Adventist Health Simi Valley Fdtn

The Simi Valley Hospital Foundation is an IRC 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Our purpose is to support the mission of Simi Valley Hospital and Health Services in improving the quality of life and health in our community. We do this by:1. Building strong philanthropic support to meet capital and funding needs of the hospital.2. Ensuring appropriate stewardship by demonstrating an ethical and fiduciary responsibility to our donors and supportors.3. Developing excellent relationships with the community at large, and within the hospital in order to support our ministry of philanthropy.4. Working with community partners, organizations and volunteers.The following story illustrates how Adventist Health Simi Valley works to provide quality care for our community and why our Foundation has such a passion for raising funds to continue improving the care we can provide:Recounting the details of a traumatic event is never easy. Many of us have experienced close calls and losses that have caused us to feel fear, shock and grief.I had been experiencing the warning signs of heart disease,but I thought it was a panic attack. A week later, a stabbing pain hit my chest. I needed to get to the emergency room. My wife drove me to the nearest hospital, Adventist HealthSimi Valley, where doctors confirmed I was having a heart attack.Looking back on that day, I am reminded that if my heart attack had happened a week or two sooner, I may not be here to tell my story. The cardiac catheterization lab had just opened weeks prior to my event, and I was its first major save. If the cath lab werent there, I would have been transferred to a neighboring hospital and might have died enroute. Adventist Health Simi Valley now has two Cath Labs. More operating rooms means more lives saved, and more health issues addressed to elevate our communitys quality of life.Compassionate, high-quality patient care; life-saving and life-preserving medical and surgical services in a community-based hospital; essential emergency servicesthese are the reasons we are in the Simi Valley community.For more information on the work that we do, visit us at httpssimivalleygiveadventisthealt...