El Camino Health | |
Org/Group: | El Camino Healthcare District |
Logo Size: | 200px |
Location: | Mountain View, Los Gatos |
State: | California |
Country: | US |
Funding: | Public |
Type: | District |
Founded: | 1961 |
Website: | https://www.elcaminohealth.org/ |
El Camino Health is a non-profit hospital with 420 beds (Mountain View Main Campus)[1] based on a 410NaN0 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, 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.[3] In 2009 it bought the former Community Hospital of Los Gatos and renamed it El Camino Hospital Los Gatos.[4] Land was acquired in 2016 for a campus in San Jose.[5]
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]