Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital (SYVCH) has been named the 2019 Valley Community Business of the Year by the Solvang Chamber of Commerce.
More than 200 community guests attended the event to honor area businesses for Taking Care of Business, said Solvang Chamber executive director Tracy Beard.
“On behalf of our staff, I am thrilled to accept this award for Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital,” said Wende Cappetta, SYVCH vice president. “It’s a privilege for us to serve this community and to provide medical excellence close to home for all who live, work and visit the valley.”
Since 1964, the not-for-profit SYVCH, 2050 Viborg Road, has been providing outpatient surgical services, inpatient care, comprehensive imaging (including MRI, CT, digital mammography, ultrasound, X-ray), on-site laboratory, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, and 24-hour emergency services.
SYVCH is part of the not-for-profit Cottage Health, which provides advanced medical care to the Central Coast region. Specialties include Cottage Children’s Medical Center, Level 1 Trauma Center, Neuroscience Institute, Heart & Vascular Center, Center for Orthopedics, and Rehabilitation Hospital.
The Cottage Health medical staff is comprised of some 700 physicians. In 2018, the Cottage Health hospitals in Goleta, Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez Valley provided inpatient care for 20,000 people, treated 79,000 patients through their 24-hour emergency departments, and helped deliver 2,100 babies.
For more information, call 805-688-6431 or visit www.cottagehealth.org/syvch.
— Laura Kath for Solvang Chamber of Commerce.