Mark Klein, a seasoned leader with extensive experience in corporate and healthcare leadership, has been named chief communications and marketing officer (CCMO) for El Camino Health, effective Monday, July 15.
Nearly 10 years before having the first of two hip surgeries at El Camino Health's hospital in Los Gatos, Tomi noticed unfamiliar symptoms. She'd feel aches and pain while getting in and out of her Mini Cooper — a car that sits lower to the ground than most vehicles. On other occasions, she’d experience discomfort while riding her bicycle to work or going for walks.
Every person's holistic health journey is unique, and over our 60-year history, El Camino Health has provided the expertise, support and care that people need to recover and live their best life. One of our most unique patient stories is that of Jian.
As a health system at the forefront of advancing the health and vitality of the Silicon Valley community, El Camino Health is proud to be the Principal Sponsor of the 2024 State of the Valley.
The American Heart Association was established 100 years ago by six cardiologists who believed that scientific research could lead to better treatment, prevention and a cure for heart disease.
El Camino Health earned an 'A' Hospital Safety Grade for both the Mountain View and Los Gatos campuses from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog that sets standards for excellence in patient care. El Camino Health is the only health system in the South Bay to have two hospitals receive the top grade.
El Camino Health is bringing together leading maternal mental health experts and advocates to share strategies and solutions to advance treatment, enhance access to care, and reduce stigma around the mental health of pregnant and postpartum women in the United States.
The El Camino Healthcare District and El Camino Health announced today that they will jointly grant $11.02 million to support local health programs and initiatives in the coming year.
American College of Cardiology NCDR Chest Pain - MI Registry Platinum Performance
Achievement Award recognizes sustained, high level performance in quality of care
For Nick, it began with a regular visit to his primary care physician in January 2015. He was experiencing an urgent and frequent need to urinate, and was treated for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) or prostate gland enlargement. At 56 years old, Nick was not concerned since BPH is common among men as they age.
El Camino Health has reached agreement with Professional Resource for Nurses (PRN), the union that represents hospital nurses within its health system, on a new three-year contract.
Mountain View, CA – Today, El Camino Health announces the launch of a healthcare innovation fund, which will enable the health system to stay at the forefront of new healthcare technology and continue to adopt the latest and best practices to improve patient care. The fund was made possible by a generous gift by local philanthropists Pamela and Edward Taft.
Innovative projects underway, include smart devices, mobile communication, artificial intelligence and virtual reality
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health has once again been named a five ribbon hospital, receiving top honors on Newsweek's 2023 list of America's Best Maternity Hospitals. The distinction recognizes facilities that have provided exceptional care to mothers, newborns and their families, as verified by Statista Inc.
Mountain View, CA – For the second consecutive cycle, El Camino Health's Mountain View and Los Gatos campuses both earned an 'A' in the spring 2023 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program, making it one of the only health systems in the South Bay to have two hospitals that received the top grade. The new grades reflect each hospital's performance primarily through the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mountain View, CA – After a year hiatus, El Camino Health has announced the return of the Heart Forum as an in-person and virtual event to educate the community on the latest advances in heart health, prevention, and treatment.
El Camino Health has been recognized by healthcare supply chain leader Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) as a "Best 50" healthcare provider for the second year in a row. For the past 15 years, GHX's annual "Best 50" award spotlights the top North American hospitals and health systems working to improve patient outcomes through supply chain automation and innovation.
El Camino Health is the first health system in the world to adopt FloPatch, an innovative new technology that monitors blood flow in real time. Developed by Flosonics Medical, FloPatch is the world's first wireless, wearable Doppler ultra-sound system that helps clinicians better manage intravenous (IV) fluid therapy earlier in the sepsis care pathway.
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health's Mountain View hospital has been named one of the World's Best Hospitals by Newsweek for the second year in a row. This prestigious award is presented by Newsweek and Statista Inc., the world's leading statistics portal and industry ranking provider. The 2023 awards list was announced on March 1 and can currently be viewed on Newsweek's website.
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health's chief executive officer, Dan Woods has been recognized as one of the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s Power 100. The Power 100 list recognizes the Silicon Valley's most influential business leaders and most powerful people.
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health's Mountain View and Los Gatos campuses both earned an 'A' in the fall 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program, making it one of the only health systems in the South Bay to have two hospitals that received the top grade.
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health has earned Level 9 honors in the 2022 Digital Health Most Wired Survey from The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME). The survey identifies and recognizes healthcare organizations that exemplify best practices through their use of information technology (IT).
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health is investing $3.3 million in grants through its Community Benefit Program to provide foundational support for local health initiatives in fiscal year 2023.
In April 2021, Renina's vision began to blur and she was struggling to read. The letters she had spent more than half her life teaching to toddlers were now difficult for her to see.
Craig enjoys staying active playing racquetball, cycling, and hiking, but in 2020 he started feeling sharp pains in both of his knees during his weekly hikes, and decided to see a doctor.
When Michaela walked across the stage to receive her Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) degree at the University of Southern California this past May, it was a full circle moment.
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health's Mountain View and Los Gatos campuses have received three American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines achievement awards for demonstrating commitment to following up-to-date, research-based guidelines for the treatment of heart disease and stroke, ultimately leading to more lives saved, shorter recovery times and fewer readmissions to the hospital.
Mountain View, CA – For the third year in a row, El Camino Health's Los Gatos and Mountain View hospitals earned five stars, the highest ranking possible, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The national average among hospitals is three stars.
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health has been named to the 2022 Fortune/Merative 100 Top Hospitals® list. This is the fifth time El Camino Health has been recognized with this honor as one of the top performing large community hospitals in the U.S. The annual list is published by Fortune.
Annual list recognizes excellence in clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience, and financial health
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health has been named a five ribbon hospital, receiving top honors on Newsweek's 2022 list of Best Maternity Care Hospitals. The distinction recognizes facilities that have provided exceptional care to mothers, newborns and their families, as verified by Statista Inc.
Mountain View, CA – El Camino Health's Mountain View campus earned an 'A' in the spring 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program, marking the fourth consecutive time the hospital has earned top marks for safety.
April is National Donate Life Month. In 2021, Donor Network West helped coordinate 1,156 organ transplants from 390 organ donors across Northern California and Northern Nevada.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC), has named El Camino Health an "LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader" in their 15th anniversary edition of the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI).
After delays due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, El Camino Health's Chinese Health Initiative (CHI) is celebrating a decade of service to the community.
Mountain View, Calif. — El Camino Health today announced that its Los Gatos hospital has been named a 2021 Press Ganey award winner. El Camino Health was awarded the Guardian of Excellence Award for Patient Experience in Outpatient Oncology. Award winners in this category have reached the 95th percentile for patient experience metrics each reporting period in the award year.
Louisville, Ky. and Mountain View, Calif. – Kindred Healthcare, LLC (Kindred) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with El Camino Health to create a joint venture to construct and operate a 52-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Sunnyvale, California, a city in northwest Santa Clara County. The parties have identified a potential site and are working to finalize the details.
El Camino Health is using its Community Benefit Program to provide foundational support for local health initiatives by investing $3.5 million in grants and sponsorships in fiscal year 2022.
El Camino Health is celebrating 60 years since opening its doors as a community healthcare provider in the Bay Area. What began as a much-needed community hospital created by a group of physicians and concerned citizens has grown to include two not-for-profit acute care hospitals in Los Gatos and Mountain View and urgent care, multi-specialty care and primary care locations across Santa Clara County.
HealthTrust, a leading Group Purchasing Organization (GPO) and performance improvement partner for healthcare, announced today that El Camino Health has signed an agreement for GPO and ancillary services and will join HealthTrust's member roster in the fourth quarter of 2021.
El Camino Health today announced it has launched an initiative to bring COVID-19 vaccines where they are needed most in Santa Clara County using a new mobile vaccination van.
The advanced radiation oncology technology, created by Varian, uses artificial intelligence (AI) to create customized cancer-fighting treatment plans in minutes.
El Camino Health earned an 'A' in the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program at its Mountain View hospital, recognizing the health system’s continued commitment to providing safe, high-quality care to patients.
Every year El Camino Health delivers more than 4,000 babies between our two hospitals in Los Gatos and Mountain View, California, and we welcome every new life into our community with outstanding care for both mother and baby.
El Camino Health continues to advance medicine in diagnosing and treating lung cancer and other conditions through new innovations led by Ganesh Krishna, MD, medical director of El Camino Health's interventional pulmonology program.
The El Camino Health Board of Directors unanimously approved a $149 million capital improvement project, which includes renovations and improvements to El Camino Health’s women’s health and maternity center - which houses labor and delivery, a neonatal intensive care unit and women's services.
Los Altos Hills philanthropists Pamela and Edward Taft have made a gift to support nurse engagement in quality improvement science, research, and investigative work over the next five years.
975 doses of the new Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be administered; infectious disease specialist who treated the first confirmed case of community spread in Bay Area among first to receive
Bloom Energy and El Camino Health today announced the launch of the University of Illinois’ innovative Shield T3 COVID testing system and mobile laboratory at Bloom Energy’s manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale, California.
El Camino Health earned an ‘A’ in the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade program at its Mountain View hospital, recognizing the health system’s commitment to providing safe, high-quality care to patients.
Symon is an engineer, which means numbers are often the best way to get his attention. In 2019, one number became particularly concerning to Symon and that was his latest A1C blood test result.
The El Camino Hospital Board of Directors has approved $3.7 million in grants and sponsorships to support local health initiatives in fiscal year 2021.
A quick shift in focus for both the patient care resources and human resources teams was needed during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to address evolving safety challenges requiring fast action.
Seeing community needs growing daily and people searching for life-sustaining resources almost from the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic compelled El Camino Health’s community benefit team to proactively ramp up efforts to provide emergency grants to help address vital needs and increase resources.
El Camino Health’s Los Gatos and Mountain View hospitals earned a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 5-Star Overall Hospital Quality Rating.
El Camino Health’s Mountain View hospital is the first on the West Coast to offer GammaTile™ Therapy, a new approach to treating recurrent brain tumors.
Biopsy via revolutionary Ion Endoluminal Robotic Bronchoscopy System by Intuitive identifies lung cancer earlier, allowing patients to be treated sooner than ever before.