Rancho Rising 2020 Celebrates Key Milestone

One of the great pleasures of our work at Hershey Cause is to witness progress and positive change for our clients over time. Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, a longstanding client and nationally ranked rehabilitation hospital, is undergoing a five-year renovation project that HCC coined Rancho Rising 2020 at the project’s outset. The needed seismic safety and facility updates will uphold Rancho Los Amigos’ future as a gem of Los Angeles County’s healthcare system.

The hospital’s leadership and staff, along with LA County Supervisor Don Knabe, recently celebrated a key milestone of the project with a “topping out” ceremony to mark the symbolic completion of the structural phase of the new Outpatient Building, one of the featured new buildings in the project. Rancho Los Amigos currently services 71,000 outpatient visits each year for people with a life-changing illness, injury or disability.

Supervisor Knabe and Rancho staff signed the final steel beam of the Outpatient Building, which was lifted and put into place during the ceremony. HCC invited select members of the media to attend the event and capture the historic moment. You can read more about the topping out ceremony in The Downey Patriot and view a photo essay in The Long Beach Press-Telegram.

And below is a video created by LA County Public Works, who is overseeing the work associated with Rancho Rising 2020.

“This is one of our crown jewels – a jewel that needed polishing,” said Supervisor Knabe. “I’m very excited about this.”

So are we!