The soon-to-open St. Rose Dominican Hospital San Martin campus, 8380 W. Warm Springs Road between Durango and Buffalo drives, recently received a $1 million donation to help the nonprofit hospital provider group with the approximated $140 million expenses incurred for building costs.
The donation came from the Rendina Family Foundation. The foundation was created by Bruce A. Rendina, his wife, Marji, and their threes sons David, Michael and Richard in 1997.
"I feel very fortunate to have the ability to do something like this," Bruce A. Rendina said. "While I am very selective with where funds from the Rendina Family Foundation go, I cannot think of a better organization to contribute to than St. Rose Dominican Hospitals. This hospital is also close to my heart as my mother's name is Rose. This is a beautiful facility that has incorporated a tremendous amount of planning and thinking on behalf of their patients."
The San Martin healing garden all three campuses have healing gardens meant for relaxation and meditation will be named the Rendina Family Foundation Healing Garden.
"St. Rose Dominican Hospitals and all of Catholic Healthcare West serve as a model through their dedication to providing patient friendly hospitals and we are pleased to be involved with this organization," Rendina said.
The hospital is scheduled to open in early August.
The hospital will open with 111 beds, with each patient receiving a private room. Each bed will have a personal interactive television screen that swings from the arm rest.
"From the (interactive television) patients can watch television, check their e-mail, change the temperature in the room, order meals or watch movies or educational programs," said Mandy Abrams, communications coordinator at St. Rose. "We'll also have care pages. It's a Web page where the person caring for the patient can keep other family and friends up to date without calling people all the time. Everyone you give the Web page to can check it and leave the person alone. It's very good for expectant mothers. And the page never expires, and nurses don't get bothered either."
Something else unique about the hospital is that there will be a limited-menu Starbucks.
The hospital also has a chapel, which will remain open 24 hours a day.
The chapel is decorated with vibrant stained glass which is visible from the front of the hospital.
"It's abstract," Abrams said of the stained glass. "And everyone sees something else. All three hospitals have different stained glass, and they're all different colors."
Abrams said one thing that sets St. Rose hospitals apart from others is that they have color, beyond the white and beige.
"Patients and family members often point out the color," she said. "There are lots of colors and brightness. It's good for the patients and for everyone else here."
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