changes in patient Sinha successfully treated the first two body and can be used for standard day-
anatomy, re-optimizing treatment within patients at El Camino Health with Ethos to-day radiation treatments that don’t
a few minutes to more precisely target on April 14. require artificial intelligence adaptive
the tumor. This is important when technology. Once Edge is installed,
treating disease like prostate cancer, Still to come is the Edge®, which Dr. El Camino Health will finalize the formal
for example, because the nearby bowel, Sinha expects will be installed in about agreement with Varian.
rectum, and bladder naturally change six months. This will replace the Trilogy
daily. “No other machines can do that,” linear accelerator, which is considered “We are now equipped at this hospital
he adds. El Camino Health is one of only the workhorse of radiosurgery machines, with technology that not even nearby
major academic medical centers have,”
concludes Dr. Sinha. “That means our
patients are going to get the culture of
caring we have at El Camino Health but
coupled with technology that almost
nobody else in this country has. These
technologies will allow us to improve
outcomes for our patients,” which, for
Dr. Sinha is the most important result.
“El Camino Health is now
guaranteed to receive the latest
technology Varian develops.
We will be a demonstration site
for Varian’s other customers.”
On April 14, 2021, El Camino Health became the first hospital in California to treat a patient - ROBERT SINHA , MD
with adaptive intelligence and only the fifth hospital in the country to have Ethos.
8 EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDAT ION
COVID-19 EMERGENCY RESPONSE
HOKA Running Shoe Donation Delights El Camino Health Staff
In February, Nick Kovaleski, director Urtz, general manager of A Runner’s
of operations for A Runner’s Mind Bay Mind wrote in the formal proposal.
Area retailer athletic stores, contacted This program is “an effort to thank our
El Camino Health Foundation, with a healthcare workers.”
unique offer. In support of HOKA’s
Frontline Give Back Program, A Runner’s In coordination with the human
Mind would donate one pair of HOKA resources department and Chief Nursing
One One running shoes to an El Camino Officer Cheryl Reinking, Foundation
Health worker for every pair purchased Executive Assistant Patricia Keil set up
at one of their three Bay Area stores for an electronic lottery for more than 3,500
a period of one month, up to a maximum El Camino Health employees. She got
of 130 pairs. in touch with each randomly selected
winner, then provided their names and
“We know that frontline healthcare shoe sizes to A Runner’s Mind. The store
workers in our communities have put donated 105 pairs of running shoes and
in a tremendous amount of extra time attached a personal message of thanks
and effort since the global coronavirus to each shoebox before delivering them
In addition to managing the HOKA
pandemic entered our society,” Eileen to the foundation. Next, Patricia oversaw running shoe donation, Foundation
the distribution. She even mailed the Executive Assistant Patricia Keil has
HOKAs to the employees who were facilitated the delivery of thousands of
unable to visit the foundation during donated meals to El Camino Health staff
over the past year and a half.
normal business hours and made a
special delivery to the Los Gatos campus. executive leadership, has allocated
For her, it was all in a day’s work. more than $2.1 million to buttress
our hospital’s coronavirus strategy,
The HOKA running shoe donation is one most recently for the purchase of
of many gifts, monetary and in-kind, that prescription safety goggles for frontline
the foundation has received from our healthcare workers and the high volume
generous community since launching vaccination clinic on the LinkedIn
the COVID-19 Emergency Response campus in Sunnyvale. The remaining
Fund in March 2020. To date, the funds will continue to be allocated as
foundation board executive committee needed and to further the vaccination
in consultation with El Camino Health’s and testing effort.
Armando Segovia
DONATIONS FUND COVID-19 MOBILE VACCINATION CLINIC
Thanks to generous donations from a Center of Mountain View in order to they go about their business. The first
private major donor and Google.org, reach the underserved population, who date was June 7 at Egan Junior High
El Camino Health has launched a will not need health insurance in order in Los Altos, an effort to reach newly
COVID-19 vaccination van that will reach to receive a free vaccine. Locations may eligible teenagers and their families
out to low income community members include school lunch distribution sites, before school lets out. Other potential
and ease access for local residents which serve lower-income students and sites include commercial hubs like
who are willing to be vaccinated if it is families, and areas that are identified Castro Street and the Mountain View
convenient. by the cities of Mountain View and Costco.
Sunnyvale, such as mobile home parks.
Hospital staff members are working “The foundation is proud and excited
with Sunnyvale Community Services, In addition, El Camino Health is bringing to support this important community
Community Services Agency of Mountain the van to heavily trafficked locations, vaccination outreach effort,” says
View and Los Altos, and the Day Worker where people can pop in for a vaccine as Foundation President Andrew Cope.
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Hope to Health Grants 9th Annual Norma’s Literary Luncheon Raises
$30,000 to Women’s $150,000 for El Camino Health Wellness Programs
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like to philanthropically support at El
Camino Health in 2021. The philanthropy focused on how she
council’s latest grant will fund additional came to write The Library Book, one of a society that builds monuments to
amenities to enhance the spa-like The New York Times’ notable books of stories,” she agreed. Together they
atmosphere at the new Women’s Imaging 2018. She then engaged in a delightful explored how libraries and democracies
Center, which is located in the Sobrato conversation with author Kelly Corrigan, relate to each other, and how public
Pavilion. host of the PBS interview program “Tell funding for them illustrate society’s
Me More with Kelly Corrigan” and the values. “Libraries exist as the portal
“Our goal is to provide our patients with podcast “Kelly Corrigan Wonders.” to knowledge and information,” Ms.
leading-edge imaging technology in a This year’s fundraiser benefited three Orlean explained. They provide a path to
relaxing, spa-like, tranquil environment,” El Camino Health wellness programs education and self-improvement for the
wrote System Director Joshua focused on lifestyle that meet diverse betterment of all people that encourages
Schreckengost on the grant application. cultural preferences in our community: meritocracy. “Part of the richness of
The grant will fund video art installations Lifestyle Medicine, Chinese Health the library is being in a place where
and an overhead music system for the Initiative, and South Asian Heart Center. everybody belongs,” added Ms. Corrigan.
waiting areas and exam rooms. “The Nearly 200 people tuned in live or Both hope awareness of libraries’ worth
aim is to complete environment elements watched a post-event recording. is growing today during the pandemic,
already in place that help patients when we cannot physically visit them.
feel less anxious before and during an Ms. Orlean opened by reading an excerpt
exam. Research shows that a healing from the book that described how she Like Susan Orlean, Norma Melchor, who
environment can decrease levels of pain, developed a love of libraries and reading we remember each year at Norma’s
improve patient moods and contribute to in childhood, which was nurtured by Literary Luncheon, was an avid reader.
more positive health outcomes.” her mother. As an adult visiting the Los She was a strong supporter and
Angeles Public Library with her own generous benefactor of El Camino Health
Hope to Health members pool their annual kindergarten-age son, she realized that for five decades and met regularly
dues to philanthropically support El she didn’t actually know how a library with her book club all that time. Since
Camino Health services for women and functioned, particularly a big city library. 2013, the luncheon that bears her name
families. They evaluate grant proposals “That to me is always a great curiosity – has raised more than $1 million for
from hospital departments and vote on the take something very familiar that I think El Camino Health programs that help
project they wish to fund each year. Since I know, and acknowledge that I really women and families, and it has been
2006 they have cumulatively contributed don’t know a lot about. It gives me that generously underwritten by the Melchor
more than $720,000 to support a variety itch and curiosity to figure out how this family as they carry forward Norma’s
of El Camino Health programs. thing works, what makes it tick.” Her commitment to the hospital. In opening
talk explored the powerful connection remarks, El Camino Health Foundation
“It is very empowering for us to feel that people feel to books and libraries, President Andrew T. Cope gratefully
we are not just giving money but we and why libraries and books matter. acknowledged them and paid tribute
are able to make a choice that will help “Libraries replicate who we are,” she to committee members Judie Wolken,
women and families, and make sure they postulated. “They contain all the stories Betsy Dawes, and Mary Scrivner “whose
get access to great care at El Camino that really matter to us as a community creativity, enthusiasm, and love for this
Health,” says Betsy Dawes, a founding and keep them safe the way an individual event were put to the test this year but
member. The more members, the greater really can’t.” only grew stronger.” Judie, Betsy and
the impact, and new members are always Mary look forward to celebrating the
welcome. For more information, contact Kelly Corrigan picked up on that theme luncheon’s 10th anniversary next year.
Special Events Manager Kirsten Krimsley. with her insightful questions. “We are
10 EL CAMINO HEALTH FOUNDAT IONLeaving a Legacy of Better Healthcare
for Our Community
“I have seen what the hospital does and
I have seen how the foundation uses
our donations to support the hospital’s
centers of excellence. I want these
things to continue and I want my money
to do something of value,” former El
Camino Hospital Auxiliary President
Mariana Latham explained in 2011,
when asked why she made a legacy gift.
Mariana had a decades-long connection
to El Camino Health dating to the
late 1950s when she watched the
Mountain View hospital being built. She
volunteered for the Auxiliary early in her
44-year career as an art and English
teacher in the Cupertino School District
and rejoined the organization in 2004
when she retired. By 2010, she was
the Auxiliary president, responsible for
supervising more than 1,000 volunteers
on the Los Gatos and Mountain View Mariana Latham
campuses. Her own experiences as a
patient in the emergency department Legacy gifts can take many forms. You than I give,” she said of her rewarding
reinforced her commitment to the can include a bequest in your will or service to El Camino Health and our
hospital. “I wouldn’t go anyplace else,” living trust, designate a beneficiary for a community.
she said at the time. One of the nurses life insurance, pension plan, or financial
who took care of her had received an account, or set up a donation that has If you are grateful for the medical
Auxiliary scholarship, which made her life income benefits for you, such as treatment that you or someone you
even prouder of her volunteer work. a charitable gift annuity or charitable love received at El Camino Health,
remainder trust. They allow you to meet you can help to ensure our hospitals
Mariana passed away in November your income needs, take advantage of continue providing world-class care
2020. Her legacy of commitment to our current tax incentives, and contribute to future generations by remembering
hospitals and the patients we serve lives significantly to the health and longevity the foundation in your estate plan as
on through her generous bequest. of an organization that is meaningful for Mariana did. Senior Philanthropy Officer
you. For Mariana, that organization was Lindsay Ehrman would be happy to
El Camino Health. “I get 10 times more discuss your specific goals.
Creating or updating your estate plan?
There are several ways you can
Do you want to help ensure the continuation of healthcare provide for El Camino Health
for present and future generations at El Camino Health? Foundation in your estate:
• Name El Camino Health Foundation
Are you facing decisions about retirement planning, capital
as a beneficiary of your will or trust.
preservation, and the direction of the assets in your estate? Please
• Include El Camino Health
consider including a gift to El Camino Health Foundation. When you
Foundation as a beneficiary of your
make a gift intention through your estate to the foundation, you are retirement plan or life insurance.
making an investment in your community – and providing the margin
• Make a donation to El Camino
of excellence necessary to sustain a caring, compassionate, and Health Foundation from your IRA
technically advanced medical center. when you need to make a required
minimum distribution.
donate.elcaminohealth.org/HealthyGiving 112500 Grant Road
Park Pavilion, Mailstop PAR116
Mountain View, CA 94040-4378
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