KEEPING THE COMMUNITY HEALTHY
Our future includes a mosaic of exciting new projects that will support extraordinary patient care today and into the future.
New Health Care Initiatives to Keep Our Community Healthy
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ominican Hospital will proudly celebrate its 80th year of serving the citizens of Santa Cruz County in the coming year. The hospital first opened in 1941 when the Adrian Dominican Sisters came to Santa Cruz from Michigan to establish a hospital. Eight decades later, the 222-bed hospital treats more than 40,000 emergency room visitors each year and admits 11,000 patients annually. Dominican Hospital plans to celebrate the anniversary in 2021 with major new patient care initiatives to keep our community in good health. While seaside Santa Cruz has changed dramatically since the Sisters’ arrival, the support that community members provide to Dominican Hospital Foundation has not. In the early days, the Sisters would visit the wharf
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with a cigar box to appeal to local fishermen for funds to operate the hospital. Today, philanthropic funding remains a huge driver of expansion and innovation.
Direct Impact on Patient Care In Dominican’s long history, philanthropic support has had a significant impact on patient care. Each major hospital project or program at Dominican was made possible with the engagement and support of caring donors. Generous donors recently provided $2 million towards the hospital’s state-of-the-art Comprehensive Cardiac Operating Suite, a $5.7 million project to enhance the cardiac program with advanced imaging and
