Good Samaritan Hospital

Description

We are an acute care hospital serving Santa Clara County California in two locations our main campus in San Jose and our Mission Oaks campus in Los Gatos Through leadership in research and adopting the latest technological and clinical practices Good Samaritan Hospital offers excellent medical care for the people of Silicon Valley and surrounding counties

Good Samaritan Hospital is one of the first five hospitals in the United States certified by the Joint Commission as a Primary Stroke Center Readers of Bay Area Parent magazine have chosen Good Sam as the quotBay Areas Best Place to Have a Babyquot and quotFamily Favorite Hospitalquot for 10 consecutive years Our Inpatient Acute Rehabilitation Program is the only Silicon Valley hospital with a CARF accreditation specifically for stroke In 2008 Good Samaritan was again the only northern California hospital to receive the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer Good Samaritan is an accredited Chest Pain Center

The mission and vision of Good Samaritan Hospital is quotHealth care services are one of the basic necessities of humankind We are committed to creating an institution that brings competent compassionate care and comfort to the total person mind body and spirit Therefore we strive for excellence in the delivery of high quality costeffective health care to the communities we servequot

In pursuit of our mission we believe the following value statements are essential and timeless

We recognize and affirm the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual in our organization

We treat all those we serve with compassion kindness and respect

We act with absolute honesty integrity and fairness in the way we conduct our business and live our lives

We value one another as members of our health care team and pledge to treat one another with loyalty respect and dignity

We will demand excellence in medicine through continuing education stateoftheart equipment and facilities and fair compensation

The mission is shared with Good Samaritan Hospital employees volunteers and physicians It is prominently posted throughout the hospital and is visible to patients and visitors Planning decisions and actions are compared to the mission to assure that objectives and projects in the organization are consistent with the mission

History

Good Samaritan Hospital opened its doors as an acutecare hospital with a staff of 400 on September 22 1965

The actual planning and fundraising began years before when it became apparent that the growing west valley needed superior hospital services Members of local Episcopalian and Methodist churches banded together to raise the funds for construction costs equipment a chaplaincy and the hospitals auxiliary After two years of construction the new hospital dedicated to the whole person mind body and spirit was ready for business

Fundraising and planning efforts between 1968 and 1974 allowed the hospital to double in size By 1974 Good Samaritan had 403 patient beds and new services including cardiovascular diagnostic and surgical services intensive care coronary care and an expanded emergency department

During the 1980s the expansion continued adding new cardiovascular facilities familycentered birthing facilities oncology services and increased psychiatric facilities

In the 1990s the hospital added robotics a stroke team a level III neonatal intensive care unit and a helicopter transport Good Samaritan Hospital also purchased the 99bed Mission Oaks Hospital in Los Gatos to provide outpatient and shortstay services and outpatient cancer treatment