El Camino Health Named to the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® List
Annual list recognizes excellence in clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, patient experience, and financial health
Annual ranking introduces first measure of hospitals contributions to community health with a focus on equity
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ El Camino Health and its Mountain View, Calif. hospital have today been named to the Fortune/IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® list. This is the first time El Camino Health has been recognized with this honor as one of the top performing hospitals in the U.S. The annual list was published today by Fortune.
Despite slow start to vaccinations, Santa Clara County aims for herd immunity by August
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Austin De Lozando gives COVID-19 vaccinations to fellow first responders at the county fairgrounds in San Jose on Dec. 31.
Santa Clara County public health officials hope to be able to inoculate 85% of the eligible population with the COVID-19 vaccine by Aug. 1, a timeline that means health-care systems would need to push out 13,000 doses a day into arms.
In announcing the mark during a County Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday (Jan. 12), Dr. Marty Fenstersheib, the county’s COVID-19 testing and vaccine officer, acknowledged that it will be a “difficult goal to reach.” Nonetheless, the county will attempt to reach herd immunity by mid-summer. But even if health-care systems ramp up capacity and mass vaccination sites run smoothly, major concerns such as the amount of vaccine available, the constantly changing state and federal guida
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Dr. Daniel Shin, an infectious disease specialist, receives the COVID-19 vaccine Saturday at El Camino Health s Mountain View location.
Dr. Daniel Shin, wearing a dark-blue polo shirt and khakis, strolled into a large room on the bottom floor of El Camino Health’s Mountain View campus Saturday morning – a room that, for the indefinite future, will be called the COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic. He sat down in a curtained-off makeshift area with a big number “3” taped on it, and rolled up his right sleeve.
The infectious disease specialist stared at the numerous onlookers holding their phone cameras out, hospital staff wanting to see the moment and an official photographer feet away waiting to document the nurse about to inject a needle into Shin’s arm.