Beyond Health: Your New French Hospital
Bringing world-class care to our community
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At French Hospital, we are dedicated to always thinking about our patients first. That’s why we launched the Beyond Health campaign, which will bring Your New French Hospital to the Central Coast. We recognize the immediate need to continue growing with our community’s everchanging health care demands and go beyond expectations to deliver world-class care.
Our vision is that French Hospital’s family-friendly campus will set the standard for excellent outcomes for everyone in San Luis Obispo County. So that no matter where that next turn takes you, we can provide more of the compassionate care you expect and deserve.
Our hospital was built more than 40 years ago, when our community was smaller and the practice of medicine significantly differed from today. As people live longer and patients become more critically ill and medically complex, health care is moving to a patient-centered focus with an emphasis on wellness, prevention and the intent to create a more integrated health care system. Your New French Hospital will offer patients a transformational care experience, bring new capabilities to the hospital, attract new talent and anchor the hospital’s campus as a core community place for healing and wellness. The $130 million project will break ground in 2021 and is scheduled for completion in 2024. The French Hospital Foundation is currently raising $30 million to
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Your New French Hospital includes: • New four-story, 85,000 square-foot Patient Care Tower • 56 single-patient rooms designed to increase privacy, comfort and infection control • New Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with 16 private rooms for our tiniest patients • Intensive Care Unit expansion with 10 additional suites • New lobby and Welcome Center with an expanded café and kitchen • Advanced technology and services • Holistic grounds, greenspaces and an interfaith chapel
