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The New Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital is getting a complete update and renovation to provide patients a more comfortable and serene place for healing. Hospital staff, community volunteers and HBE architects collaborated to plan enhancements for this small, rural hospital.
- The Emergency Department is doubling in size to eight treatment rooms
- An additional 10,000 square feet is being added for patient care areas, including an updated imaging department with new equipment to include a 16-slice CT scanner
- Improved floorplans will improve access for patients and visitors and improve efficiencies for staff.
- Increased emphasis on landscaping, green space and private garden patios will offer patients, visitors and staff an improved healing environment
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The landscape plan features green space and flowering shade trees. Outside each patient room in the new Medical/Surgical Unit will be a private garden with an enclosed patio, offering patients and their visitors calming views of nature and a quiet place for respite outdoors.
Expanding in capacity and capabilities, the new Radiology/Imaging Suite will offer updated equipment, including a new CT scanner, to provide a wider range of diagnostic tests on site.
While the hospital is undergoing retrofitting, it is still offering complete health care, including:
- 24-hour Emergency Department
- Radiology services, including a mobile MRI on-site every Friday
- Surgical services
- Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation
- Laboratory services
- Nutrition services
- Inpatient care
- On-site visiting physician specialty clinics
How is the building project being funded?
- $5 million from Cottage Health System
- $7 million in new philanthropic support from the community
(includes a $1 million commitment from the Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital Foundation)
The Valley community enthusiastically responded to the need for philanthropic support for the project. A challenge grant from the Wood-Claeyssens Foundation -- matching donations dollar-for-dollar, up to $500,000 -- helped the Campaign meet its goal by the end of 2008.
Jan 2009