I’ve figured out about blogging: If you do it right, you don’t really need to write much…just point out great writing that others have done – such a snap! We’re so glad that the Mercury News truly understands Valley Medical Center, as their lead editorial today urging a YES vote on Measure A clearly demonstrates: […]
Starring Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson, I figured this Rob Reiner-directed flick would be well-acted, but shallow. Wrong! A poignient film with lots of good messages, I enjoyed it from start to finish. Oh – except for what we pro movie reviewers call a “continuity error” right near the beginning. Continuity errors make it difficult […]
Friends, I just had to share this fantastic photo of Valley Medical Center’s “new main” hospital. New, of course, in 1965. That’s when we’re quite sure this was taken. You car buffs can probably tell me if that’s correct. What I can tell you for sure is that for 50 years, starting in 1960 and […]
…your hospital better not. Judy is my neighbor, and her life was saved by Valley Medical Center when her house crushed her in the Quake of 1989. It seems strange to call Judy “lucky”, but that’s how she feels looking back on the hours after the second floor of her Los Gatos home landed on […]
When we redesigned the VMC Foundation website last year, we thought it would be fun to post videos on YouTube to show off parts of Silicon Valley’s biggest, busiest hospital. By “we”, I mean me and a couple of our staff members, including Michael Elliott, Director of Program Development. Our goal was to share some […]
Saturday, August 9, was an amazing day for kids with special needs who came to the VMC Foundation’s “Day In the Sky” event. Truly, I’m humbled that the VMC Foundation was even associated with this event…we were the main fiscal sponsors, for sure, but hats are WAY off to Dean McCully and Lisa Bickford who […]
This morning I read Time Magazine’s article on corporate social responsibility/history of capitalism, written by a man who knows (Bill Gates). It’s a very well done piece, with a national and global perspective. How the issue plays here in Silicon Valley is one of my favorite topics…and the timing of the article is amazing. You […]
Real emergencies happen every day…maybe not to you, thankfully, but they have – and they will again. Are you prepared? You may have missed this fantastic article in the Mercury News from earlier this spring, and since we have kind permission from the Newspaper of Silicon Valley to reprint it, I’m sharing it with you […]
Today’s Mercury News has done it, yet again. The alert reader of this blog is used to seeing us point out that the Newspaper of Silicon Valley does us proud…seems like every week there’s at least one feature on why WE ALL NEED VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER. How about two at once? First, today’s lead editorial […]
Earthquakes are a real threat. Yet, there are other ways that Santa Clara County’s health care system could fall apart. In Today’s Mercury News, Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital System CEO Kim Roberts puts it like this: “It is no exaggeration to say that Valley Medical Center is the cornerstone of the county’s health […]
