Your Unrestricted Gifts at Work
When you make a donation for use where the need is greatest at El Camino Health, it is added to the Foundation’s El Camino Fund. In December, the board allocated $540,000 of these unrestricted gifts to launch new programs and projects that will advance patient care.
- Human Centered Leadership in Healthcare Essentials Program – A nursing leadership development program that will help clinical managers motivate and inspire bedside nurses to deliver the highest quality care.
- Relationship Based Care Program for Clinical Nurses – A program to teach El Camino Health’s nurse trainers how to teach the concepts and principles of Relationship Based Care (RBC) to other nurses on staff. RBC is a transformational model and operational framework that improves safety, quality, patient satisfaction, and staff satisfaction by improving every relationship within an organization. The nursing staff voted to adopt it to modernize the nursing theory that currently guides their clinical practice.
- Orthopedic Education Day – Specialized training provided by the National Association of Orthopedic Nursing that will help prepare nurses who work in the Los Gatos Orthopedic Pavilion for the Orthopedic Nursing Certification exam.
- Motorized Endoscopy Travel Cart – Pilot of a motorized cart for performing emergent endoscopy procedures in the operating room, critical care unit, and emergency department that could potentially replace the heavy, difficult-to-navigate model that is currently used.
- Nurse Call and Vocera Integration – A system that will connect bed exit alerts to the nurse call system, trigger an alarm at the nurse station, and alert staff directly on their Vocera devices to ensure timely intervention for patients at risk for falls.
- Hepatitis B Screening for Medicare Patients Receiving Anti-Cancer Therapy – Proactively address the high incidence of hepatitis B viral infection reactivation due to chemotherapy by providing screening to 400 Medicare cancer patients, whose insurance does not cover it.
- Elemeno Point of Care Nursing Education Program for Perioperative Services – An app the will enable operating room staff to receive quick, timely education about highly technical new equipment. A previous Foundation grant provided the app to the nurses at the Center for Women & Newborns.
- Vessel Retractor – Purchase of an additional state-of-the-art vessel retractor for use during complex, high-risk anterior spine surgeries.
- Imaging Software for O-arm X-ray machine – Purchase of a new software feature for the O-arm X-ray machine, which is used for navigation and placement of metal hardware during spine fusion surgery in Los Gatos. The new feature will enable longer 3D images that capture more levels of the spine in a single "pass," providing better, faster 3D navigation, which means less radiation for patients and staff, and shorter anesthesia times.
- Virtual Nurse Technology – A 12-week pilot to test if incorporating virtual nursing technology to deliver tailored discharge instructions via bedside iPads can increase patient comprehension and expedite the discharge process.
- Fall Prevention – Funding to plan and present an educational symposium on fall prevention for El Camino Health clinical staff enterprise wide and also to provide fall prevention education through the television system to all patients admitted to the hospital.
- Chemotherapy Infusion Pumps – Funding to provide disposable, user-friendly, elastomeric SMARTeZ Pumps to 240 cancer patients who need extended chemotherapy infusions but whose insurance plans do not cover this equipment. The new pumps will give nurses more time to address patients’ concerns since they won’t have to process returned pumps.
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