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Hospital on Target to Hit $80 Million

St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital has just received its largest donation ever. A former patient, who wished to remain anonymous, gave $5 million to the Camarillo hospital, which is owned by Dignity Health, a nonprofit health care organization based in San Francisco. The donation will go toward building an $80 million surgical center that has been under construction at St. John’s since September. The 71,000-square-foot addition will include 50 private patient rooms, a catheterization laboratory, three operating rooms, preoperative and post anesthesia care units as well as a redesigned café, gift shop and lobby. The expansion is scheduled for completion in 2018. “The donor of this very generous gift expressed gratitude to St. John’s for the excellent care she and her family have received and wanted to honor the memory of her father through a very significant naming opportunity,” said Debi Klein, vice president of philanthropy for St. John’s Healthcare Foundation in Oxnard. The unnamed philanthropist purchased the naming rights to a new operating suite and waiting room in memory of her late father, who was an out-of-state surgeon. Klein said that the foundation, which is spearheading donor recruitment for the project, has raised about 80 percent of what is needed and still has about two years to raise the remainder. As part of the campaign, the foundation offers naming opportunities to attract donors, which has become common practice for hospital construction projects. “Hospitals, through their marketing and public relations, will identify key companies or individuals who are of high net worth and see if they are looking to place their name on a building,” said David Fiorenza, an economics professor at Villanova University in Villanova, Penn. The hospital also has a paver program, where people can purchase individual bricks in front of the new addition. “In keeping with our theme of the 2018 opening, the pavers are $2,018, and donors will have three years to pay them off,” said Klein. – Stephanie Henkel

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