Eisenhower Health Foundation
Media Kit

"We are the only not-for-profit hospital in the Coachella Valley. We receive no funding from the state or federal government. Every specialist we hire, every piece of equipment we purchase, every clinical program we build — it is funded by the people who live here. The community chose to build this hospital, and they choose, every year, to keep it at the level their neighbors deserve."

"When Medicare pays 80 cents on the dollar, someone has to cover the other 20 cents. At every other hospital in this valley, that is a corporate parent or a government program. At Eisenhower, it is the community. That is not a vulnerability. It is the promise."

"Eisenhower was not built by doctors or government. It was built by people who decided they would not wait for someone else to solve the problem. Clark Swanson died in 1966 because there was no hospital here. Bob Hope and a group of philanthropists said: that will not happen again. They were right. And we have been proving it ever since."

"We are located on Bob Hope Drive, in a building named for a president, founded by the community that decided this valley deserved world-class care. That is not history. That is the operating philosophy."

"The largest gift in our history — $35 million — was given anonymously. The donor did not want a wall. They wanted the hospital to be better. That is the relationship we try to build with every person who gives to us. We do not sell them a recognition program. We earn their trust."

"We have donors who have given to this Foundation for thirty years. That is not loyalty to a brand. That is loyalty to a community. They give because this is their hospital, and they want it to be there when they need it."

"A woman named Maria sent us a handwritten note in Spanish. She said the gift was not much, but she sent it with love. We could have filed that note and moved on. Instead, we asked ourselves: why did she love this hospital, and why was she not already part of the community we said we were building? Latinos in Philanthropy is the answer to that question."

"The Coachella Valley is 42% Latino. Our board meetings, our galas, our giving page — they did not always reflect that. We are working to change that. Not as a diversity initiative. As a listening initiative. The community was always there. We just had to learn to hear it."

"Every dollar raised in this valley stays in this valley. When you give to Eisenhower, you are not funding a hospital in Nashville or a research lab in Boston. You are funding the emergency room your neighbor will need at two in the morning, the cancer center where your friend is receiving treatment, and the mobile clinic that is pulling up in Coachella this week."

"People ask why we need philanthropic support when the hospital generates revenue. The answer is that world-class care in an underserved desert community does not pay for itself. It pays because this community decides, every year, that it is worth it."