W.M. Keck Foundation Invests in New Emergency Department through Half-Million-Dollar Grant to Emanate Health Foundation
Contact: Christina Hong
The W. M. Keck Foundation grant will provide medical imaging equipment for the new emergency department at Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina
West Covina, Calif. — Emanate Health Foundation announced today that it has received a $500,000 grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to support the purchase and installation of medical imaging equipment in the new state-of-the-art emergency department at Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina. The new facility, which will include an intensive care unit (ICU) on the second floor, will help provide a higher level of care for patients throughout the San Gabriel Valley.
“The W.M. Keck Foundation is a proven leader in supporting health and community projects that will have a significant impact throughout Southern California,” said Emanate Health President & CEO Roger Sharma. “This generous grant from the Keck Foundation will have far-reaching benefits for the nearly one million individuals in our service area when we open the largest emergency department and ICU in our region.”
Sharma also noted that the emergency department’s larger capacity will allow the growing health system to serve significantly more patients at Queen of the Valley Hospital while minimizing overcrowding in neighboring emergency departments. “We are impacting urgent care services on a regional basis by helping reduce patient strain at other facilities,” said Sharma. “We are grateful that the Keck Foundation has endorsed our efforts with their valued partnership and investment.”
The Keck Foundation’s grant will specifically support the purchase and installation of medical imaging equipment such as onsite computerized tomography (CT) scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and X-ray devices. The proximity of this equipment to the new emergency department will save precious time in diagnosing and treating patients, who currently are taken to other parts of the hospital for such imaging tests.
The two-story, 60,000-square-foot project will include a new 60-bed emergency department on the first floor and a 42-bed ICU on the second floor. Before the pandemic, the hospital’s emergency department served more than 80,000 patients in a space originally built to treat 35,000 a year. With plans to be completed later this year, the new Queen of the Valley Hospital Emergency Department and Intensive Care Unit is expected to serve 120,000 people a year, addressing the local community’s most critical health care needs.
“Partners like the Keck Foundation are helping us achieve greatness by changing our trajectory to a regional health care system and taking our community health care to a different level,” said Sergio Hernandez, MD, Medical Director of Emergency Services at Queen of the Valley Hospital. “The innovative approach we are taking with the new emergency department will help us to effectively and efficiently care for more patients in the San Gabriel Valley for generations to come.”
The Keck Foundation is among the most recent leadership donors to invest in Emanate Health Foundation’s historic $25 million comprehensive fundraising campaign, which was publicly launched in October 2022. The campaign’s priorities include modernizing and advancing technology, meeting community needs, and endowment support. For more information about the campaign, visit emanatehealth.org/campaign.
About Emanate Health
Emanate Health exists to help people keep well in body, mind and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment. Emanate Health is the largest nonprofit health care provider in the San Gabriel Valley in California, serving one million people in the region. The system provides award-winning, specialized care in Behavioral Health, Cancer, Cardiovascular, Emergency, Neuroscience and Stroke, Orthopedics, Sports Medicine, and Women’s Health. Facilities include Emanate Health Inter-Community Hospital in Covina, Emanate Health Queen of the Valley Hospital in West Covina, Emanate Health Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora, and Emanate Health Home Care in West Covina, as well as other clinics throughout the region. Year after year, the health care system has been voted “Best Hospital” and “Best Place to Work” and providers are consistently among the “Top Doctors” in Los Angeles County while hospital services are recognized for quality care.