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El Camino Health is a non-profit healthcare system in the Silicon Valley and the South Bay, comprising two not-for-profit acute care hospitals, multiple urgent, specialty, and primary care locations and virtual visits to provide broad access to medical care.[1]
Notable Services
El Camino Health provides a range of services, notably cancer care, cardiovascular care, maternity care, mental health and addiction services, orthopedics, pulmonology, urology, and women’s health.
The Women’s Hospital at Mountain View underwent a $149 million expansion and renovation to its Center for Women and Newborns which was completed in January 2026. The expansion includes a separate Obstetrics Emergency Department, care for high risk pregnant mothers, 52 private patient rooms and a new neonatal intensive care (NICU) with private rooms, allowing parents to stay with their newborns.[2]
The Norma Melchor Heart & Vascular Institute at El Camino Health is a long-time early adopter and inventor of advanced technologies and treatments for heart disease including: preventing heart disease and stroke, heart rhythm and A-fib, stroke care and cardiac rehabilitation.[3]
In 2024, the Heart & Vascular Institute was recognized as the fourth best heart-focused program in California and one of America’s 100 Best for Cardiac Care for the fourth year in a row by Healthgrades, an independent evaluator of clinical quality for hospitals.
The Scrivner Center for Mental Health and Addiction Services offers a wide range of services including specialized care for youth and young adults through the After School Program Interventions and Resiliency Education (ASPIRE).[4]
History
The first hospital in the group was started by a group of Los Altos physicians who wanted to build a facility to be more convenient to residents of Santa Clara County. A measure to form a hospital district was put on the ballot in 1956, and it received overwhelming support to establish the El Camino Healthcare District, a separate governmental tax district which funded the construction of the hospital with $7.3 million in bonds.[5]
In 2009 it bought the former Community Hospital of Los Gatos and renamed it El Camino Hospital Los Gatos.
Since September 2017, the CEO has been Dan Woods.[1]
Innovations
In the late 1960s, El Camino Health collaborated with Lockheed Martin to develop a computerized physician order entry system. The system was implemented in the early 1970s and became the precursor to one of the first electronic health records.[6]
Cardiology pioneer Thomas Fogarty founded Fogarty Innovation in 2007 on the campus of El Camino Health. It is a medical innovation incubator designed to help startups develop their ideas and bring forward new technologies that improve patient care and lower healthcare costs.[7] The nonprofit Fogarty Innovation hub at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View has incubated scores of companies and trained industry and regulatory leaders.[8]
In 2009, Popular Science Magazine named it “the most technologically advanced hospital in the world,” thanks to advances in areas like robotic science, such as the “cyber knife”—a robotic type of radiation therapy used in surgery that can excise tumors very precisely, and can sense movements of the patient’s body like breathing and adjust itself in an extremely accurate way.
El Camino Health participated in the development of MitraClip, a medical device that uses a catheter-based approach to repair the mitral valve in a beating heart.[6] MitraClip has revolutionized therapy for mitral regurgitation and received Food and Drug Administration approval in 2013.
In 2014, El Camino Health was one of first hospitals in California to perform a new, minimally invasive aortic valve procedure using the Medtronic CoreValve System.[6]
In 2019, El Camino Health's interventional pulmonology program was the first in the world to perform a robotic lung nodule biopsy commercially.[6] Since then, El Camino's Ganesh Krishna, MD, has published findings showing that the use of robotic-assisted technology leads to more accurate diagnoses and more successful removal of hard-to-reach lung nodules.
In 2019, El Camino Health became the first hospital in California to perform bronchoscopic lung volume reduction, a minimally invasive procedure for severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
In 2023, El Camino health partnered with Fogarty Innovation and Flosonics Medical to pilot and later be the first in the world to adopt the FloPatch, ultrasound technology to treat patients with sepsis.[9]
Also that year, El Camino Health launched The Taft Innovation Fund with a gift from philanthropists Pamela and Edward Taft to continue investing in cutting edge technology and research to advance healthcare.[10]
Quality Care
El Camino Health was the first hospital in the Bay area to be designated nursing MAGNET hospital by the American Nursing Credentialing Center, the professional accreditation body for health care quality and professional nursing practice worldwide. El Camino Health is currently seeking its fifth MAGNET designation.
U.S. News ranked El Camino Hospital #16 (out of 413 hospitals) for Best Hospitals in California and #2 for Best Hospitals in San Jose (out of 13 hospitals).[11]
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Nguyen, Elizabeth (September 12, 2025). “El Camino Health Women’s Hospital Expansion.” Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
Diagnostic and Interventional Technology (June 13, 2024). “El Camino Health Cardiologist Earns International Award for Achievements in Advancing Cardiovascular Field.” Retrieved January 23, 2026.
Penner, Drew (May 1, 2024). “El Camino Health opens Los Gatos mental health clinic.” Los Gatan. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
Van der Kleut, Jennifer (September 22, 2011) “El Camino Hospital Turns 50. ” Patch, Los Gatos, CA. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
Cheney, Christopher (November 10, 2021). “El Camino Health Celebrates 60th Anniversary, Track Record of Innovation.” HealthLeaders Media. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
Leuty, Ron (March 24, 2025) “Medtech hub honors Fogarty catheter’s namesake with $100,000 innovation prize.” San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
Fornell, Dave (January 6, 2026) “Cardiology Pioneer Thomas Fogarty Dies at 91.” Cardiovascular Business, Retrieved January 20, 2026.
Penner, Drew (March 177, 2023). “El Camino Health 1st to adopt new piece of ultrasound tech as it seeks to boost sepsis care.” Los Gatan. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
Business News (June 21, 2023). “El Camino Health launches Healthcare Innovation Fund to further patient care.” World Business Outlook. Retrieved January 20, 2026.
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