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Central Coast Hospital Gets Money To Add State Of The Art Technology

A Central Coast hospital has received a $2 million dollar gift which will be used to buy cutting edge medical equipment and technology.

The Marian Regional Medical Center Foundation will receive the money, which will be seed money for a new endowment to help the hospital stay up to date technologically.  The donor asked to remain anonymous. 

The nearly 200 bed facility was rebuilt less than a decade ago, and is well known for its cardiac care and cancer treatment programs.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.