Two happy birthdays, 125 years apart

Today marks the last day of our year-long celebration of Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital’s 125 anniversary. Flashback to one year ago:

On December 8, 2016, Valentina Scarlett Rojas-Hoyos was born, exactly 125 years to the day that Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (SBCH) first opened its doors. There’s already a family tradition for both. Of Valentina’s more than 200 family members in Santa Barbara, more than half were also born at Cottage.

SBCH has grown a lot since opening in 1891. These days, Cottage Children’s Medical Center alone contains a 17-Bed Acute Pediatrics Unit, 22-Bed Level III NICU, 8-Bed PICU, a Level II Pediatric Trauma Center and the Grotenhuis Pediatric Multispecialty Clinics in Santa Barbara, Pismo Beach and Ventura.