The South Asian Heart Center was created by El Camino Hospital in 2006, as an independent non-profit, to expressly meet the unique and unmet needs of the South Asian community. Its mission is to reduce the high incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) and diabetes mellitus (DM) by providing culturally tailored, lifestyle-focused, and evidence-based risk reduction techniques and tools to South Asians and their physicians. The Center raises awareness, prevents disease through screening, counseling, and coaching participants, educates and partners with physicians, and collaborates on research to address these health disparities.

El Camino Hospital is a non-profit hospital, committed to community health issues. In the mid 2000s, the hospital found that South Asians were just 3% of the population base it served, yet, they constituted a much larger portion (5-6%) of admissions to the Emergency Room. This was a matter of community health, and true to its mission, the hospital generously supported a group of South Asian physicians and philanthropists start an initiative aimed at addressing chronic diseases unique to South Asians. The South Asian Heart Center has already served as a model for the design of tailored solutions to healthcare issues for other ethnic minorities.

South Asians are people who trace their ancestry to the countries in the Indian subcontinent like India, Pakistan, Bangadesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.

Currently the South Asian Heart Center operates from the headquarters in El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, an office in Los Gatos and a weekly clinic in Milpitas. Additional locations are planned in 2015, for other Bay Area cities with large Asian Indian populations, like San Jose and Fremont.

The South Asian Heart Center provides all consultations and workshops online and virtually. You need to just virtually visit the Center to avail of its prevention and wellness programs.

Mountain View Location:
El Camino Hospital
Melchor Pavilion, Suite 302,
2490 Hospital Drive,
Mountain View, CA-94040
Phone: 650-940-7242

Los Gatos Location:
777 Knowles Drive, #17A
Los Gatos, CA-95032