We’ve come a long way . . .

Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula has always maintained a vision of healthcare that reflects the needs of our community. A place where skilled teams of nurses, doctors, and technologists practice state-of-the-art medicine in an environment designed for healing. A place where our patients always come first.

It’s the kind of vision that made us one of the first hospitals in the nation to offer almost exclusively private rooms for patients. The same vision that prompted us to open a Family Birth Center in 1996 and a state-of-the-art cancer center in 1999.  And the vision that now is embodied in something we call the Pavilions Project.

If you have visited our hospital over the past several months, you undoubtedly have seen construction. Lots and lots of construction. When it’s all complete, the hospital will have two new patient-care pavilions — the South and Forest pavilions — and we will have renovated many of our existing facilities.

The South Pavilion, which opens this fall, includes a new Emergency department, eight new surgical suites, and a 20-bed Intensive Care Unit. The Forest Pavilion, scheduled to open this winter, will be home to 120 new, private patient rooms.

Please join us in this edition of Pulse magazine for your own behind-the-scenes tour of our new pavilions. We’re very proud to be able to make a difference in the future of healthcare on the Monterey Peninsula.

Steven J. Packer, M.D.
President/CEO