HP Equipment Gift Boosts Labor and Delivery at Lucile Packard Children’s Health Services

Palo Alto, Calif. – Hewlett-Packard Company has announced that it will donate $1.6 million of medical equipment to Labor and Delivery at Lucile Packard Children’s Health Services (LPCHS) at both Stanford and UCSF. It is the largest equipment gift HP expects to make in 1999.

The gift includes 27 fetal monitors with maternal monitoring capability, optical imaging equipment that allows for the inputting, archiving, and retrieving of data at bedside, and equipment to streamline data collection. Terms of the gift call for LPCHS to pay 20 percent of the equipment’s price (approximately $320,000), with HP absorbing the rest. Installation, service and support are included in the grant, and HP expects the equipment to be fully installed by July.

According to Roy E. Verley, director of corporate philanthropy at HP, the company chose to focus on Labor and Delivery at LPCHS to significantly impact the outcomes for pregnant women and the 6,000 children born at Stanford and UCSF each year. Of those births, 24 percent are infants who require LPCHS neonatal intensive care services.

Says Verley, “It is our hope that our gift will help to bring Labor and Delivery at both sites to equivalent state-of-the-art excellence.”

This is not HP’s first gift to LPCHS. In 1991, Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford opened with a generous gift of medical equipment for areas including Intensive Care Services and Post Anesthesia, then valued at $1.9 million.

“We are deeply grateful that the Hewlett-Packard Company has decided to reinvest so generously in the critical services we provide to the region’s children and mothers,” says Christopher Dawes, senior vice president and chief operating officer of LPCHS.

The request for the equipment was submitted on behalf of LPCHS by the new Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health. The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health was established in 1996 to fundraise for Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, as well as the pediatric medical and surgical programs of Stanford’s School of Medicine. As of January 1, 1999, the Foundation expanded its fundraising reach by assuming additional development responsibility for Lucile Packard Children’s Health Services at UCSF, as well as the pediatric medical and surgical programs at the UCSF School of Medicine. This grant is the first secured by the Foundation for Lucile Packard Children’s Health Services at both campuses.

“One of our main objectives,” says Stephen Peeps, president and chief executive officer of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, “is to dramatically increase community gift support for children’s health care at both Stanford and UCSF. These two centers treat more than 10,000 of Northern California’s children each year on an inpatient and outpatient basis – many of them critically ill.” He adds, “We have been seeking some key gifts to raise the bar for other donors, and we are delighted to have Hewlett-Packard set a new standard for the corporate community.”

HP’s Medical Products Group is a worldwide leader of acute-care patient monitoring, cardiovascular ultrasound imaging and clinical-information systems for critical care; as well as services, support and supplies for the healthcare industry. The group has 5,400 employees and had revenues of more than $1.3 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP Medical Products Group can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com/go/medical.

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 122,800 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.