Free Virtual Event
The Hospital That Belongs to You
Inside Eisenhower's Community-Funded Model
A free 60-minute event for anyone who lives in, gives to, or cares about the Coachella Valley's healthcare future. Learn how community-funded healthcare actually works.
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What you will learn
The story nobody has told you
The model nobody explains.
How a hospital survives -- and thrives -- on zero government funding, funded entirely by the community it serves.
Where every dollar goes.
The Medicare gap, the real cost of care, and why every dollar given to Eisenhower stays in the Coachella Valley while other hospitals send their margins out of state.
The founding story.
How a heart attack on a golf course led Bob Hope, Leonard Firestone, and a community of neighbors to build their own hospital -- and why that founding act is repeated every time someone gives.
The spectrum of ownership.
From a $35 million anonymous gift to Maria's handwritten note in Spanish -- how every giving level sustains the same institution, and what "ownership" actually means.
What the next 50 years require.
The challenges ahead -- an aging donor base, an expanding community, a growing eastern valley -- and what it means for you.
Your hosts
Meet the speakers
Foundation President
[Speaker Name]
Leading Eisenhower Health Foundation with both institutional knowledge and personal conviction, bringing the structural data and relational warmth of someone who has witnessed the community compact up close for years.
Community Voice
[Speaker Name]
A founding member of the Latinos in Philanthropy advisory board, bringing the human dimension of what community-funded healthcare means in daily life across the Coachella Valley.
50+
Years of community ownership
1.2M
Outpatient visits annually
9
Valley cities served
I have given to Eisenhower for 25 years and I never knew the full story of how the model works. Everyone in this valley should hear this.
-- Long-time Eisenhower Health Foundation donor
Most people in the Coachella Valley do not know.
They do not know that Eisenhower Health is the only not-for-profit hospital in the region. They do not know it receives zero government funding. They do not know that every resource the hospital has -- every specialist, every clinic, every mobile unit on the road -- exists because the community chose to fund it.
For more than fifty years.
This event changes that.
Register now
Save your seat for this free community event.
Join Foundation leadership for a 60-minute live conversation about how community-funded healthcare actually works -- the economic model, the founding story, and why your support matters.
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Understand the model. See where your dollars go. Discover what ownership means.
This is not a fundraiser. It is the Foundation saying, for the first time in a structured and public format: here is how this works.
Reserve Your Spot -- FreeThursday, April 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM PST