Position: Board Member
Industry Sector: Healthcare
Organization Name: El Camino Health
Type: NFP, $1.19B annual revenue, 3,626 employees
Location: Mountain View, CA
These resources provide information related to the Audit and Service Review of the El Camino Hospital District, which was prepared for the Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) of Santa Clara County.
In the mid-1950s, when orchards and fields in the Los Altos and Mountain View area were quickly turning into suburbs and commercial enclaves, a group of physicians and concerned citizens banded together to establish a much needed community hospital. The few existing local hospitals were at capacity; hospitals to the north and south were badly overcrowded. The best and fairest way, they decided, was to form a hospital district and levy a tax so the cost would be shared over the population of the entire area.
Mental health counselors at the Mountain View Los Altos Union High School District noticed a shift among the students.
According to a recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there could be as many as 220,000 people under age 20 with Type 2 diabetes by 2060, an increase of nearly 700 percent.
Seniors remain the fastest growing age group in the U.S. and by 2030, Santa Clara County estimates that more than a quarter of all residents will be 60 or older.