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St. John’s Hospitals
VITAL STATISTICS
Our
PEOPLE
Full & Part-time Staff
1,887
Medical Staff with
spanning 50 specialties. I rooms; maternity, as well as operating and sterilizing rooms. A kitchen would allow for preparation of patient Volunteers
n May 1912 the Sisters of Mercy opened a temporary hospital in Oxnard. While they developed plans and raised hospital privileges
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funds for a permanent hospital, they trained nurses for patient care. The new facility would offer twelve patient
meals featuring produce grown on site by the Sisters.
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Today, St. John’s Hospitals – St. John’s Regional Medical Center and St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital – are
members of Dignity Health, a nonprofit organization, and represent the largest acute-care health organization
in Ventura County offering award winning care through comprehensive medical services and programs
St. John’s Hospitals welcomes anyone who enters, regardless of ability to pay. St. John’s Regional Medical Center Our
in Oxnard is a 265-bed hospital offering emergency care that includes award-winning stroke care and cardiac IMPACTFY16
surgery; modern maternity and childbirth center with a 16-bed neonatal intensive care unit; specialties, including
orthopedics and neurology; acute rehabilitation; and St. John’s Cancer Center of Ventura County. Babies Born
St. John’s Pleasant Valley Hospital in Camarillo was founded in 1974 by a group of community leaders, who 1,784
like the Sisters of Mercy, held the belief that a hospital should be available in their community. The 155- bed
hospital in Camarillo provides emergency, acute and intensive care, and extensive surgery services; and houses a Surgeries Performed
hyperbaric medicine and wound healing center and a “five-star” 74-bed sub-acute facility. A major construction 7,294
and modernization project is underway and will be completed in 2018.
That spirit of compassion and kindness continues to be the light that sets St. John’s Hospitals apart and is found Emergency Visits
in the people who provide care and for those who believe that a community should have quality medical care 82,635
available in the heart of their community. A grateful patient recently commented, “Though the medical care was
excellent, I was most moved by the concerned human beings who were responsible for my husband’s care. They Total Patients Served
gave me the confidence that all was being done that could be done in a difficult situation.” 160,187
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