Netscape promoter donates $27.5 million to hospital

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Monday, November 12, 2007, 16:59

Nov 12th : Marc Andreessen, best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation donated .5 million to Stanford Hospital with a goal for improving the emergency department. Here is all about his noble contribution that he states in his blog, “..this is the first of many such gifts we will be able to make in the future. '

The huge money was donated to fulfill the below dreams of the couple Marc Andreessen and his wife Laura.

Upgrade a broad range of critical technologies, which will also include digital X-rays, ultrasound machines, cardiac monitors, tracking systems and the current ER renovation.
To improve the customer service, more staffs will be hired. The plan also adds patient advocates and a nurse call-back/followup program, with more residency positions to increase the number of doctors in the ER and to train more world-class emergency medicine experts who can lead similar programs throughout the world.
The gift will help in expanding research programs in areas such as wound care, heart attack, stroke, bioterrorism and disaster preparedness. It will also endow Medical Director position for Disaster Preparedness.
The fund will also be used by Stanford hospital for the creation of a new emergency department facility and ER within the new hospital, which will potential open in 2015.
The current emergency room of Stanford Hospital was built in 1974. It can approximately serve 24,000 patients per year. It is currently serving more than twice that number. Hope such noble gifts will pave its way from many other achievers like Andreessen to state a message to the world 'of not just what success can deliver but what it is for'

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Article Published On: Monday, November 12, 2007, 16:59 [IST]

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