St Helena, CA
"St. Helena Hospital will embark upon a $27.5 million fund-raising campaign to finance the radical restructuring of its facilities.
The hospital plans to add new buildings, technology and services over the next five or six years. The announcement was made during a Tuesday morning news conference.
The campaign, spearheaded by the St. Helena Hospital Foundation, will help fund just the first of five phases of the hospital’s master facilities plan. In addition to a $30 million price tag, the first phase includes a new building to house a cancer center and outpatient surgery center, and the relocation to an existing structure of a family birth center and a cardiovascular/peripheral vascular lab. In addition, a new electronic medical records system will allow patients’ information to be entered and viewed by computer.
The first phase calls for the elimination of only a few small surrounding cottages, but future phases of the plan will call for the elimination of the acute hospital building and the rest of the hospital’s structures, except the ancillary and medical office buildings. They will be replaced by new structures for an acute hospital, services, medical offices and parking.
“The hospital serves us great now, but what about future generations?” said Sutter Home Winery’s Louis “Bob” Trinchero, who is co-chairing the fund-raising campaign. “Medicine is changing all the time and we have to keep at the cutting edge. This will do it for us.”
In addition to Trinchero, the campaign will be co-chaired by Daphne Araujo of Araujo Estate Wines, Rick Jones of Jones Family Vineyards, and Roger O. Walther of Tusker Corporation.
Fund-raisers have already identified sources for $14 million of their $27.5 million goal. The hospital itself, in conjunction with Adventist Health, a nonprofit arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, will kick in $35 million toward the project."
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