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El Camino Hospital

Coordinates: 37°22′08″N 122°04′48″W / 37.3690°N 122.0800°W / 37.3690; -122.0800
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El Camino Health
El Camino Healthcare District
Map
Geography
LocationMountain View, Los Gatos, California, US
Organisation
FundingPublic hospital
TypeDistrict
History
Opened1961
Links
Websitehttps://www.elcaminohealth.org/

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]

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,[3] 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.[4] In 2009 it bought the former Community Hospital of Los Gatos and renamed it El Camino Hospital Los Gatos.[5] Land was acquired in 2016 for a campus in San Jose.[3]

El Camino Health has several times been designated a nursing magnet hospital by the American Nursing Credentialing Center.[6] 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.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "El Camino Hospital". Health Care: Best Hospitals. U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  2. ^ a b 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. ^ a b Forestieri, Kevin (July 27, 2017). "El Camino plans to open new clinic in San Jose". Mountain View Voice. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  4. ^ Kleut, Jennifer van der (September 23, 2011). "El Camino Hospital Turns 50". patch.com. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  5. ^ Weiss, Casey (April 16, 2009). "It's official: El Camino adds Los Gatos site". Mountain View Voice. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  6. ^ Forestieri, Kevin (October 7, 2016). "El Camino Health nurses reject new contract". Mountain View Voice. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
  7. ^ "Best Hospitals in California". U.S. News & World Report. Retrieved August 24, 2021.
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37°22′08″N 122°04′48″W / 37.3690°N 122.0800°W / 37.3690; -122.0800