Announcing the Melchor Family Endowment for Women’s & Newborn Services

June, 2025 - Honoring their parents and grandparents’ legacy of generosity and commitment to El Camino Health and the Foundation, the family of Norma and Jack Melchor has created the Melchor Family Endowment for Women’s & Newborn Services.

The funds will be used in perpetuity to advance maternal-child healthcare at El Camino Health, encompassing outpatient prenatal care, labor and delivery, inpatient antepartum and postpartum care, obstetric emergency services, and neonatal intensive care. In recognition, the Center for Women & Newborns will be renamed the Melchor Family Center for Women & Newborns.

Once affectionately dubbed “Mr. and Mrs. El Camino,” Norma and Jack Melchor were staunch supporters of El Camino Health from its earliest days. Norma, a former surgical nurse, joined the fledgling Auxiliary in 1957 and soon became its leader. She co-chaired the Citizens Committee for the El Camino Hospital District, which promoted the second bond issue for the hospital expansion, served four terms on the El Camino Hospital District Board of Directors, and chaired the Imagine Campaign for the new Mountain View patient tower. Jack founded El Camino Hospital Foundation in 1982, understanding the hospital would need the philanthropic support of the community in order to take the best care of patients. He served on the board for nine years, hired professional staff, solicited donations from prominent community members, and set in place a fundraising strategy for the first decade.

The couple set a leadership example with their own exceptional philanthropy. Their impact, which is reflected all over the Mountain View campus, endures. It culminated with a bequest that created an endowment for the Norma Melchor Heart & Vascular Institute in 2012 and today with the establishment of the Melchor Family Endowment for Women’s & Newborn Services. Norma and Jack’s legacy of generosity and commitment is honored and stewarded by their children, Kay Melchor and Greg (Alice) Melchor, and grandson Lane (Lindsey) Melchor, who serves on the Foundation board as his grandfather once did.