USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation
The USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to help the hospital meet the health care needs of our local communities and beyond. Our work ensures that everyone who comes to USC Verdugo Hills Hospital receives patient-centered care in a compassionate and comforting environment that allows patients and their families to heal and thrive.
The USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation supports the hospital’s highest priority needs, including clinician training, surgical and diagnostic equipment, modernized facilities, projects that increase patient and family comfort and support, and a wide variety of community health education initiatives.
Donors can make unrestricted contributions to support the hospital’s current, most pressing needs or can designate gifts to one of several established giving initiatives or establish an endowment. The hospital’s current priorities include:
- Cardiac care and heart health
- Community health education
- Emergency Department services, including pediatrics
- Labor and delivery/neonatal intensive care unit
- Men’s health and robotic surgery
- Surgical and diagnostic equipment
- Women’s health and breast imaging
Philanthropic support of the foundation can take many forms, including:
- Outright individual gifts
- Corporate matching gifts
- Gifts of stock, real estate, appreciated assets or personal property
- Planned/deferred gifts
- Corporate sponsorships (Click here to learn more about our annual golf tournament.)
All contributions to USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation are used exclusively for the activities of USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization under the Internal Revenue code. Federal ID number: 95-3247823.
To make a gift online, click Give Now at the top right of the page, or to learn more, call the foundation office at (818) 952-2226.
We are grateful for your generosity.
Kerri Yoder Hubbard, Sr. Executive Director of Development
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Foundation
1812 Verdugo Blvd.
Glendale, CA 91208
(818) 952-2226
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The funds raised help support the purchase and maintenance of equipment, renovate hospital rooms, increase patient services and provide health care education programs.
USC VHH Foundation Annual Golf Classic
On Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, our 29th Annual Golf Classic went virtual and raised more than $250,000 for USC Verdugo Hills Hospital’s Greatest Needs Fund.The golf classic traditionally supports the hospital’s highest priority needs, which normally include clinical training, surgical and diagnostic equipment, modernized facilities, programs that enhance patient experience and community health initiatives that provide vital health education and support services.
This year however, these greatest needs also encompassed preparing hospital spaces to test, diagnose, treat and isolate COVID-19 patients, providing access to telemedicine, acquiring personal protective equipment (PPE) and caring for exhausted caregivers.
We are extremely grateful to our wonderful sponsors who remained loyal in their support, despite not being able to golf this year. To see a list of these generous supporters, click here.
Foundation Board of Directors
Fiscal Year 2019 – 2020
Executive Board
Tina Marie Ito, Chair
Community Leader
Marcie Sabatella, Vice Chair, Ambassadors
Realtor, Compass Realty
John Taylor, Treasurer
Retired, KPMG LLP
Emily Liang, Secretary
Sue Wilder, Immediate Past Chair
Community Leader/Retired Disney Executive
Board Members
Houry Aposhian
President and CEO, Pacific Horizon Bancorp
Julie Battaglia
Owner, Battaglia Public Relations
Jeff Blake
Retired Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures
Ted Clark
President and CEO, Royal Adhesives
Richard Cook
Chief Executive Officer, The Cook Company
Paul Craig
Chief Administrative Officer, Keck Medicine of USC
Armand Dorian, MD
Chief Medical Officer, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
David Elliott
Chief Executive Officer, DRE, Inc.
The Honorable Thad Gembacz
Retired Judge
Janet Hamilton
Community Leader
Becky Happach
President, USC VHH Women’s Council
Keith Hobbs
Chief Executive Officer, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
Kate Kaneko
Community Leader
Happy Khanna, MD
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, Pediatrics
Shareena Kumar
Chief Financial Officer, Oceans V Hotel Management
Donald Larsen, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Providence Saint John’s Health Center
Matt Merna
Chief Operating Officer, CHUBB Insurance
Amy Ross, PhD
USC Trustee
Chloe Ross
Community Leader
Kevin Tsujihara
Community Leader
Elvira Valenzuela
East West Bank
Staff
Kerri Yoder Hubbard
Senior Executive Director, Health System Initiatives
Kerri.Yoder@med.usc.edu
(818) 952-3553
Barbara Jordan
Development Coordinator
Barbara.Jordan@med.usc.edu
(818) 952-3543
Julie Shadpa
Associate Director of Development
Julie.Shadpa@med.usc.edu
(818) 952-3534
Deborah Weirick
Director of Community and Donor Relations
Deborah.Weirick@med.usc.edu
(818) 952-2228
Emeritus Council
The USC Verdugo Hills Hospital Emeritus Council is composed of former foundation board members. See the full list of council members here.