Palomar Health Foundation

While Palomar Health has been serving North County for more than 60 years, the Foundation was established in 1984 as a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization to support the programs, services, projects and growing needs of the healthcare district. The origins of Palomar Health can be traced back to two benevolent German women, Charlotta Baker Hintz, a nurse, and Elizabeth Martin, a dietician, who left their jobs at the Anaheim Sanitarium in 1933 to establish a hospital to serve the small farming community of Escondido. Using their own money, the women bought an egg and poultry plant at 125 South Broadway and converted it into a 13-bed hospital. Today, Palomar Health is the largest healthcare district serving communities in an 850 square mile area and a trauma center that covers 2,200 square miles of South Riverside and North San Diego Counties. In addition to three hospitals, Palomar Health offers home health care, surgery, skilled nursing, ambulatory care, behavioral health services, would care, and com