El Camino Hospital, the hospital of Silicon Valley, today completed its move into the new, technologically and seismically advanced facility. After completing several practice runs led by the activation team, hospital officials report all patients were safely transferred to the new facility. The older facility’s emergency department (ED) officially closed at 6 a.m. PST this morning as the new ED began accepting walk-ins and ambulance traffic at 6:01 a.m. PST.
“After tireless planning and preparation, the new hospital activation team successfully executed its plan to safely and efficiently transfer all patients,” said Ken Graham, chief executive officer of El Camino Hospital. “Thanks to their hard work and the efforts of all who touched this new hospital project, we are able to continue to provide the top quality care our community deserves.”
In celebration of the official changeover, Margaret Abe-Koga, mayor of Mountain View, and Liz Kniss, president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, will present El Camino Hospital with separate proclamations at 11 a.m. PST on Monday. They will also view a demonstration of the hospital’s biometric palm scanning patient registration system. Optional enrollment in Fujitsu’s PalmSecureTM technology is now available for each patient registration point within the new hospital.
“As a key provider of high acuity care in Silicon Valley, we count on El Camino Hospital to be on the leading edge of care,” said Mayor Abe-Koga. “This new facility has all the right tools and a foundation that will allow the hospital to both adapt to and influence the way care is delivered well into the future.”
Since the on-time, under budget completion of the new $470 million facility, activation teams have been moving final pieces of equipment and practicing “day-in-the-life” scenarios for the patient move.
“After spending close to two years experimenting with the mock patient room design layouts to create an ideal setting for our staff and patients, we are thrilled to finally be putting our plans into action,” said Diana Russell, M.S., R.N., El Camino Hospital’s chief of clinical operations and chief nursing officer, who led the cross-functional teams of medical professionals working on the activation of the new hospital.
Key features of the new facility include: