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Valley Children's Healthcare
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| Valley Children's Healthcare | |
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| Basic facts | |
| Location: | Madera, California |
| Type: | 501(c)(3) |
| Top official: | Todd Suntrapak, President and CEO |
| Year founded: | 1952 |
| Website: | Official website |
As of 2016, Valley Children's Healthcare was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit healthcare system located in Madera, California.[1] Valley Children's Healthcare partnered with Stanford University School of Medicine and a number of community partners to provide pediatric care, education, research, and advocate for childhood health in the San Joaquin Valley.
Valley Children's Healthcare advocated for the health and welfare of children, especially through it child abuse prevention and treatment center. According to the Valley Children's website, "The Center has become a regional force in preventing abuse through its work with schools, parent groups, and other community-based organizations."[2]
Mission and vision
According to its website, the mission of Valley Children's Healthcare was "to provide high-quality, comprehensive healthcare services to children, regardless of their ability to pay, and to continuously improve the health and wellbeing of children." Its vision was "to provide the nation's best healthcare for kids and to become the nation's best children's hospital."[4]
Background
Valley Children's Healthcare began treating patients in 1952 and has grown into a 50-acre campus with 358 beds and 550 physicians. According to its website, Valley Children's performed more than 12,000 pediatric surgeries a year and sees more than 120 new cases annually in its Cancer and Blood Diseases Center.[5]
Valley Children's Healthcare was renamed Children's Hospital Central California in 2002, but in 2014 returned to the Valley Children's moniker. At the same time as the return to Valley Children's, the healthcare provider expanded its work into a health network with the goal to "improve access so that families and patients won’t have to travel more than 30 minutes to receive care."[6]
Work
Healthcare Services
Valley Children's Healthcare provided both surgical and primary healthcare to children from birth through age twenty-one. A full list of conditions treated by Valley Health was available on its website in 2016.[7]
Education
As of 2016, Valley Children's was a teaching hospital affiliated with Stanford University School of Medicine. According to its website, Valley Children's offered pediatric residencies, pharmacy fellowships, continuing education, nursing education, and outreach education.[8]
Research
Valley Children's conducted research through clinical trials, chart review, and capturing data for future studies. At Valley Children's, research was conducted in seventeen different areas of medicine. As of September 2016, the Craycroft Cancer Center at Valley Children's Healthcare was actively participating in more than one hundred clinical trials.[9]
Community Advocacy
According to its 2015 community benefit plan, Valley Children's Healthcare had identified the following issues as urgent priorities in pediatric health: child maltreatment, childhood weight management, community capacity, developmental disabilities, family support, mental health, primary care, community reintegration of disabled children, and unintentional injury. To address these needs, Valley Children's partnered with a number of community organizations, including Childhood Weight Management Task force for Fresno and Madera Counties, Fresno County Sexual Assault Response Team, United Way of Fresno County, and Sierra Vista Child and Family Services. [10]
Valley Children's was also home to The Guilds of Valley Children's Hospital Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Center, which provided comprehensive services to children and families who face abuse or neglect.[11]
Political activity
Ballot measure activity
Valley Children's Healthcare supported 2016 California Prop 52, which changed the dedicated use of certain fees from hospitals used to draw matching federal money and fund Medi-Cal services. The initiative also required a two-thirds majority vote of the California Legislature to end the hospital fee program.[3]
Overview of ballot measure support and opposition
The following table details Valley Children's Healthcare ballot measure stances available on Ballotpedia:
| Ballot measure support and opposition for Valley Children's Healthcare | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballot measure | Year | Position | Status |
| California Proposition 52, Continued Hospital Fee Revenue Dedicated to Medi-Cal Unless Voters Approve Changes (2016) | 2016 | Supported[3] |  Approved
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Leadership
The following individuals held senior leadership positions with Valley Children's Healthcare as of September 2016:[12]
Executive Leaders
- Todd Suntrapak, President and CEO
- William Chaltraw, Vice President and General Counsel
- David Christensen, MD, Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer
- Micahel Goldring, Senior Vice President & Physician Network Executive
- Beverly Hayden-Pugh, Senior Vice President, Clinical Operations and Chief Nursing Officer
- Natele Ponticello, Vice President, Human Resources
- Robert Saroyan, Vice President, Philanthropy & Chief Development Officer
- Michele Waldron, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
- Jane Willson, Vice President, Corporate Development
Recent news
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See also
- California Proposition 52, Continued Hospital Fee Revenue Dedicated to Medi-Cal Unless Voters Approve Changes (2016)
- California 2016 ballot measures
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "Employee Giving," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "Community Benefit," accessed October 15, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Yes on 52, "Our Coalition," accessed September 23, 2016 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; name "Support" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "Mission, Vision and Values," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "Our Hisotry," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Central Valley Research, "Children's Hospital switching to old name, creating Valley health network," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "Why Choose Valley Children's," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare. "Medical Education," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "Research & IRB," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "Annual Report and Plan for Community Benefit Fiscal Year 2015," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "The Guilds of Valley Children's Hospital Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Center," accessed September 24, 2016
- ↑ Valley Children's Healthcare, "Our Leaders," accessed September 24, 2016
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