DEPARTMENT LETTERS
MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDATION
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rovidence Saint John’s Health Center has achieved a major milestone: We are celebrating 75 years of delivering outstanding health care to our community. When the 1994 earthquake occurred—devastating Saint John’s—we weren’t sure if we were going to be open ever again. Because of our longstanding, steadfast donors and medical staff, we were able to pull ourselves together and began to look at what it would take to build a hospital for the future.
It was a blessing in disguise. In several short years we opened the first phase of the New Saint John’s and launched what has become a high-tech, high-touch, everchanging platform of health and healing. Recently we changed our religious sponsor to Providence Health & Services—one of the nation’s largest health care organizations. Our affiliation with Providence greatly enhanced our medical offerings and best-care practices with our colleagues in seven states. We are now part of a vast network, making it possible to share groundbreaking medical research and clinical trials. We are able to quickly translate our research into treatment protocols for our patients—healing what could not have been possible just a few years before. It’s amazing to realize that we are part of creating the future. Developing and
ROBERT O. KLEIN President and CEO Saint John's Health Center Foundation
instituting protocols for diseases such as brain cancer, melanoma and heart failure has saved many lives. We’re so proud. The other important part of our DNA is the people. Saint John’s has always taken such pride in its caregivers. From the nurses and doctors to the lab tech, physical therapist, maintenance crew and many others, our people are what set us apart. It’s because of these folks that we are the preferred hospital of the world-class Westside community of Los Angeles. We are Saint John’s.
P.S. Save the date: Saint John’s Gala Celebration will be held on October 21. Please visit california.providence.org/ saint-johns/giving/events for more information.
DONNA L. SCHWEERS Chair Saint John’s Health Center Foundation Board of Trustees
SUMMER 2017, SAINT JOHN'S
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