Emergency Services: Vital to Calaveras County

Since its inception in 1951, Mark Twain Medical Center (MTMC) has been at the forefront of providing quality, compassionate health care to the residents of Calaveras County. The facility is a 25-bed hospital providing inpatient acute care, outpatient, and emergency services that also includes six clinic and specialty care locations.

To build upon this tradition of excellence and to support the community’s changing health care needs, MTMC is launching Service to Humanity, a campaign that will improve emergency services to the patients we serve.

Pardeep Athwal, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, and Doug Archer

“We're excited to continue our long-standing commitment to high-quality healthcare for the community by advancing our facilities and technology to meet the future needs of our region,” said Doug Archer, President and CEO of Mark Twain Medical Center.

Mark Twain Medical Center Foundation is inviting the broader Sikh community to support a fundraising campaign that will directly improve patient care at Mark Twain Medical Center and help celebrate the county’s growing diversity.

The Emergency Department is the “true front door” of Mark Twain Medical Center, with 12 percent of ED visits resulting in hospitalization and 83 percent of all hospital admissions coming through the ED for inpatient care and specialized services. Whether it be an accident, lifethreatening injury, or any medical emergency, the MTMC Emergency Department is the first line of defense for treating serious injuries and saving lives.

“We are a rural hospital offering comprehensive emergency services. We see it all from heart attacks, serious strokes, people falling off horses, or chain saw accidents. Many of the patients bring themselves here or are driven in by family members,” says Doug Archer, President and CEO of Mark Twain Medical Center.

The main goals of the $500,000 ED project are improving the patient experience, enhancing workflow and efficiency of patient care, and responding to the unique needs of mental health patients. The emergence of patient-centric healthcare design provides opportunities to create innovative design solutions and improve the layout, and upgrading technology is essential to enhancing patient care. Project construction is expected to begin in early 2023.

Honoring the Sikh Community

“Calaveras County continues to attract families from a broad spectrum of ethnicities,” says Doug Archer. “We would like to pay tribute with this campaign to Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. Sikh families have settled in the greater Central Valley and Foothills to the east and are leaders in their communities. The teachings of Sikhism are strongly aligned with the longtime values that define traditional life in our county and the caring mission of our medical center.”

“Years ago, the Singh family along with other Sikh families moved to our area to pursue diverse professions. As Sikhs, they set out to educate the broader community about the values of the Sikh culture,” explains Archer.

The Mark Twain Medical Center Foundation has named Jasvir Gill as chair of the Service to Humanity Campaign. Jasvir Gill is the Founder and CEO of Alert Enterprise, a national security, compliance, and access management company based in Silicon Valley. Before that, he was the Founder and CEO of the application security company Virsa Systems, which was later aquired by SAP. Gill was recently honored by the Sikh Chamber of Commerce as the Sikh Influencer of 2022.

Click here to read more about this campaign.

Pictured: Jasvir Gill and Charanjit Singh

Emergency Services: Vital to Calaveras County

Honoring the Sikh Community

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